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| Full name | KOYAMA Chire HE Zhili | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | China Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chire Koyama (小山 ちれ Koyama Chire) also known as He Zhili (simplified Chinese: 何智丽; traditional Chinese: 何智麗; pinyin: hé zhì lì),[1] (born 30 September 1964, Shanghai, China)[1] is a former table tennis world champion from China[2] who later represented Japan under her current name.
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Chire married and later divorced, Koyama Hideyuki, a Japanese national and settled in Japan.[3] Here she adopted her husband's surname.[3]
Representing China as He Zhili, she was the runner-up in both singles and doubles at the Seoul Games in 1986. Koyama won the 1994 Asian Games singles title in Hiroshima, Japan playing for her adopted country.[2]
She won gold in singles and silver in mixed doubles at the 7th Asian Championships held in 1983 in Islamabad, Pakistan.[2]
Representing China, she won the 1987 World Championships in New Delhi, India.[2] However, she left the national team soon after as a result of her decision to not throw away matches to her teammates.[3]
Koyama represented Japan at the 1996 Atlanta Games and 2000 Sydney Games.[2] She reached the quarter final stage (singles) in both games.[1]