With the men's team Chinese team winning the championship at the Paris Olympics, Ma Long also won his sixth Olympic gold medal, not only successfully surpassing the five gold medals of Chinese diver Wu Minxia and becoming the athlete with the most Olympic gold medals in China, but also the athlete who won the most Olympic table tennis competitions in the world table tennis world.
In particular, the difficulty of an athlete to win 6 gold medals in table tennis Olympic competitions is even more difficult than climbing to the sky. Why is it so difficult?
The first is the Olympic table tennis event, which produces a total of five gold medals in men's singles, women's singles, mixed doubles, men's team and women's team (the men's and women's team competitions have replaced men's and women's doubles since the 2008 Olympic Games).
In order to win three table tennis gold medals at one Olympic Games, you will have to compete in three events: singles, mixed doubles and teams. Up to now, although people like Wang Chuqin and others have participated in three events in one Olympic Games, no one has been able to win three gold medals in one competition.
Currently, the most table tennis gold medals won at the same Olympics are two. If you do this, in order to win or exceed 6 gold medals, you need to participate in at least three Olympic Games, and you need to win more than two gold medals each time. It's an achievement that no one has yet been able to accomplish.
In addition, Ma Long's 6 Olympic gold medals in table tennis, he has experienced four Olympic Games to achieve today's achievement, which spans 12 years.
Although Ma Long's achievements were earlier, his first time standing on the Olympic stage was at the 2012 London Olympics, when he only participated in the men's team competition, partnering with Ma Zhang Jike and Wang Hao, and won his first Olympic gold.
At Rio 2016, he competed in the men's singles and men's teams. In the men's singles competition, he and his teammate Zhang Jike won the second Olympic gold medal with a score of 4:0, and he also became the fourth Grand Slam player in the history of national men's table tennis with the Olympic men's singles championship, and the first super Grand Slam male player in the history of table tennis to set the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Asian Games, Asian Championships, Asian Cup, Tour Finals, and National Games singles championships.
In the men's team competition at the Rio Olympics, the Chinese men's team composed of Zhang Jike, Xu Xin and Ma Long made it all the way to the final, facing Japan, who defeated Japan 3-1 and successfully defended their title. Malone also won his third Olympic gold medal.
At Tokyo 2020, he continued to compete in the men's singles and men's teams. In the men's singles, his opponent was teammate Fan Zhendong, and the two fought hard for six games, and finally he defeated Fan Zhendong 4-2 with Ma Long, winning the championship and winning his fourth Olympic gold medal. He became the first athlete to win consecutive Olympic table tennis men's singles gold medals, and also became the first player in the table tennis world to achieve a grand slam in men's singles and doubles.
The Chinese team, led by Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin, met Germany in the men's team final of the Tokyo Olympics and defeated Germany 3-0 to win the championship. He also won his fifth Olympic gold medal.
It's time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. He entered the final with Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin, and when he defeated Sweden 3-0 to win the men's team championship again, Ma Long also successfully won his sixth gold medal, becoming the athlete with the most gold medals in China's Olympic history.
Ma Long's 12 years of perseverance have made a legend in the world table tennis world, which is inseparable from his persistence and hard work as always. In the Chinese table tennis world, where there are many masters, he has always maintained a very good competitive state.
If Ma Long's achievements are "no one to come", it is a big sentence, but looking at the sports career of Chinese table tennis players in the past, most of them have participated in two Olympic Games and then slowly withdrew from the stage because of their competitive state, and there are very few who can participate in three Olympic Games, and there are very few who can participate in four consecutive Olympic Games like Ma Long.
Congratulations to Ma Long, who has become the Chinese athlete with the most Olympic gold medals, and congratulations to him for becoming a legend in the world table tennis world.
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