club crank headercolor birth_place weight equipment hrank height sport birth_date nickname residence playingstyle article_title name
tus holsterhausen 66 -lrb- march 2013 -rrb- lightblue china 62 kg lb 0 on tibhar 46 -lrb- february 2012 -rrb- 1.64 0 on table tennis 9 january 1987 lulu essen , germany right-handed , shakehand zhenqi barthel
 zhenqi barthel -lrb- sun zhenqi -rrb-
zhenqi barthel

zhenqi barthel -lrb- ; born january 9 , 1987 -rrb- , née sun zhenqi , is a german table tennis player of chinese origin .
in 2002 , she moved to essen , germany , where she became a resident athlete of tus holsterhausen , and trained for the table tennis team , under her personal coaches jörg bitzigeio and wang zhi .
three years later , she was adopted by the couple barthel , changed her surname , and obtained a german citizenship .
as of march 2013 , barthel is ranked no. 66 in the world by the international table tennis federation -lrb- ittf -rrb- .
she is also right-handed , and uses the shakehand grip .
barthel qualified for the inaugural women 's team event at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , by receiving a spot as one of the remaining top 10 teams from ittf 's computer team ranking list .
playing with fellow chinese-born teammate wu jiaduo and olympic veteran elke schall , barthel placed fourth in the preliminary pool round , against hong kong , poland , and romania , with a total score of three points , and three straight losses .
at the 2009 european championships in stuttgart , barthel and her partner kristin silbereisen won a bronze medal in the women 's doubles match , and shared their triumph with the eastern european duo oksana fadeyeva -lrb- russia -rrb- and rūta paškauskienė -lrb- lithuania -rrb- .
four years later , barthel captured a silver medal , along with shan xiaona , in the same tournament at the ittf 2013 world tour qatar open in doha , losing out to the formidable chinese duo and olympic champions ding ning and li xiaoxia -lrb- 8 -- 11 , 11 -- 9 , 7 -- 11 , 9 -- 11 -rrb- .
