Huang Liang
Personal information
Nationality China
Born(1954-03-20)20 March 1954
Died23 December 1999(1999-12-23) (aged 45)
Medal record
Representing  China
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1977 Men's Singles
Silver medal – second place 1977 Men's Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1977 Men's Team
Silver medal – second place 1979 Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place 1981 Mixed Doubles

Huang Liang (Chinese: 黄亮; 20 March 1954 – 23 December 1999) was a male Chinese international table tennis player.[1]

Career

He won three medals at the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships;[2] a bronze medal in the men's singles[3] a silver medal in the men's doubles with Lu Yuansheng[4] and a gold medal in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) for China.[5][6][7]

Two years later he won a silver at the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) and in 1981 won a bronze medal at the 1981 World Table Tennis Championships with Pu Qijuan in the mixed doubles.[8]

He worked in Italy in the 1990s, and was diagnosed of esophagus cancer in 1997. When his health deteriorated, his family brought him back to Henan Cancer Hospital in Zhengzhou for treatment in December 1999.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. ^ "Men's singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  4. ^ "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  5. ^ "List of Winners". All About Table Tennis.
  6. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  7. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  8. ^ "Mixed doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-09.
  9. ^ "前乒乓国手黄亮回国治疗癌症". Sina. 1999-12-22. Retrieved 2018-07-06.


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