Deng Yaping

Deng Yaping (Chinese邓亚萍/邓亚萍, Pinyin Deng Yaping, born February 5, 1973 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province) is a Chinese table tennis player.

She was three times world champion in singles, she won a total of nine gold medals at the World Championships. Four times she became Olympic champion.

In 1997 she retired from competitive sports, as she was elected to the International Olympic Committee.

Career

Deng Deng Dasong Yapings father was the mid-1950s masters of the six southern provinces of China. The age of five, he led his daughter to play table tennis. In 1986, she won the championship in China in a double with Li Qi. In 1988, she won at the Asian Championships. Subsequently, she was nominated for the national team. A year later she first participated in a World Cup, where they came to the last sixteen in singles and was in a double world champion. In 1997 she was appointed to the Athletes' Commission of the IOC.

1998 ended Deng Yaping their active career.

Deng Yaping is right-handed and counter- player and holds the bat in shakehand style. It is only 1.49 m tall.

Achievements

  • Participation in five World Table Tennis Championships World Cup 1989: gold in doubles with Qiao Hong
  • World Cup 1991: Silver with women's team gold in singles, silver in doubles with Qiao Hong
  • World Cup 1993: Gold with women's team, silver in doubles with Qiao Hong
  • World Cup 1995: Gold with women's team gold in singles gold in doubles with Qiao Hong, silver in mixed doubles with Kong Linghui
  • World Cup 1997: Gold with women's team gold in singles gold in doubles with Yang Ying, silver in mixed doubles with Kong Linghui

Others

Deng Yaping is a member of the Communist Party of China. In Nottingham, she studied until 2002, the history of China and graduated with a master's degree from. In November 2008 she received a Ph.D. in economics.

Deng Yaping is not to be confused with the Chinese table tennis player Ding Yaping.

Results from the ITTF database

Swell

  • Gerhard Claar / China Daily: The smallest is the greatest magazine DTS, 1991/6 p.55
1989 World Table Tennis Championships 1991 World Table Tennis Championships 1993 World Table Tennis Championships 1995 World Table Tennis Championships 1997 World Table Tennis Championships Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics Anna Sipos Gertrude Pritzi Gizella Farkas Ge Xinai Tong Ling (table tennis) Cao Yanhua Wang Nan (table tennis) Guo Yue (table tennis) Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia Chen Jing (table tennis) List of Olympic medalists in table tennis
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