Ni Xialian

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ni.

Ni Xialian
Personal information
Born	(1963-07-04) 4 July 1963 Shanghai, China
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
Table tennis career
Playing style	Penhold
Highest ranking	6 (25 May 1985)
Medal record Representing Luxembourg European Games 2019 Minsk Singles European Table Tennis Championships 1998 Eindhoven Singles 2002 Zagreb Singles 2002 Zagreb Mixed Doubles 2000 Bremen Doubles 2007 Belgrade Singles 2018 Alicante Doubles Europe Top-12 1996 Charleroi Singles 1997 Eindhoven Singles 1998 Halmstad Singles 2001 Wels Singles 1999 Split Singles 2000 Alassio Singles 2002 Rotterdam Singles 2012 Lyon Singles Games of the Small States of Europe 2009 Cyprus Singles 2009 Cyprus Doubles 2009 Cyprus Team 2011 Liechtenstein Singles 2011 Liechtenstein Doubles 2011 Liechtenstein Team 2013 Luxembourg Doubles 2013 Luxembourg Team 2015 Iceland Team Representing China World Table Tennis Championships 1983 Tokyo Team 1983 Tokyo Mixed Doubles 1985 Gothenburg Doubles 1983 Tokyo Doubles Asian Cup 1984 New Delhi Singles 1985 Singapore Singles

Ni Xialian (Chinese: 倪夏莲; born 4 July 1963) is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who represents Luxembourg since 1991. She was born in Shanghai, and resides in Ettelbruck.

Career

She won team and mixed doubles gold medals in the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships.

She moved to Germany in 1989 and settled down in Luxembourg two years later. Her husband, Tommy Danielsson, is her coach and training partner.

She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition.

She qualified for competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's singles competition. She lost 4-2 to 16-year-old Ariel Hsing from the USA in the 2nd round in the London games.

She competed for Luxembourg at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's singles competition. She lost 4-2 to Feng Tianwei of Singapore in the 3rd round. She was the flag bearer for Luxembourg during the closing ceremony.

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Xialian will become the oldest Olympian table tennis player.

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

External links

• NI Xia Lian at World Table Tennis
  • "NI Xia Lian at old.ittf.com". Archived from the original on 11 January 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  • "NI Xia Lian at ittfranking.com". Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Xia Lian NI at Olympics.com
• Xia Lian Ni at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)