Zhang Jike

Zhang Jike
2013 World Table Tennis Championships, Paris
Personal information
Native name张继科
NationalityChinese
Born (1988-02-16) 16 February 1988 (age 36)[1]
Qingdao, Shandong, China
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Weight73 kg (161 lb)[2]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed, shakehand grip
Equipment(s)Butterfly Viscaria FL, DHS Hurricane 3 National (FH-Black), Butterfly Tenergy 80 (BH-Red)
Highest ranking1 (June to December 2012) [3]
ClubShandong Luneng
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  China
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 1 0
World Championships 7 1 3
World Cup 6 1 0
Total 16 3 3
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Singles
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Singles
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Yokohama Doubles
Silver medal – second place 2009 Yokohama Mixed doubles
Gold medal – first place 2010 Moscow Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Rotterdam Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Rotterdam Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2012 Dortmund Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Paris Singles
Gold medal – first place 2014 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Suzhou Singles
Gold medal – first place 2015 Suzhou Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2016 Kuala Lumpur Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2009 Linz Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Dubai Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Magdeburg Singles
Gold medal – first place 2011 Paris Singles
Gold medal – first place 2013 Guangzhou Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Düsseldorf Singles
Gold medal – first place 2015 Dubai Team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Team
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Lucknow Singles
Gold medal – first place 2009 Lucknow Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Macau Singles
Gold medal – first place 2011 Macau Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Busan Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Pattaya Team
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Jike (simplified Chinese: 张继科; traditional Chinese: 張繼科; pinyin: Zhāng Jìkē; born 16 February 1988) is a retired Chinese table tennis player.[1][4]

Zhang became the fourth male player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career Grand Slam when he won gold in men's singles at the Olympic games in London 2012.[5] The first three are Jan-Ove Waldner (in 1992), Liu Guoliang (in 1999), and Kong Linghui (in 2000). Zhang won the Grand Slam in only 445 days. He won, consecutively, first WTTC 2011, then World Cup 2011, and then London Olympics 2012, which made him the fastest player ever to win a Grand Slam. After the first Grand Slam, he won WTTC 2013 and World Cup 2014.

  1. ^ a b "ITTF player's profile". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
  2. ^ a b "Athlete's Profile". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. ^ "ITTF world ranking". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
  4. ^ "ITTF Statistics". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  5. ^ "China's Zhang wins men's table tennis gold". The Times Of India. Retrieved 2012-08-02.