Ma Lun ( Chinese ex. 马龙 , pinyin : Mǎ Lóng , born October 20, 1988 ) is a Chinese table tennis player , three-time Olympic champion, multiple world champion, World Cup winner and Asian champion. The first racket of the world since March 2015. He plays with his right hand, uses European grip [2] .
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| Floor | male |
| Original name | Chinese 马龙 |
| Citizenship |  China |
| Club | Zhejiang ningbo haitian |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Trainer | Liu Golyan , Qing Zhijian |
| Height | 176 |
| The weight | 70 |
| Game hand | right |
| Grasp | european |
| ITTF Rating | |
| Highest ITTF Position | 1 (April 2010) |
| ITTF titles [1] | 37 |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 In professionals
- 2 notes
- 3 References
Biography
Ma Long was born in 1988 in Anshan , Liaoning Province. He began to play table tennis at the age of 5, from the age of 13 he began to train under the guidance of a coach, and later moved to study in Beijing .
In professionals
In 2003, he entered the national team of China. In February 2007, it entered the top ten world ranking of ITTF players. First took the first position in the world ranking in January 2010 [3] . At the world championships 2009, 2011 and 2013, Ma Long reached the 1/2 finals in the men's singles. Paired with Xu Xing won the gold of the 2011 World Cup in doubles.
In table tennis competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, each country could be represented by three athletes, but no more than two in singles [4] . Ma Long was one of the “victims” due to this restriction. At the time of the selection of Chinese athletes for the men's singles tournament (May 2011), Ma Long was 5th in the ITTF world ranking [5] . Despite the fact that at the time of the men's singles tournament OI-2012, the athlete took the 2nd place in the ITTF rating [5] , he was not allowed to participate in the men's singles tournament. He became the Olympic champion in the team rank [6] .
Winner of the 2012 World Cup singles.
By August 2013, Ma Long participated in 54 ITTF World Tour tournaments , in 25 of which he reached the final stage of the competition, and in 16 he became the winner [7] . In 2009-10, he set a kind of record by winning five consecutive ITTF World Tour tournaments .
Five times he won the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in singles (2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016) and once in doubles (2006) [8] .
He became the first player to win the Asian Championship three times in singles, while he became the Asian champion three times in a row - in 2009, 2012, 2013 [9] [10] .
2014 World Champion as part of the PRC team.
At the 2015 World Home Championships in Suzhou, he won the gold medal in singles. In the final, he outplayed his compatriot Fan Bo in six games, who, on the way to the final, beat the second racket of the world, Xu Sin, and the third number of the ranking, the 2012 Olympic champion and two-time world champion Zhang Jike [11] .
At the table tennis competitions at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, Ma Lun won two gold medals: in the individual and team standings.
For 2016, stands for the Chinese club Shandong Weiqiao [12] .
At the 2017 World Championships in Dusseldorf, he won the gold medal in singles. In the final, he outplayed his compatriot Fan Zhendong .
2018 Ma Lun began with a victory in the platinum tournament " 2018 ITTF World Tour " in Bremen . In June 2018, Ma Long won the China Open 2018 Platinum Tournament ITTF World Tour in Shenzhen [13] .
In 2019, after a sufficiently long break in the game due to injury, Ma Long returns to the ITTF World Tour games and wins singles at the 2019 ITTF World Tour platinum tournament in Qatar . This victory allows Ma Lun to share the first line with the Belarusian athlete Vladimir Samsonov in the number of singles wins at the ITTF World Tour stages (27 wins) [14] , and in June 2019, after winning the singles at the ITTF World stage Tour ”“ China Open ”Ma Lung is ranked first in the world by this indicator [15] .
At the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, he won two gold medals: in the doubles category, together with compatriot Van Chutsin , and singles. In the singles final, he beat the Swedish player Matthias Falk .
Notes
- ↑ Singles victories in ITTF sponsored competitions: World Cup, World Cup, ITTF World Tour , ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
- ↑ Ma Lun: player profile . ITTF official website. Date of treatment May 23, 2013. Archived May 26, 2013.
- ↑ Ma Lun: ITTF World Ranking (Link not available) . ITTF official website. Date of treatment May 23, 2013. Archived May 26, 2013.
- ↑ Table Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics # Qualification
- ↑ 1 2 Ma Long: Athlete Rating according to ITTF. (unavailable link) (eng.)
- ↑ Ma Long - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- ↑ Ian Marshall. Ma Long Wins Again in China and Completes Hat-Trick of Suzhou Titles . ITTF official website (18 August 2013). Date of treatment August 15, 2013. Archived on September 1, 2013.
- ↑ Ma Lun: statistics (English) (inaccessible link) . ITTF official website. Date of treatment May 23, 2013. Archived May 26, 2013.
- ↑ Wikipedia Asian Table Tennis Championships
- ↑ Ma Long Once Again Champion of Asia, Three in a Row (inaccessible link) . The official site of ATTU (July 17, 2013). Date of treatment July 28, 2013. Archived September 1, 2013.
- ↑ Ma Long became the world champion in the men's singles . Sport Express (05/03/2015). Date of treatment April 28, 2015.
- ↑ Chinese Super League: Fifteenth Round
- ↑ Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Platinum, Kaisa China Open
- ↑ All hail Ma Long, the Comeback King of Qatar! (eng.) . ITTF official website. Date of treatment March 31, 2019.
- ↑ Record-breaker! Ma Long wins 28th career ITTF World Tour title
Links
- Ma Luna profile on ITTF official website
- The dynamics of the world ranking of Ma Luna on the official website of ITTF (eng.)
- Ma Long - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com