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Jean-Philippe Gatien (Alès, October 16, 1968) is a former French table tennis player. He became the world champion in 1993 by defeating in the final Jean-Michel Saive. He was the third left-handed world champion in the history of the World Cup after Stellan Bengtsson (1971) and Seiji Ono (1979). A year later, the shake hand player took the World Cup. Sporty career
Gatiens sports highlights include a golden (1997, in Eindhoven) and four bronze medals (1995, 1996, 1999, 2000) on the Europa Top-12. In 1994 he won the World Cup in Taipei. Gatien took a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where he finished in the final loss of Jan-Ove Waldner (3-0). At the 2000 Summer Olympics 2000 he teamed up with Patrick Chila to a bronze medal in the doubles. Together they won the European title in doubles in 2000, which he won for two years in the mixed double with Wang Xiaoming. He became France's thirteen-time champion.
Gatien played in a league match in the French Pro A for UTT Levallois, which won the ETTU Cup in 2004. He stopped in 2004 with active table tennis. After his active sports career, he founded Ping Attitude, an organization with which he tries to help disadvantaged young people reach a high level of table tennis. ITTF Pro Tour
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