Table Tennis | Athlete Profile: Liam PITCHFORD - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games

Birth Date:  12 Jul 1993
Place of Birth:  CHESTERFIELD
Country of birth:  GBR
Age:  24
Gender:   Men

Height (cm): 184
Weight (Kg): 65

Events and Medals

Sport	Event	Rank
Table Tennis	Men's Team ENG England	3
	Men's Singles	5
	Men's Doubles ENG DRINKHALL Paul/PITCHFORD Liam	1
	Mixed Doubles ENG PITCHFORD Liam/HO Tin-Tin	2

Liam PITCHFORD - Schedule

Schedule
Time	My Time	Venue	Event	Status
Thu, 5 Apr 12:00	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Team Group 2 ENG England 3 GHA Ghana 0	Finished
Thu, 5 Apr 18:30	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 4	Men's Team Group 2 ENG England 3 GUY Guyana 0	Finished
Sat, 7 Apr 18:30	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Team Quarterfinal 4 NIR Northern Ireland 0 ENG England 3	Finished
Mon, 9 Apr followed by	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Team Semifinal 2 NGR Nigeria 3 ENG England 2	Finished
Mon, 9 Apr 16:55	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Team Bronze Medal Match SGP Singapore 0 ENG England 3	Finished
Wed, 11 Apr 13:00	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Doubles Round of 32 GHA ABREFA Derek/LARTEY Felix 0 ENG DRINKHALL Paul/PITCHFORD Liam 3	Finished
Wed, 11 Apr 16:30	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 3	Mixed Doubles Round of 32 ENG PITCHFORD Liam/HO Tin-Tin 3 SGP BEH Kun Ting/ZHANG Wanling 1	Finished
Wed, 11 Apr 20:15	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 2	Men's Singles Round of 32 ENG Liam PITCHFORD 4 NGR Bode ABIODUN 1	Finished
Thu, 12 Apr 11:50	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Mixed Doubles Round of 16 ENG PITCHFORD Liam/HO Tin-Tin 3 AUS CARTER Trent/FENG Tracy 1	Finished
Thu, 12 Apr 13:55	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Singles Round of 16 ENG Liam PITCHFORD 4 SCO Gavin RUMGAY 1	Finished
Thu, 12 Apr 18:35	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 2	Men's Doubles Round of 16 NGR ABIODUN Bode/OMOTAYO Olajide 0 ENG DRINKHALL Paul/PITCHFORD Liam 3	Finished
Fri, 13 Apr 9:30	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 2	Men's Doubles Quarterfinal 4 SGP GAO Ning/PANG Xue Jie 2 ENG DRINKHALL Paul/PITCHFORD Liam 3	Finished
Fri, 13 Apr 10:40	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 3	Mixed Doubles Quarterfinal 3 ENG PITCHFORD Liam/HO Tin-Tin 3 IND SHETTY Sanil Shankar/PATKAR Madhurika 2	Finished
Fri, 13 Apr 13:10	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Singles Quarterfinal 2 ENG Liam PITCHFORD 2 IND Sharath ACHANTA 4	Finished
Fri, 13 Apr 18:40	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Doubles Semifinal 2 IND DESAI Harmeet/SHETTY Sanil Shankar 0 ENG DRINKHALL Paul/PITCHFORD Liam 3	Finished
Sat, 14 Apr 10:05	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Mixed Doubles Semifinal 2 ENG PITCHFORD Liam/HO Tin-Tin 3 IND GNANASEKARAN Sathiyan/BATRA Manika 2	Finished
Sat, 14 Apr 20:45	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match IND ACHANTA Sharath/GNANASEKARAN Sathiyan 2 ENG DRINKHALL Paul/PITCHFORD Liam 3	Finished
Sun, 15 Apr 10:15	-	Oxenford Studios, TT Table 1	Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match SGP GAO Ning/YU Mengyu 3 ENG PITCHFORD Liam/HO Tin-Tin 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights:

Commonwealth Games
Year	Location	Event	Rank
2014	Glasgow, SCO	Men's Singles	3
2014	Glasgow, SCO	Men's Doubles	4
2014	Glasgow, SCO	Mixed Doubles	2
2014	Glasgow, SCO	Men's Team	2
2010	Delhi, IND	Men's Singles	R32
2010	Delhi, IND	Men's Doubles	3
2010	Delhi, IND	Mixed Doubles	R32
2010	Delhi, IND	Men's Team	2

Olympic Games
Year	Location	Event	Rank
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Men's Singles	R32
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Men's Team	QF
2012	London, GBR	Men's Team	9

World Championships
Year	Location	Event	Rank
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	Men's Singles	R128
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	Men's Doubles	R64
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	Men's Team	3
2015	Suzhou, CHN	Men's Singles	R32
2015	Suzhou, CHN	Men's Doubles	R64
2014	Tokyo, JPN	Men's Team	25
2013	Paris, FRA	Men's Singles	R128
2013	Paris, FRA	Men's Doubles	Prelim
2013	Paris, FRA	Mixed Doubles	R64
2011	Rotterdam, NED	Men's Singles	R128
2011	Rotterdam, NED	Men's Doubles	Prelim

Nickname: Pitch, Pitchy (baku2015.com, 18 Jun 2015)
Hobbies: Football, golf and hanging out with his dog Max. (Twitter, 16 May 2017; Instagram, 29 Apr 2017; tabletennisdaily.co.uk, 25 Mar 2017)
Occupation: Athlete. (Twitter, 16 May 2017)
Languages spoken: English
Coach:

NATIONAL: Alan COOKE (ENG) (derbyshiretimes.co.uk, 19 May 2016)

Position style: Right-handed, shakehand grip
Reason: Discovered the sport as a junior at school when it was a rainy afternoon and he played in the hall. (tabletennisdaily.co.uk, 29 Jan 2012)
Influence: His parents and Liu JIAYI. (tabletennisdaily.co.uk, 25 Mar 2017)

Additional information:

MEDAL GLORY
Became the first English table tennis player to win a Commonwealth Games medal, with bronze in singles at Glasgow 2014. (ittf.com, 4 Apr 2017; etta.co.uk, 21 Dec 2011)

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Liam PITCHFORD

Events and Medals

Liam PITCHFORD - Schedule

Biographical Information

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