Biography of China Table Tennis

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The following is a biography of China table tennis player Zhang Yining:

Zhang Yining was born in Beijing on October 5, 1981. Her original name was "Zhang Ning". Since there were two children in the kindergarten who were also called "Zhang Ning", her mother added the word "Yi" in the middle of her name, hoping that she would be happy forever.

Zhang Yining was active when she was young and liked to play with boys. In 1987, her uncle, who loved table tennis, led her to the table tennis team of Beijing Dongdan Amateur Sports School, and from then on, she began the road of table tennis. When she was practicing at the Dongcheng Sports School in Beijing, she lived near Taoranting Park in the south of the city. At that time, the traffic was inconvenient, but she and her family crossed three districts every day and persisted in training for four years. When she was nine years old, she won her first championship. At that time, she was facing a disadvantage in the finals. She cried and competed. Her opponent was confused by her posture, and she finally won.

Zhang Yining joined the Beijing team in 1991 and the national team in 1993. In 1995, in the national junior competition, she showed the quality of a professional athlete and won the national junior champion, Donna. In the 1997 Eighth National Games, she defeated many champions in the team competition. In 1999, she won the second place in the women's singles and third place in the women's doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships. In 2000, she won the women's team championship and the women's singles runner-up in the 45th World Table Tennis Championships, but unfortunately missed the qualification to participate in the Sydney Olympic Games.

In 2001, she won the women's team championship in the 46th World Table Tennis Championship, third place in women's singles and women's doubles. In the same year, she won the World Cup women's singles championship and the women's team championship in the 9th National Games, second place in women's singles. In 2002, she was the champion of the women's singles in the World Cup, the women's singles in the International Table Tennis Federation finals, the runner-up in the women's doubles, and the women's singles champion in the Busan Asian Games. In 2004, she first won the women's team championship in the World Table Tennis Championships with her teammates, then surpassed Wang Nan to win the gold medal in the women's singles at the Athens Olympics. She also won the championship in the doubles event with Wang Nan. In 2005, she won the women's singles championship in the 48th World Table Tennis Championship, achieving the Grand Slam of the individual World Championship, Olympic Games and World Cup. In 2006, he led the China team to the 16th time in the World Table Tennis Championships in Germany to win the Copperon Cup, ranking first in the world at the end of the year. In 2008, she won the women's team championship with Guo Yue and Wang Nan at the Beijing Olympics. She defeated Wang Nan in the women's singles final and successfully defended her title.

On March 31, 2011, Zhang Yining officially retired and went to the United States for further studies. On October 30,2019, she gave birth to a son weighing 3.23 kilograms. Her husband was Xu Wei, a Hong Kong financial businessman. While watching the Olympics, you can also read the wonderful novels related to the Olympics!