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Wang Chuqin
🇨🇳 Professional Table Tennis Player | World No. 1 (ITTF, 2025)
Born
May 11, 2000
Jilin, China
Playing Style
Left-handed
Shakehand grip
World Ranking
No. 1
ITTF (2025)
Club
Shandong
CTTSL
🥇 Olympic Titles — Paris 2024
- Mixed Doubles Gold — with Sun Yingsha
- Team Gold — with Ma Long and Fan Zhendong
Career Highlights
- Double gold medalist — 2018 Youth Olympic Games
- 2022 WTT Cup Finals — Singles winner (Xinxiang)
- 2023 World Championships — Singles champion (Doha), beat Fan Zhendong
- 2024 Paris Olympics — Mixed doubles & team golds
- 2025 WTT Champions Chongqing — Champion; re-assumed world No. 1 ranking
- 2025 CTTSL — 4th straight Super League title with Shandong
Off the Court
In 2025, Wang entered a master’s program at Peking University and had been lauded as a “master of time management.” He has spoken up against invasive fans, calling on them to respect an athlete’s privacy.
He became the first Chinese athlete to grace the cover of L’Officiel Hommes‘s anniversary edition in 2025, photographed inside Beijing’s Forbidden City.
Profile last updated: 2025