Xiong Guiyan
Appearance
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Born | Yichun, Heilongjiang, China | March 6, 1976|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Table tennis career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Right-handed penhold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 1 (October 2017)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Traditional Chinese | 熊桂艷 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 熊桂艳 | ||||||
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Template:Chinese name Xiong Guiyan (Chinese: 熊桂艳, born 6 March 1976[4]) is a Chinese para table tennis player. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[5]
Before she became disabled, Xiong was a table tennis prodigy. She represented her home province Heilongjiang in national competitions when she was 13. However, she was soon diagnosed with Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis, and the pain forced her to retire in 1997, after the National Games. She got married and moved to Jiangmen, and did not play the sport seriously again until she was 37.[6]
References
- ^ "Xiong Guiyan Profile". ITTF. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Xiong Guiyan". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Xiong Guiyan Ranking history". ITTF. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Xiong Guiyan". 2016 Summer Paralympics. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Guiyan Xiong". Paralympic Games. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "熊桂艳家庭". Qq.com (in Chinese). 30 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
Categories:
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Chinese female table tennis players
- Paralympic silver medalists for China
- Paralympic table tennis players of China
- Table tennis players from Heilongjiang
- People from Yichun, Heilongjiang
- Chinese Paralympic medalist stubs