Fan Zhendong, a native of Qidong County, Hunan Province, was born in Guangzhou on 19971October 22nd. Fan Zhendong's father graduated from South China University of Technology. Before going to school, Fan Zhendong's parents heard that there was a sports team in primary school, and they could reduce some tuition fees, so they signed him up and asked him to go to the Children's Palace to learn table tennis.
In 2004, Fan Zhendong represented the Children's Palace in Haizhu District to participate in the "Miaoxin Cup" youth table tennis competition and won the first place in the men's team in Miao Xin. In 2006, over 9 years old, he was selected to Guangzhou Sports Vocational and Technical College (formerly Weilun Sports School) to continue studying table tennis.
On September 6, 2023, the press conference on the theme of the torch relay of Hangzhou 19 Asian Games was held in the main media center of Hangzhou 19 Asian Games. The list of torchbearers was announced at the press conference, and Fan Zhendong was among them.
Fan Zhendong's sports career:
20/kloc-in February, he joined the Chinese national table tennis team; In February 65438, he won the men's singles, mixed doubles and men's team in the table tennis World Youth Championship. On September 20 13, he won the men's team, men's doubles champion and men's singles runner-up in 12 National Games; In June, 1 1, Fan Zhendong became the youngest men's singles champion in the history of ITTF Tour.
20 14 On May 5th, Fan Zhendong won the world championship with a score of 17 years old 103 days, surpassing Malone and becoming the youngest world champion in the history of men's table tennis. In August, he won the men's singles table tennis championship in the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games and became a Grand Slam player who completed the world's top youth table tennis competition.
20 16 10, the men's singles final of the men's world cup table tennis tournament, won the first singles champion of the world three major competitions in his career. 2065438+In February 2008, he won the Best Male Athlete of 2065438+2008 from ITTF. 20 19 12, the men's singles champion of ITTF Tour Finals. June 2020165438+1October, won the men's table tennis World Cup for three consecutive times and topped the World Cup for the fourth time.
July, 20021year, runner-up in men's singles and champion of men's team in Tokyo Olympic Games; In September, he won the first national games singles gold medal in his career; 1 1 month, won the men's singles championship in the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. In March 2022, he won the first WTT Grand Slam men's singles championship; 165438+ 10, Fan Zhendong won the national championship and became the first "quadruple champion" in men's singles history.
In March 2023, he successfully defended the WTT Grand Slam men's singles champion; In April, he won the men's singles championship in 2023WTT Xinxiang Championship; In May, she successfully defended the men's singles champion in Durban World Table Tennis Championships, achieving ten consecutive championships for China, becoming the eighth player in history and the seventh player in China to defend the men's singles champion in the World Table Tennis Championships.