YAN Xin

Date of Birth: 9 Dec 1988

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Place of birth: XIAN

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	49
	Men's Team AUS Australia	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 4	Men's Singles Round 1 #7 ROU IONESCU OIONESCU Ovidiu 4 AUS YAN XYAN Xin 1	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Men's Team Round of 16 #5 JPN Japan 3 AUS Australia 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Prel. Rnd	1R

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Doubles X	Team
2018	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	1	1	1	1

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2017	Doubles M	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
Quarterfinal	2017	Doubles	Australian Open	Brisbane, QLD, AUS

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

Chris (tabletennis.org.au, 24 Mar 2014)

Previous names:

Watching movies. (gc2018.com, 01 Jan 2018)

Translation/interpretation - Sydney Institute of Interpreting and Translating, Australia

Languages spoken:

English, Mandarin

John Murphy [national], IRL

Sporting relatives:

His wife Ziyu Zhang has represented Australia in table tennis and competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Table Tennis Australia Facebook page, 31 Oct 2017; SportsDeskOnline, 03 Mar 2020)

2014 for Australia, Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Great Britain (Athlete, 24 Jul 2014)

He began playing table tennis in 1997 in Xi'an, People's Republic of China. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2014)

He took up the sport for fun. "Back at home in China, there was a table made out of concrete near my home. I used to see other people play and then asked my father to take me to learn." (Athlete, 24 Jul 2014; gc2018.com, 12 Jan 2018)

Chinese table tennis player Wang Hao, and his parents. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2014, gc2018.com, 12 Jan 2018)

His father. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2014)

Philosophy:

"Never give up." (Athlete, 24 Jul 2014)

General Interest

General
MOVE TO AUSTRALIA
He moved to Australia at age 21 to study at university. A friend later encouraged him to try to gain selection for the Australia national table tennis team. "If I stayed in China, I may never have had the chance to play in the Olympics." (rio2016.olympics.com.au, 31 Mar 2016; sbs.com.au, 07 Apr 2016)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/xin.yan.50767984

Legend

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

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