Feng Tianwei

Feng Tianwei PJG (Chinese: 冯天薇; pinyin: Féng Tiānwēi, pronounced [fə̌ŋ tjɛ́nwéi]) is a retired Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month.

Feng Tianwei
PJG
Feng in 2017
Personal information
Native name冯天薇
NationalitySingapore
ResidenceSingapore
Born (1986-08-31) 31 August 1986
Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed shakehand grip
Equipment(s)Butterfly Zhang Jike Blade
Highest ranking2 (April - September 2010, August 2011)
Medal record
Women's Table Tennis
Representing  Singapore
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 2
World Championships 1 2 4
World Cup 0 2 7
Asian Games 0 1 2
Asian Championships 0 2 4
Asian Cup 1 1 2
Commonwealth Games 9 3 1
Southeast Asian Games 8 5 1
Total 19 17 23
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Team
2012 LondonSingles
2012 LondonTeam
World Championships
2010 Moscow Team
2008 Guangzhou Team
2012 Dortmund Team
2013 Paris Doubles
2014 Tokyo Team
2015 Suzhou Doubles
2017 Düsseldorf Doubles
World Cup
2009 Linz Team
2010 Dubai Team
2008 Kuala Lumpur Singles
2011 Magdeburg Team
2013 Guangzhou Team
2013 Kobe Singles
2015 Dubai Team
2016 PhiladelphiaSingles
2019 Chengdu Singles
ITTF World Tour
(Only Champion & Runner-up are listed)
2008 Berlin Team
2008 Warsaw Singles
2009 Seoul Singles
2010 Grand Finals Singles
2011 Incheon Singles
2011 Kobe Singles
2012 Grand Finals Doubles
2014 Subic Bay Singles
2014 Sydney Singles
2014 Yokohama Singles
2016 Otocec Singles
2017 Incheon Singles
2007 Taipei Singles
2008 Yokohama Team
2008 Warsaw Doubles
2010 Seoul Singles
2011 Shenzhen Singles
2012 Santos Singles
2013 Kuwait Singles
2014 Incheon Singles
2014 Yokohama Doubles
2015 De Haan Singles
2015 Warsaw Doubles
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou Team
2014 Incheon Singles
2014 Incheon Team
Asian Championships
2009 Lucknow Team
2011 Macau Team
2009 Lucknow Doubles
2013 Busan Team
2015 Pattaya Singles
2019 Yogyakarta Team
Asian Cup
2015 Jaipur Singles
2008 Sapporo Singles
2010 Guangzhou Singles
2016 Dubai Singles
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi Singles
2010 Delhi Team
2014 Glasgow Singles
2014 Glasgow Doubles
2014 Glasgow Team
2018 Gold Coast Doubles
2022 Birmingham Singles
2022 Birmingham Doubles
2022 Birmingham Team
2010 Delhi Doubles
2010 Delhi Mixed doubles
2018 Gold Coast Team
2018 Gold Coast Singles
Southeast Asian Games
2009 Vientiane Singles
2009 Vientiane Team
2011 Jakarta-Palembang Singles
2011 Jakarta-Palembang Doubles
2015 Singapore Team
2017 Kuala Lumpur Singles
2017 Kuala Lumpur Doubles
2017 Kuala Lumpur Team
2009 Vientiane Doubles
2009 Vientiane Mixed doubles
2011 Jakarta-Palembang Mixed doubles
2015 Singapore Doubles
2019 Philippines Singles
2019 Philippines Doubles

Feng represented Singapore for the first time in the Olympic Games at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On 15 August 2008, the Singapore team comprising Feng and her teammates Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu defeated South Korea 3–2 in the semifinals. The team lost to China in the final, obtaining the silver medal. This was Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years and its first as an independent nation.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Feng defeated Kasumi Ishikawa of Japan 4–0 to win the women's singles bronze medal, Singapore's first Olympic singles medal since the 1960 Summer Olympics. She would later won the bronze medal at the women's team event with Li and Wang against South Korea. This was the first time Singapore had won two medals at an Olympic Games.

On 15 March 2015, Feng defeated Zhu Yuling and Liu Shiwen at the 2015 Asian Cup in Jaipur to be crowned Asian Cup Champion for the first time. At the same time, she broke China's 7 consecutive years of dominance in this tournament.

On 25 October 2016, the Singapore Table Tennis Association announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Feng, citing the need for rejuvenation of the national team. However, STTA has confirmed to support her for future international competitions if she meets the selection criteria. A few months after her exit from STTA, she went on to beat then world number one and Olympic gold medalist Ding Ning 3–2 in the Chinese Table Tennis Super League.

On 11 October 2019, Feng defeated Chen Meng, then ranked world number one, in 4 straight games, causing the biggest upset in the 2019 German Open.

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