Doha: Taiwanese table tennis players Lin Yun-ju and Kao Cheng- secured a silver medal in the men's doubles at the 2025 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Qatar on Sunday, losing to their Japanese opponents in the final.

According to Focus Taiwan, the Taiwanese duo, the sixth-seeded men's doubles team in the International Table Tennis Federation's (ITTF) premier tournament, were defeated by the Japanese world No. 2 pairing of Hiroto Shinozuka and Shunsuke Togami 2-3 in the title match.

Lin and Kao, who were appearing at only their second international event as a doubles pairing, took an early lead by winning the first game 11-6. This was the first time in 12 years a men's table tennis duo from Taiwan has won a medal at the ITTF World Championships.

Taiwan had its best performance in the tournament when the men's doubles team of Chuang Chih-yuan and Chen Chien-an won the country's first gold medal in 2013.

The 23-year-old Lin and his 20-year-old partner teamed up for the first time at the Singapore Smash 2025, attracting a lot of attention with a runner-up finish in their debut tournament in February.