Fang Bo

{{short description|Chinese table tennis player}}

{{Infobox table tennis player

| name = Fang Bo

| native_name = 方博

| native_name_lang = zh-hans-CN

| image = Fang Bo WTTC2016 2.jpeg

| imagesize =

| caption = Fang Bo at the 2016 World Championships

| nationality = Chinese

| equipment = Butterfly Viscara, DHS Hurricane 3 (blue sponge) (FH), DHS Hurricane 3 (orange sponge) (BH){{cite web |title=Fang Bo equipment, playing style, biography |url=https://pingsunday.com/fang-bo-equipment/ |website=PingSunday.com |access-date=13 February 2023}}

| playingstyle= Right-handed, shakehand grip

| hrank= 8 (May 2015){{cite web|url=https://ranking.ittf.com/#/rankings/progress/111606/SEN/M;SINGLES|title=Ranking progression|website=ittf.com|access-date=14 January 2022}}

| club =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|11|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tongcheng County, Hubei{{cite web|url=http://www.zgtc.gov.cn/xw/yytc/articles/5901.html |title=方博 |work=zgtc.gov.cn |language=zh |date=16 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514035720/http://www.zgtc.gov.cn/xw/yytc/articles/5901.html |archive-date=2015-05-14 }}

| height = 1.76 m

| weight =

| show-medals =

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry|{{CHN}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2016 Kuala Lumpur|Team}}

{{MedalSilver|2015 Suzhou|Singles}}

{{MedalBronze|2017 Düsseldorf|Mixed doubles}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2017 Wuxi|Doubles}}

{{MedalBronze|2017 Wuxi|Mixed doubles}}

{{MedalCompetition|ITTF World Tour}}

{{MedalGold|2013 Austrian Open|Singles}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Swedish Open|Doubles}}

{{MedalGold|2017 Hungarian Open|Doubles}}

{{MedalSilver|2014 Korea Open|Singles}}

{{MedalSilver|2014 Swedish Open|Singles}}

{{MedalSilver|2015 China Open|Doubles}}

{{MedalCompetition|All China Table Tennis Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2018 Anshan|Singles}}

}}

{{family name hatnote|Fang|lang=Chinese}}

Fang Bo ({{zh|c=方博|p=Fāng Bó}}; born November 6, 1992) is a Chinese male table tennis player.{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/juniors/2009/wjttc_Cartagena/WJTTC_Cartagena_2009_entries.pdf|title=Entries at the 2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships|work=ittf.com|format=PDF|access-date=3 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072731/http://www.ittf.com/juniors/2009/wjttc_Cartagena/WJTTC_Cartagena_2009_entries.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} 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.{{cn|date=October 2020}} In the same year December 2009, he won all four team and individual titles at the 2009 World Junior Championships,{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=10666|title=FANG Bo (CHN)|work=ittf.com|access-date=3 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518105249/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=10666|archive-date=18 May 2015}} 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 announced retirement from Chinese national team in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://inf.news/en/sport/6d62be407dcf2e3709e11cd447f32ce9.html|title=Looking back at Fang Bo's national team, it's far from exciting, but a winning streak of Xu Xin and Zhang Jike in the World Table Tennis Championships is enough|website=inf.news|access-date=14 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://pingsunday.com/zhou-yu-fang-bo-and-yan-an-announced-their-retirement/|title=Zhou Yu, Fang Bo and Yan An announced their retirement|language=en|date=13 February 2023|access-date=13 February 2023}}