# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rong-guotuan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:37:32.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rong-guotuan"
name: "Rong Guotuan"
slug: "rong-guotuan"
description: "Rong Guotuan was a Chinese table tennis player. He won the men's singles title at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, the first world championship winner representing the People's Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution, Rong was persecuted as a \"spy suspect\". He committed suicide on June 20, 1968."
tagline: "Chinese table tennis player (1937-1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rongguotuan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1937-08-10"
deathDate: "1968-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.58
  momentum:             11.59851301115242
  historical:           9.390753333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%B9%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%A2"
    title: "容国团"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "رونگ گوتوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%B9%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%A3"
    title: "容国団"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rong_Guotuan"
    title: "Rong Guotuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2061252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump