Profile details
- Born
- 8 Jan 1993
- Birthplace
- Chennai
- State listed
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India
- Plays
- Right-handed
- Sport
- Table Tennis
- Discipline
- Racquet
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
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Honours & Awards
- ▸Arjuna Award
Competition Appearances
3 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·2020 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- ·2018 Asian Games
- ·2018 Commonwealth Games
Career Timeline
- 2018Competed at 2018 Asian Games
- 2018Competed at 2018 Commonwealth Games
- 2020Competed at table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's singles
Statistics
About
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is one of the highest ranked Indian men's singles players in the sport, currently ranked at 51 in the world as of 2 February 2026. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back gold medals in the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games. In May 2019, Sathiyan attained his career best World ranking of 24 and became the first Indian paddler ever to break into the World Top-25 ITTF rankings.
Biography adapted from Sathiyan Gnanasekaran on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Snapshot taken — where the text describes a role or a club in the present tense, read it as of that date.
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