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Article: China sweeps the board in table tennis world championships (updated)
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 27, 2007
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China sweeps the board in table tennis world championships
(updated)
ZAGREB, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Wang Liqin shut the last non-Chinese
out of the world table tennis championships on Sunday, ensuring
China's clean sweep of gold and silver medals for the third time.
The defending champion played a technically smart game to outlast
South Korean Olympic champion Ryu Seung Min 6-11, 11-3, 11-7. 14-16,
11-6, 10-12, 11-7, joining teammate Ma Lin in the final.
China has won the men's doubles, mixed doubles and women's
singles, and made the women's doubles a Chinese affair.
It is the fifth time for China to clean sweep the individual golds
and for the third time, after the 1981 and 2001 ...