fullname native_name_lang birth_place native_name article_title name
li furong/li fu-jung zh-hans-cn shanghai , china 李富荣 li furong
 li furong
li furong

li furong -lrb- ; born 1942 in shanghai , china -rrb- was a chinese male table tennis player .
he was a native of zhejiang province starting to play table tennis at 15 and joined national team in 1959 .
li helped the chinese men 's team win four team titles at the world table tennis championships in 1961 , 1963 , 1965 and 1971 .
in men 's singles competitions , he made 3 consecutive appearances at the finals of the world championships in 1961 , 1963 , and 1965 .
however , li lost to compatriot zhuang zedong in all of the three finals , making himself become one of four players who played in three finals without winning -lrb- together with hungarian laszlo bellak , polish alojzy ehrlich and countryman ma lin -rrb- .
rumor had it that li 's losses at the finals were prearranged .
the 1961 championships was referred as the commencement of match fixing in history of chinese table tennis .
in 1999 , li was inducted into the ittf hall of fame .
li became the president of asian table tennis union -lrb- attu -rrb- in 2001 .
the post was succeeded by cai zhenhua in 2009 and li was awarded the attu honorary life president in 2010 .
