Oh Sang-eun

What strikes me about Oh Sang-eun is the quiet consistency of his career. Cracking the world's top ten in table tennis from 2005 and holding it for nearly three years is no fluke, and peaking at number five in May 2007 puts him among the genuine elite of his generation. Standing 186cm, he was unusually tall for the sport, which I imagine gave his reach a real edge at the table. Coming out of Daegu and later studying in Seoul, he represents the deep South Korean tradition in a discipline long dominated by China. To me he's a model of steady, world-class craft rather than flash.

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Name (English)

Oh Sang-eun

Name (Japanese)

呉尚垠

Reading

お・さんうん

Born

April 13, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Daegu, South Korea

Height

186 cm

Occupation

table tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

University

Seoul National University of Science and Technology

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20Sang-eun
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%89%E5%B0%9A%E5%9E%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q482639

Tags

• table tennis player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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