24 Facts About Liam Pitchford

Liam Benjamin Pitchford was born on 12 July 1993 and is an English table tennis player.

Liam Pitchford won the British Home Countries Championship in 2009, and two Commonwealth Games medals in 2010.

From 2009 to 2010 Liam Pitchford played for Aarhus BTK in the best Danish league.

Liam Pitchford finished the year with a career-high World ranking of 171 to become the third highest-ranked British player on the ITTF World Ranking list, and was part of the Team GB squad for the London Olympics in 2012.

Liam Pitchford has won national singles titles at U14, Cadet, U21 and Senior levels, and doubles titles at U14, Cadet, Junior and Senior levels.

Liam Pitchford is the reigning men's singles national champion.

Liam Pitchford represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, winning a silver medal in the team competition as Singapore took gold in a repeat of the 2010 result.

Liam Pitchford won a silver medal alongside Tin-Tin Ho in the mixed doubles, and won the bronze medal in the men's singles.

At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Liam Pitchford showed growth by reaching the round of 32 in men's singles.

Liam Pitchford beat two-time World Cup runner-up Kalinikos Kreanga and world number 20 Tiago Apolonia before losing to South Korean Joo Sae-hyuk.

In June 2015, Liam Pitchford was part of the Great Britain table tennis squad at the inaugural European Games in Baku, where he reached the quarter-finals.

In March 2016, Liam Pitchford was part of the England team, alongside Paul Drinkhall and Sam Walker, which won bronze medals at the World Team Championships in Malaysia, England's first medal at that level since 1983 and the first time a newly promoted team had earned a podium place at the event.

Liam Pitchford competed for Team GB in the singles and team events at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Liam Pitchford reached the last 32 in the singles and, alongside Paul Drinkhall and Sam Walker, beat France to reach the quarter-finals of the team event, where GB were beaten by China.

In July 2017, Liam Pitchford helped the Falcons team to win the inaugural Ultimate Table Tennis league in India.

In February 2018, Liam Pitchford was part of the England squad alongside Paul Drinkhall, Sam Walker, David McBeath and Tom Jarvis which won bronze medals by reaching the semi-finals of the ITTF Team World Cup in front of a home crowd at the Copper Box Arena in London.

At the Commonwealth Games in Australia in 2018, Liam Pitchford won the gold medal in the men's doubles alongside Paul Drinkhall, the silver medal in the mixed doubles alongside Tin-Tin Ho and was part of the England squad which won men's team bronze, alongside Drinkhall, Sam Walker and David McBeath.

At the 2018 Bulgaria Open, Liam Pitchford beat current Olympic and World champion Ma Long in the first round in a 7 set match, arguably the biggest win of his career.

In 2021, one week before the World Table Tennis inaugural event WTT Doha, Liam Pitchford suffered a minor hand injury while looping a half-long ball in practice.

Liam Pitchford was upset by Darko Jorgic in the round of 32 in the men's singles event at the Tokyo Olympics.

Liam Pitchford reached the men's singles final, where he was beaten by Sharath Kamal Achanta of India.

Liam Pitchford became the first British table tennis athlete to appear at four Olympic Games when he competed at Paris 2024.

Liam Pitchford was defeated in the round of 32 bt 13th seed Darko Jorgic.

Liam Pitchford was selected as the No 1 overall pick by the Florida Crocs in the 2024 Major League Table Tennis Draft.