That changed with Rong Guotuan. In 1959, Rong won the Table Tennis World Championships, becoming the People’s Republic of China’s first world champion in any sport. A man from a humble ...

The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s ... China won the women's team competition, but silver medalist Germany made history by winning the first women's team medal of any ...

Para table tennis is the third largest Paralympic sport in terms of athlete numbers and is practiced in more than 100 countries. The sport is governed by the International Table Tennis Federation ...

On April 12, a Pan Am 707 lands in Detroit, Michigan, carrying the People's Republic of China's world champion table tennis team for ... events in U.S. postwar history. "Never before in history ...

Brazil’s Hugo Calderano made history on Sunday by becoming the first player from outside China or Europe to win the International Table Tennis Federation World Cup, defeating the world’s top-ranked ...

Table tennis player Bruna Alexandre will make history later this year as the first person from Brazil to compete at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Earlier this week, the Brazilian Table ...