Zhang Xiaoling
Born (1957-07-20) 20 July 1957
Qinzhou,[1] Guangxi, China
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed penhold
Disability class8
Highest ranking1[2]
Medal record
Women's para table tennis
Representing  China[3]
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place1988 SeoulOpen singles
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaSingles C9
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaTeams C10
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaTeams C6–10
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaOpen singles C6–10
Gold medal – first place2000 SydneySingles C6–8
Gold medal – first place2000 SydneyTeams C6–10
Gold medal – first place2004 AthensSingles C6–8
Gold medal – first place2004 AthensTeams C6–10
Silver medal – second place1992 BarcelonaOpen singles C6–10
Bronze medal – third place1996 AtlantaSingles C6–8
Bronze medal – third place2008 BeijingSingles C8
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2002 TaipeiSingles C8
Bronze medal – third place2002 TaipeiOpen singles standing
Bronze medal – third place2006 MontreuxSingles C8
FESPIC Games
Gold medal – first place1999 BangkokSingles C8
Gold medal – first place1999 BangkokTeams C6–10
Gold medal – first place2006 Kuala LumpurSingles C6–8
Silver medal – second place1999 BangkokOpen singles standing
Silver medal – second place2002 BusanOpen singles standing
Silver medal – second place2006 Kuala LumpurOpen singles standing
Bronze medal – third place2002 BusanSingles C7–10
Asia and Oceania Championships
Gold medal – first place2005 Kuala LumpurSingles C6–8
Gold medal – first place2007 SeoulSingles C8
Bronze medal – third place2005 Kuala LumpurOpen singles standing
FESPIC Championships
Gold medal – first place1999 TaipeiSingles C6–8
Gold medal – first place1999 TaipeiDoubles C6–10
Bronze medal – third place1999 TaipeiOpen singles standing
Zhang Xiaoling
Traditional Chinese張小玲
Simplified Chinese张小玲

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

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ "Zhang Xiao Ling - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Zhang Xiao Ling - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 "51-year-old Chinese to compete in sixth Paralympic Games". en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn. Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008 – via Xinhuanet.


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