Xu Yinsheng

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Xu Yinsheng ({{zh|c=徐寅生|w=Hsü Yin-sheng}}; born 12 May 1938 in Shanghai) is a male former table tennis player from China.

Table tennis career

From 1959 to 1965 he won seven medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160115123153/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2991]

His seven World Championship medals{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=yinsheng-xu-128959|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}} included four gold medals; three in the team event and one in the doubles with Zhuang Zedong at the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships.{{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}} He was the coach of the national team in Nagoya 1971 World Championship.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

Professional achievements

He was president of the International Table Tennis Federation from 1995, following the sudden death of Sven-Olof Hammarlund, till 1999, when he was succeeded by the Canadian Adham Sharara.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

He has been inducted in the ITTF Hall of Fame in 2010.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

Other significance

On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, Xu's advice for playing ping pong was viewed as informative also in the context of commerce, and as endorsed by People's Daily, it was promoted as relevant inspiration for retail workers.{{Cite book |last=Coderre |first=Laurence |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1250021710 |title=Newborn socialist things : materiality in Maoist China |date=2021 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-1-4780-2161-2 |location=Durham |pages=67 |oclc=1250021710}}