梁柱恩

English

Leung Chu-yan was born on 21 April 1979 in Guangdong, China, and is a Hong Kong table tennis player who became a coach with the Hong Kong team after retiring. He first came to prominence after playing at the 1996 Asian Cup and went on to represent Hong Kong at many international events. In 2000 he won men's doubles silver at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Doha; at the 2002 Busan Asian Games he was part of the Hong Kong men's team that took bronze, and he won men's team bronze again at the 2006 Doha Asian Games. He competed at three Olympic Games - Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 - playing in both the men's singles and men's doubles at Athens. Besides representing Hong Kong he also played professionally for German club teams in the European leagues, gaining wide international experience. After retiring he moved into coaching and has long worked with the Hong Kong, China team. He travelled with the Hong Kong delegation as a table tennis coach at both the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games and the Paris 2024 Olympics, serving as men's team coach in 2023. He has helped develop Hong Kong's men's players and forms part of a coaching group that also includes Zhang Rui, Liu Guodong and Li Ching.