Chen Jing (table tennis)
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| Nationality | China Republic of China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 September 1968 Wuhan, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | South China Normal University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chen Jing (simplified Chinese: 陈静; traditional Chinese: 陳靜; pinyin: Chén Jìng; born 20 September 1968 in Wuhan, Hubei) is a retired table tennis player and Olympic champion for China, and later Olympic medalist for Chinese Taipei.
Early life
[edit]Chen Jing was born on September 20, 1968, in Wuhan, Hubei Province. At the age of 11, she was the champion of the youth bracket in a table tennis tournament hosted by the Children's Palace in Wuhan, and was selected for the Hubei Province team. At the age of 18, she was selected for the Chinese national team.
Professional career
[edit]She received a golden medal in singles and a silver medal in doubles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[1][2]
In 1991, she defected to Taiwan after failing to make the national team in 1990, where she won the Taiwanese national table tennis competition and joined the Taiwanese national team. Competing for Chinese Taipei, she received a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,[3] the first medal for Taiwan in the table tennis category. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Personal life
[edit]In 1992, she started studying at Princeton University, where she assumed a position as the coach of the Princeton table tennis team and studied English. After the 1996 Olympics, she returned to Taipei Physical Education College to obtain her masters' degree. In 2003, she started studying at South China Normal University to obtain her doctorate in sports psychology.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ "1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Tabletennis" Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 7, 2008)
- ^ "1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Table Tennis" Archived 2008-08-22 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 7, 2008)
- ^ "陈静 - 运动与休闲学系" (in Chinese (China)). 华南师范大学体育科学学院. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
External links
[edit]- Chen Jing at World Table Tennis
- Chen Jing at Olympedia
- Chen Jing at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived)
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Chinese female table tennis players
- Olympic gold medalists for China
- Olympic silver medalists for Taiwan
- Olympic table tennis players for China
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players for Taiwan
- Olympic medalists in table tennis
- Asian Games medalists in table tennis
- Table tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Taiwanese people from Hubei
- Table tennis players from Wuhan
- Naturalised table tennis players
- Taiwanese female table tennis players
- Olympic silver medalists for China
- Olympic bronze medalists for Taiwan
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics