Liu Guoliang

Liu Guoliang fascinates me because he won everything as a player, completing the career Grand Slam, then arguably did even bigger work as a coach. A guy who's barely 168cm dominating with that old penhold style felt almost defiant in a sport drifting toward shakehand power. His doubles partnership with Kong Linghui was a thing of telepathic timing. Then he rebuilt the Chinese national team into something terrifying. People call him one of the greatest players and coaches ever, and unusually, both claims hold up. He's proof that table-tennis IQ travels from the playing hand to the clipboard better than most assume.

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Name (English)

Liu Guoliang

Name (Japanese)

劉国梁

Reading

りゅう・こくりょう

Born

January 10, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Xinxiang, People's Republic of China

Height

168 cm

Occupation

table tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Guoliang
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%9B%BD%E6%A2%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555173

Tags

• table tennis player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.