Liu Guodong is a Chinese

Chinese people

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 table tennis coach, currently working for the Indonesian Table Tennis Federation. Under his coaching, the Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 women's table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 team gained a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team

The women's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme and took place between August 13 and 17 at the Peking University Gymnasium. Teams consisted of three members. The sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, playing a round-robin within their pool...

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Career

His coaching career began in Mexico, where he served as an apprentice coach of China's national team, under his younger brother Liu Guoliang

Liu Guoliang

Liu Guoliang is a Chinese table tennis player who won all titles at major world tournaments including World Championships, World Cup and Olympic Games. The second man to achieve a career grand slam of 3 majors . He is considered by many to be one of the greatest players of all time.-Biography:Liu...

. He was appointed by the Singapore Table Tennis Association in 2006.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he coached the women's team, consisting of Feng Tianwei

Feng Tianwei

Feng Tianwei is a Singaporean table tennis player, ranked sixth in the world as a singles player as of April 2011. Born in China, she began training in Singapore in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month...

, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu

Wang Yuegu

Wang Yuegu is a China-born Singaporean table tennis player who is ranked among the top ten players in the world. Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean on the International Table Tennis Federation Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in Suncheon, South Korea, where she...

. The team won a silver medal, being beaten in the final by China

China

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In October 2008, he turned down the offer of a renewed contract with the Singapore Table Tennis Association, describing the proposed salary as 'insulting'. Instead, he signed a contract with the Indonesian Table Tennis Federation.