Xie Chaojie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | XIE Chaojie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 October 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Xie Chaojie is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1989 to 1993 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships. [1]
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