Huang Liang (table tennis)
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{{About|a Chinese table tennis player|Chinese chemist|Huang Liang (chemist)}}
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{{MedalCompetition|World Table Tennis Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|1977|Men's Singles}}
{{MedalSilver|1977|Men's Doubles}}
{{MedalGold|1977|Men's Team}}
{{MedalSilver|1979|Men's Team}}
{{MedalBronze|1981|Mixed Doubles}}
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Huang Liang ({{zh|s=黄亮|t=黃亮|p=Huáng Liàng}}; 20 March 1954 – 23 December 1999) was a male Chinese international table tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=liang-huang-128948|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
Career
He won three medals at the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships;{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}} a bronze medal in the men's singles{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChMSingles2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412102459/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChMSingles2.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-12|title=Men's singles results|publisher=International Table Tennis Federation}} a silver medal in the men's doubles with Lu Yuansheng{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsMD.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsMD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-12|title=Men's doubles results|publisher=International Table Tennis Federation}} and a gold medal in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) for China.{{cite web|url=http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/world-table-tennis-championships-medal-winners.html|title=List of Winners|publisher=All About Table Tennis}}{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}
Two years later he won a silver at the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) and in 1981 won a bronze medal at the 1981 World Table Tennis Championships with Pu Qijuan in the mixed doubles.{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsXD.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609224957/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsXD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-06-09|title=Mixed doubles results|publisher=International Table Tennis Federation}}
He worked in Italy in the 1990s, and was diagnosed of esophagus cancer in 1997. When his health deteriorated, his family brought him back to Henan Cancer Hospital in Zhengzhou for treatment in December 1999.{{Cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/others/199912/2217209.shtml|title=前乒乓国手黄亮回国治疗癌症|date=1999-12-22|website=Sina|access-date=2018-07-06}}
See also
References
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Category:Chinese male table tennis players
Category:Table tennis players from Henan
Category:Year of death uncertain
Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Category:20th-century Chinese sportsmen
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