The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Taiwan
This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 16th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Portugal, and Ukraine.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Chuang Chih-yuan (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 42.77, Chuang Chih-yuan is the most famous Taiwanese Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Chuang Chih-yuan (Chinese: 莊智淵; pinyin: Zhuāng Zhìyuān; born 2 April 1981) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He won the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2002 and doubles title at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships. He participated in the Summer Olympics six times, making the most appearances at the Olympic Games among Taiwanese athletes.
2. Chen Chien-an (b. 1991)
With an HPI of 31.78, Chen Chien-an is the 2nd most famous Taiwanese Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 9 different languages.
Chen Chien-an (Chinese: 陳建安; born 16 June 1991) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He won the 2008 World Junior Table Tennis Championships in singles. In May 2013, in the 52nd World Table Tennis Championships held in Paris, France, Chen Chien-an and Chuang Chih-yuan defeated Hao Shuai and Ma Lin 9–11, 12–10, 11–6, 13–11, 9–11, 11–8 in the final, and won Men's Doubles title. Chuang and Chen became the first athletes in Taiwan to win any World Table Tennis Championships title. Chen Chien-an is sponsored by the German table tennis brand TIBHAR.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Taiwanese table tennis players born between 1981 and 1991. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Taiwanese table tennis players include Chuang Chih-yuan, and Chen Chien-an. As of April 2024, 2 new Taiwanese table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Chuang Chih-yuan, and Chen Chien-an.
