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'''Liu Shiwen''' ([[Simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]]:就是问; [[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]]: 就看问; born [[12 April|12 april]] [[1991]] in [[Liaoning]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>) is a female Chinese [[table tennis]] player. She became vice-world champion in singles in [[2013]] and [[2015]]. With the team she won four times the world [[Championship|championships]].
[[File:Mondial Ping -Women's Singles - Quarterfinal - Melek Hu-Liu Shiwen - 14.jpg|thumb|Liu at the WTTC 2013]]

== Earlier years ==
Liu Shiwen was born on [[12 April|12 april]] [[1991]] in [[Liaoning]], a province in [[China]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>. Already in young years her [[grandmother]] phrophesied her a career as a [[writer]], because the syllable ,,shi<nowiki>''</nowiki> meens rhyme<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>. But her mother has different plans: She wanted that Liu Shiwen becomes a [[table tennis]] player. So already with four years Liu started to play [[table tennis]]. At first her mother was her coach. With five years she changed to Coach [[Zhang Jingqing]]- and began her career.

At the age of seven Liu was facing a difficult dicision: Lius coach Zhang Jinqing was called to [[Guangdong]] and offered to follow him<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>. Finally, her mother agreed and let her daughter move to [[Guangdong]] to continue the practice. At the beginning the girl very often has homesick and suffered under the distance to the familiy. This prompted her mother to do so, to quit her job and came to Lius place. Instantly Lius playing improve<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>.

== Career ==
In [[2004]] Liu came to the chinese national team in the A-Kader. At the age of 16 she took her country at world championships ([[2007]] in [[Croatia]]), at first without signifant successes. [[2008]] at the chinese national games but she dres attention to herself. In the final she beat [[Li Xiaoxia]]. 2009 (she took part for the first time) at the world cup she won gold<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>. This winning you should succeed three more times, that gave her the nickname ,,world cup queen<nowiki>''</nowiki><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>. But her success curve too a tent when she defeated at the world [[Championship|championships]] against players from [[Singapore]].

In the next year she won bronze in the singles at the world [[Championship|championships]]. As she [[2012]] lost again to a singapore player ([[Yu Mengyu]]), the self-confidence of the coach Kong Linghui was shaken. But one year later, she played very well: At the world [[Championship|championships]] she came for the first time to the final, where she only lost to [[Li Xiaoxia]]. [[2015]] she became for the fourth time world cup champion<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.butterflymag.com/2015/11/liu-shiwen-world-cup-queen/|title=Liu Shiwen – World Cup Queen|last=Mag|first=Butterfly|website=www.butterflymag.com|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref>. [[2016]] she won the world [[The Championships, Wimbledon|championships]] again and is considered on of the best players today.

== Successen ==

=== World Championships ===

* 2012, 2014, 2016- gold with the team
* 2010- silver with the team
* 2011, 2017- bonze in the singles
* 2013, 2015- silver in the singles

=== Olympic Games ===

* 2016- team gold

=== World Cup ===

* 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015- gold in the singles

== References ==