Zhang Xiaoling
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Born | Qinzhou,[1] Guangxi, China | July 20, 1957|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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) 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.[4]
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.[4]
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". ITTF. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Zhang Xiao Ling Profile". ITTF. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ a b "51-year-old Chinese to compete in sixth Paralympic Games" Archived September 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Xinhua, 9 September 2008.
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- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
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