| 词条 | Matthew Syed |
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|name = Matthew Syed |image = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1970|11|2}} |birth_place = Reading |death_date = |death_place = |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = Sportscaster, author |nationality = English |module ={{infobox sportsperson |embed=yes | medaltemplates ={{Medal|Sport|Men's Table Tennis}}{{Medal|Country|{{ENG}}}}{{Medal|Gold|2002 Manchester|Men's - Team}} }} }} Matthew Philip Syed (born 2 November 1970) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He has worked for The Times newspaper since 1999. He has published three books, Bounce in 2010, Black Box Thinking in 2015, and You Are Awesome in 2018. Prior to his journalistic career, Syed competed as an English table tennis international, and was the English number one for many years. He was three times the men's singles champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships[1] (in 1997, 2000 and 2001), and also competed for Great Britain in two Olympic Games, at Barcelona in 1992 and at Sydney in 2000.[2] Early lifeSyed was born in Reading. His father, Abbas Syed, is a Pakistani emigrant to Britain who converted from Shia Islam to Christianity, and his mother is Welsh.[3][4] He attended the Maiden Erlegh School in Earley near Reading, then studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a prizewinning first-class degree in PPE in 1995. He is now married (to Charlie Guthrie) and a father to two young children called Evie and Teddy[5] Sporting careerA right-handed table-tennis player, Syed was the top ranked player in England for nearly 10 years. He won many titles with his usually defensive style. He reached his top world ranking of 25 at the end of 1998. He reached the final of the European Youth Championships in 1985, losing to Dmitry Mazunov. He was a member of the English team that won the European title in 1986. He represented Great Britain in the men's singles at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, but failed to reach the second knockout stage each time. He says that he "choked" at the Sydney Olympics: "when I walked out into the mega-watt light of the competition arena, I could hardly hit the ball."[6] He was English champion four times, in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001. He also won the men's singles event at three consecutives Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, in 1997 in Glasgow, 2000 in Singapore and 2001 in Delhi, and also won three titles as a member of the English men's team in 1994, 1997 and 2000. He was also a member of the England men's team that won the gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Author and commentatorSyed has worked as a commentator for the BBC and Eurosport, and as a journalist for The Times since 1999. He is a regular pundit on radio and television, commentating on sporting, cultural and political issues. His film China and Table Tennis, made for the BBC, won bronze medal at the Olympic Golden Rings ceremony in Lausanne[1] in 2008. As a sports writer he won Sports Feature Writer of the Year at the SJA Awards in 2008[7] and Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2009. His first book, Bounce, was published by HarperCollins in May 2010; it won the 'Best New Writer' category of the British Sports Book Awards (2011).[8] His style has been mocked by satirical magazine Private Eye.[9] In his second book, Black Box Thinking, he argues that the key to success is a positive attitude to failure; it was published by John Murray in 2015. Syed is managing director of a sports marketing company. From 1999, he has worked as a Marketing Consultant for the English Table Tennis Association based in Hastings. He was one of the co-founders of TTK Greenhouse, a sports-related charity. Syed hosts a BBC Radio 5 Live podcast called Flintoff, Savage & The Ping Pong Guy. Alongside him on the podcast are ex-England cricketer Andrew Flintoff and former Blackburn Rovers captain Robbie Savage. Current and hot sporting topics are discussed on the podcast.[10] In 2016 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Liberal Arts by Abertay University in Dundee.[11] His book You Are Awesome was published in 2018. The publisher describes it as "a positive and empowering guide to help children build resilience".[12] PoliticsSyed stood as the Labour candidate in the 2001 UK General Election in Wokingham, coming third in a safe Conservative seat.[13] Syed won a place on the Labour Party's shortlist to succeed Ashok Kumar for the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in the 2010 UK General Election. However, the party selected Tom Blenkinsop, who had worked in Kumar's constituency office for six years.[14] Books
| ref={{harvid|Syed|2010}} | last1=Syed |first1=Matthew | title=Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the science of success | publisher=HarperCollins | location= | year=2010 | pages=312pp | nopp=y | isbn=978-0-06-172375-9
| ref={{harvid|Syed|2015}} | last1=Syed |first1=Matthew | title=Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do | publisher=Portfolio | location= | year=2015 | pages=336pp | nopp=y | isbn=978-1591848226
| ref={{harvid|Syed|2017}} | last1=Syed |first1=Matthew | title=The Greatest: What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Success | publisher=John Murray | location= | year=2017 | pages= | nopp= | isbn=978-1473653665
| ref={{harvid|Syed|2019}} | last1=Syed |first1=Matthew | title=You Are Awesome | publisher=John Murray | location= | year=2019 | others = Illustrated by Toby Triumph | pages=160pp | nopp=y | isbn=978-1492687535 See also
References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.personallyspeakingbureau.com/speaker/matthew-syed/ |title=Matthew Syed – Award Winning Journalist, Best-Selling Author, & Broadcaster|accessdate=11 March 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=2964 |title=Matthew Syed |accessdate=23 August 2008 |work=olympics.org.uk |publisher=British Olympic Association}} 3. ^{{cite news|author=Syed, Matthew|title=My father, the immigrant|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3931501.ece|accessdate=10 October 2015|work=The Times|date=30 November 2013}} 4. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matthew-syed-an-unlikely-hero-184779.html | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Matthew Syed: An unlikely hero | date=17 July 2002 | accessdate=13 January 2019|author=Jacobson, Howard}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.matthewsyed.co.uk/about-me/|title=About Mathew Syed|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 6. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17874450 | work=BBC News | title=Should people accept that pressure is a fact of life? | date=1 May 2012}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=15082&Category=|title= Thirty years on another milestone for Matthew Syed at Oscars celebration|date=25 March 2008|first=Ian|last=Marshall|accessdate=4 November 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327073041/http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=15082&Category=|archivedate=27 March 2008|df=dmy-all}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.britishsportsbookawards.co.uk |title=Prior winners |publisher=British Sports Book Awards |author= |date= |accessdate=27 November 2012}} 9. ^Private Eye, "Hackwatch", issue 1287, April 2011. 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fr7t1|title=Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy|publisher=BBC|accessdate=31 March 2017}} 11. ^https://www.abertay.ac.uk/news/2016/abertay-announces-honorary-graduates/ 12. ^https://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781526361332 13. ^{{cite news |title=Vote2001 Results & Constituencies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/639.stm |work=BBC News |accessdate=23 August 2008 }} 14. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7984771.Candidate_chosen_to_replace_late_MP/ |title=Tom Blenkinsop, a campaign manager with steel union Community, chosen |date=5 April 2010 |accessdate=5 April 2010 |work=The Northern Echo |first=Graeme |last=Hetherington}} External links
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