Ni Xialian
Ni Xialian | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Shanghai, China | 4 July 1963
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st) |
Playing style | Penhold |
Highest ranking | 8 (April 2002)[1] |
Medal record |
Ni Xialian (Chinese: 倪夏莲; born 4 July 1963) is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Luxembourg. She was born in Shanghai, and resides in Ettelbruck.
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.[2] She was the flag bearer for Luxembourg during the closing ceremony.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "ITTF World ranking". www.ittf.com. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony". 21 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
External links
- NI Xia Lian at World Table Tennis
- NI Xia Lian at old.ittf.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-01-11)
- NI Xia Lian at ittfranking.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-07-19)
- Xia Lian NI at Olympics.com
- Xia Lian Ni at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Use dmy dates from August 2012
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Luxembourgian table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players of Luxembourg
- Chinese emigrants to Luxembourg
- Table tennis players from Shanghai
- European Games competitors for Luxembourg
- Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
- Chinese female table tennis players
- Naturalised table tennis players
- Naturalised citizens of Luxembourg
- Table tennis biography stubs
- Luxembourgian sportspeople stubs