FAN Zhendong

People's Republic of China

Date of Birth: 22 Jan 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: GUANGZHOU

Birth Country:

People's Republic of China

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Table Tennis	Men's Singles	2
	Men's Team CHN China	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3	Men's Singles Round 3 #34 CHN FAN ZFAN Zhendong 4 FRA LEBESSON ELEBESSON Emmanuel 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Singles Round of 16 #50 CHN FAN ZFAN Zhendong 4 POR FREITAS MFREITAS Marcos 1	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Singles Quarterfinal #58 CHN FAN ZFAN Zhendong 4 KOR JEOUNG YJEOUNG Youngsik 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Singles Semifinal #62 CHN FAN ZFAN Zhendong 4 TPE LIN YJLIN Yun Ju 3	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Singles Gold Medal Match #65 CHN FAN ZFAN Zhendong 2 CHN MA LMA Long 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Team Round of 16 #1 CHN China 3 EGY Egypt 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Team Quarterfinal #9 CHN China 3 FRA France 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Team Semifinal #13 CHN China 3 KOR Republic of Korea 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Men's Team Gold Medal Team Match #16 CHN China 3 GER Germany 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team X
2014	Nanjing, CHN	1	1

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Doubles X	Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	4R	-	3	-
2018	Halmstad, SWE	-	-	-	1
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	2	1	-	-
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	-	1
2015	Suzhou, CHN	3	2	-	-
2014	Tokyo, JPN	-	-	-	1
2013	Paris, FRA	3R	-	-	-

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Weihai, CHN	1
2019	Chengdu, CHN	1
2018	Paris, FRA	1
2016	Saarbrucken, GER	1

Asian Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2018	Indonesia	1	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Team
2019	Yogyakarta, INA	3	2	1
2017	Wuxi, CHN	1	1	1

ITTF Finals

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M
2020	Zhengzhou, CHN	2	-
2019	Zhengzhou, CHN	1	1
2018	Incheon, KOR	QF	-
2017	Astana, KAZ	1	-
2016	Doha, QAT	2	-

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2020	Singles	1x	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2020	Doubles M	-	-	1x	1x	-	-	-
2019	Singles	2x	-	3x	2x	1x	-	-
2019	Doubles M	3x	1x	2x	-	1x	-	-
2019	Doubles X	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2018	Singles	3x	1x	1x	-	-	-	-
2018	Doubles M	3x	-	-	1x	1x	-	-
2017	Singles	-	3x	1x	-	1x	-	-
2017	Doubles M	1x	-	2x	2x	-	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Singles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2019	Singles	Austrian Open	Linz, AUT
1	2019	Singles	German Open	Bremen, GER
1	2019	Doubles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
1	2019	Doubles	Korea Open	Busan, KOR
1	2019	Doubles	Japan Open	Sapporo, JPN
1	2018	Singles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
1	2018	Singles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2018	Singles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN
1	2018	Doubles	China Open	Shenzhen, CHN
1	2018	Doubles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2018	Doubles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN
1	2017	Doubles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 4R - 4th Round, 3R - 3rd Round, 2R - 2nd Round, 1R - 1st Round, Prel. Rnd - Preliminary Round, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Xiao Pang [Little Fatty], Brother Dong (sports.sina.com.cn, 02 Sep 2018; sports.sina.cn, 08 Sep 2019; olympics.com, 27 May 2021)

Watching television, playing mobile phone games, singing Cantonese songs. (sports.sina.com.cn, 14 Apr 2018; olympics.com, 27 May 2021)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Guangdong Province [People's Republic of China]

Qin Zhijian [national], CHN; Wang Hao [national], CHN

Right (tabletennista.com, 20 May 2014)

2013 for People's Republic of China (tabletennista.com, 10 Jul 2014)

National team:

2012 (olympics.com, 27 May 2021)

He took up the sport at age five. (stigatabletennis.com, 28 Mar 2014)

His parents thought playing table tennis would improve his health, and that if he became good enough to join the school sports team he would be exempt from tuition fees. (sports.qianlong.com, 30 Dec 2013)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and to compete at the 2021 National Games of the People's Republic of China in Shaanxi. (olympics.com, 06 May 2021; news.dayoo.com, 17 Mar 2021)

Belarusian table tennis player Vladimir Samsonov. (stigatabletennis.com, 28 Mar 2014)

General Interest

Grip
Shakehand (ITTF, 26 Apr 2015)

Style of play
Attack (ITTF, 26 Apr 2015)

Milestones

He became the first table tennis player to win three consecutive World Cup titles, when he was victorious at the 2020 World Cup in Weihai, People's Republic of China. With the win he also equalled his Chinese compatriot Ma Lin's record for the most World Cup titles [four] won by a male player, after he also claimed gold in 2016, 2018 and 2019. (tokyo2020.org, 16 Nov 2020; ittf.com, 15 Nov 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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