Ma Long, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ma Long

Chinese table tennis player

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1988

Place of Birth: Anshan, Liaoning, China

Profession: table tennis player

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Ma Long

  • Ma Long (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??; pinyin: Ma Lóng; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese table tennis player.
  • The current Olympic and World Champion, he is ranked number 3 in the world (as of August 2019) by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
  • He has held the ranking of number 1 for a total of 64 months (and 34 consecutive months from March 2015), the most by any male player in the history of table tennis.
  • Ma was born in Anshan, Liaoning, China.
  • He won a record 5 straight ITTF World Tour tournaments in a row, including a streak of 35 sets, and a record total of 28 ITTF World Tour titles.
  • Since 2014, he has been the captain of the Chinese National Table Tennis Men's Team. After a clean sweep victory in the Men's Singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ma Long became the fifth player to complete a career Grand Slam (winning the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup), joining Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner and China's Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, and Zhang Jike.
  • Additionally, he became the first male player (and second overall) in the world to have won every singles title in table tennis.
  • These records have led many to consider him to be the greatest player of all time.

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