Zhang Xiaoling
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Born | (1957-07-20) 20 July 1957 (age 67) Qinzhou,[1] Guangxi, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing style | Right-handed penhold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 1[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Traditional Chinese | 張小玲 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 张小玲 | ||||||
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Zhang Xiaoling (Chinese: 张小玲, born 20 July 1957)[4] is a Chinese retired para table tennis player who won 12 Paralympic medals from 1988 to 2008.
She laboured as a sent-down youth during the Cultural Revolution. While toiling one day in 1973, she seriously sprained her right foot, which was subsequently amputated due to no timely treatment.[1] In 1987, she won a gold medal at a national women's singles table tennis competition.[5]
Zhang represented China for the first time at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, and won gold in the open event. She competed in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, and won at least two medals – one in the singles event, one in the team event, and in 1992 and 1996 one in the open event – on every occasion. She represented China again at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but, for the first time, she only competed in the singles.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b Tan Jiangbo; Shen Quanchi (7 November 2018). "残奥五连冠张小玲的"搏斗"人生". People's Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Zhang Xiao Ling - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Zhang Xiao Ling - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Athens 2004 Paralympic Games - Table Tennis - Official Results Book". ipc-services.org. International Paralympic Committee. 19 September 2004.
- ^ a b "51-year-old Chinese to compete in sixth Paralympic Games". en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn. Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008 – via Xinhuanet.
External links
- Zhang Xiaoling at ITTF Para Table Tennis
- Zhang Xiaoling at the International Paralympic Committee
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