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Full name | XIE Saike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 31 August 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Xie Saike (born 31 August 1961) is a male former table tennis player from China. He was the 1981 World Champion in mixed doubles. [1]
Xie won the 1982 Asian Games singles title in New Delhi, India. [2]
Xie was twice runner-up at these Championships in 1982 (Jakarta) and 1980 (Calcutta, now Kolkata). [3] He finally won gold in three categories (single, [3] doubles (men and mixed)) at the 1984 Asian Table Tennis Championships held in Islamabad, Pakistan.[ citation needed ]
Xie was twice runner-up in doubles (men) at the 1981 World Championships in Novi Sad and 1983 World Championships in Tokyo. [4]
He was the runner-up at the World Cup held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1981. [5]
Xie was one of the torch runners in Nanning for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. [6]
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