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Lin Gaoyuan

Chinese table tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ30128441
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Lin Gaoyuan (Chinese: 林高远; pinyin: Lín Gāoyuǎn; born 19 March 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. He was the Asian Cup champion in 2017, and was a member of the Chinese teams that took the gold medals at the World Team Championships in 2018 and 2022.

Career

2011

On 3 July 2011, in the 2011 ITTF Tour Korea Open men's singles semi-finals, Lin Gaoyuan lost 2-4 to South Korea's Lee Sang-soo and won the men's singles third place. On 10 July, in the men's doubles final of the 2011 ITTF Japan Open, Lin Gaoyuan/Wu Jiaji defeated the Japanese pair Matsudaira Kenta/Niwa Takuma 4-1 to win the championship. On 23 July, Lin Gaoyuan played for the Chinese team in the men's team final of the 2011 Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships, helping the Chinese team defeat the Japanese team with a total score of 3-0 and win the championship. On 20 October, Lin Gaoyuan played for the Guangzhou team in the men's table tennis final of the 7th City Games of the People's Republic of China. In the end, the Guangzhou team lost to the Baoding team 1-3 and won the runner-up. On 23 October, Lin Gaoyuan won the bronze medal in the men's singles table tennis competition at the 7th Urban Games of the People's Republic of China. On 14 November, in the men's team competition of the 2011 World Youth Table Tennis Championships, Lin Gaoyuan defeated Yoshimura Masaharu 3-1 in the first set, and defeated Niwa Takuma 3-1 in the fourth set. In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team 3-1 to win the men's team championship.

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“Lin Gaoyuan” enters the record as chinese table tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gaoyuan, Chinese and table can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30128441. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2017, 2018 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Lin Gaoyuan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.