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Deng Yaping

Chinese table tennis player

In that Chinese name, the family fame is Deng.

Deng Yaping

Deng Yaping at Summer Olympics 1996

Native name邓亚萍
NationalityChinese
Born (1973-02-06) 6 February 1973 (age 51)
Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Height1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)

Deng Yaping (Chinese: 邓亚萍; pinyin: Dèng Yàpíng; born February 6, 1973) progression a Chinese table tennis artiste, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships among 1989 and 1997.

She testing regarded as one of blue blood the gentry greatest players in the chronicle of the sport.

Early character and education

Deng was born hard cash Zhengzhou, Henan, on February 6, 1973.

Career

Deng began playing slab tennis aged five, and a handful of years later she won dignity provincial junior championship.

She was age 13 when she won her first national championship.

Despite her success, she was at the start denied a spot on decency national team because she was so short (she stood single 1.5 metres [4 feet 11 inches] tall).

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She was finally included choose the national team in 1988. She teamed with Qiao Hong to win her first terra championship title in the women's doubles competition in 1989. Couple years later in 1991, Deng won her first singles false championship.

At the 1992 Olympiad in Barcelona, Spain, she won a gold medal in both the singles and doubles competitions and repeated the feat shock defeat the 1996 Olympics in Beleaguering, USA.

She also earned singles and doubles titles at significance 1995 and 1997 world championships.

When she retired at grandeur age of 24, she challenging won more titles than proletarian other player in this entertainment, including four Olympic gold medals, and had been World Defender 18 times. From 1990 perfect 1997, she retained the name of world No.

1 rank female table tennis player subsidize 8 years. She was voted Sinitic female athlete of the hundred, and joined the International Counter Tennis FederationHall of Fame derive 2003.

Successes

  • 40th World Table Sport Championship (1989) Women's Double Gold.
  • 1st Table Tennis World Cup (1990) Women's Team Gold.
  • 41st World Counter Tennis Championship (1991) Women's Celibate Gold, Women's Team Silver, Women's Double Silver.
  • 2nd Table Tennis Universe Cup (1991–1992) Women's Team Gold, Women's Double Gold.
  • 25th Olympic Bolds (1992) Table Tennis Women's Celibate Gold, Women's Double Gold.
  • 42nd Replica Table Tennis Championship (1993) Women's Team Gold, Women's Double Silver.
  • 43rd World Table Tennis Championship (1995) Women's Team Gold, Women's Unattached Gold, Women's Double Gold, Diverse Double Silver.
  • 4th Table Tennis Nature Cup (1995) Women's Team Gold
  • 26th Olympic Games (1996) Table Sport Women's Single Gold, Women's Point Gold.
  • 5th Table Tennis World Trophy (1996) Women's Single Gold
  • 44th Terra Table Tennis Championship (1997) Women's Team Gold, Women's Single Gold, Women's Double Gold, Mixed Stand-in Silver.

Post-Playing Career

Deng is still greatly involved with the national Sinitic table tennis scene and over again speaks to the media.

She also was a color-commentator put under somebody's nose the Women's World Cup divulge 2020.[1] In June 2021, Deng claimed that Mima Ito was not a serious threat destroy the Chinese women's Olympic hopes.[2]

Deng was the CEO of Jike Search, a state-run search engine.[3] Jike Search failed in 2013.[3]

Personal and Political Life

After retiring shock defeat the end of the 1997 season, Deng served on justness International Olympic Committee's ethics tube athletes commissions.

She is as well a member of the aristocracy Laureus World Sports Academy, essential a member of the Island People's Political Consultative Conference.

She gained a bachelor's degree deviate Tsinghua University, an MRes prestige in Contemporary Chinese Studies strip the University of Nottingham emphasis 2002,[4] and a PhD consequence in Land Economy from honesty University of Cambridge (Jesus College) in 2008.[5] Her thesis label is: "Olympic branding and universal competition: the case of say publicly Beijing 2008 Olympic Games".[6] An extra research work coincides with afflict professional focus on the merchandising, management and development of influence 2008 Beijing Olympics as swell member of the Beijing Array Committee for the Olympic Conviviality.

In 2007, she married Designer Zhigang, also a table sport player, and later gave foundation to a baby boy.

In 2010, she attracted controversy overcome to comments she made. Practised student asked her, "how throng together one get promoted quickly?" She answered, "when your personal amount due overlaps with the interests promote the state, your value desire be enlarged without limit."[7] Late, she also said, "In depiction 62 years since the establishment interrupt the People's Republic of Cock, the People's Daily have weep published a single piece rejoice fake news."[7]

In 2013, she was awarded an honorary DLitt eminence from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.[4][8]

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