Fang Bo

Fang Bo (Chinese: 方博; pinyin: Fāng Bó; born November 6, 1992) is a Chinese male table tennis player.^[4] In 2002, Fang Bo became a member of the Shandong Luneng table tennis club. In 2009, he joined the China national table tennis first team.^{[citation needed]} In the same year December 2009, he won all four team and individual titles at the 2009 World Junior Championships,^[5] becoming the first youth player to accomplish this feat in China. At his peak in 2015, he reached the men's singles final at the World Championships by defeating the second-seeded Xu Xin and the defending champion Zhang Jike. Fang Bo then obtained his first world table tennis champion title in 2016 during the World Team Table Tennis Championships. In 2017, he partnered with Petrissa Solja of the German table tennis team and won bronze in the mixed doubles at the World Championships in Düsseldorf, Germany. Fang Bo was ranked fifth in the China National Table Tennis (First) Team after emerging as first runner-up of the 2018 China National Table Tennis Championships. In 2019, Fang Bo successfully led his teammates and Team Tian Jin to win the overall team gold medal in the 2019 China Super League. Concomitantly, Fang Bo represented UMMC at the ETTU Table Tennis Champions League and the team came in second after losing 2:3 to Fakel Gazprom Orenburg in the final leg.

Fang Bo
Fang Bo at the 2016 World Championships
Personal information
Native name	方博
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(1992-11-06) 6 November 1992 (age 32) Tongcheng County, Hubei[1]
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Table tennis career
Playing style	Right-handed, shakehand grip
Equipment(s)	Butterfly Viscara, DHS Hurricane 3 (blue sponge) (FH), DHS Hurricane 3 (orange sponge) (BH)[2]
Highest ranking	8 (May 2015)[3]
Medal record Representing  China World Championships 2016 Kuala Lumpur Team 2015 Suzhou Singles 2017 Düsseldorf Mixed doubles Asian Championships 2017 Wuxi Doubles 2017 Wuxi Mixed doubles ITTF World Tour 2013 Austrian Open Singles 2015 Swedish Open Doubles 2017 Hungarian Open Doubles 2014 Korea Open Singles 2014 Swedish Open Singles 2015 China Open Doubles All China Table Tennis Championships 2018 Anshan Singles

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fang.

Fang Bo announced retirement from Chinese national team in 2021.^[6][7]