Chen Jing (table tennis player)

Chén Jìng ( Chinese  陳 靜  /  陈 静 ; born September 20, 1968 in Wuhan ) is a Chinese - Taiwanese table tennis player . She is the first Olympic champion in TT singles and two-time world champion with the Chinese team.

Career

Chen Jing started playing table tennis at the age of seven. She was sponsored by her school teacher, who also accepted her as a left-handed woman. After being appointed to the provincial selection in 1981 and to the national team in 1985, she first appeared internationally in an international match in Turkey in 1984. In 2001 the shakehand player ended her international career.

successes

Between 1985 and 2001, Chen Jing participated in 9 world championships . In 1985 she was only on the bench, but in 1987 she won the gold medal with the Chinese team, in individual she reached the quarterfinals, where she lost to future world champion He Zhili . At the next World Cup in 1989 she made it to the semi-finals in singles, in women's doubles she was runner-up in the women's doubles with Hu Xiaoxin , third in mixed with Chen Zhibin , and with the team she was again first. She won silver in 1993 in the individual and in 2000 with the team. At the World Championships in 1987, 1989 and 1999 she competed for China, in 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2001 she played for Taiwan, where she left in 1991.

She was nominated three times for the Summer Olympics . When table tennis was first represented in 1988 , she won her first gold medal in singles, in doubles she won silver with Jiao Zhimin . In 1996 she finished second and in 2000 third.

Stay in Europe

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Chen Jing played in Hungary for Statisztika Budapest . In 1996 she moved to the German Bundesliga for Team Galaxis Lübeck , but returned to Statisztika Budapest in 1997.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TPE	Asian Championship ATTU	1998	Osaka	JPN	Semifinals		Quarter finals
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1986	Shenzhen	CHN	last 16	Semifinals
TPE	Asian Cup	1993	Shunde	CHN	Quarter finals
TPE	Asian Games	1998	Bangkok	THA	Semifinals		Quarter finals
TPE	Asian Games	1994	Hiroshima	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Semifinals
TPE	ASIA TOP12	1999	Kish Island	IRI	Semifinals
TPE	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	bronze	last 16
TPE	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	Silver medal	Quarter finals
CHN	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	gold	Silver medal
TPE	Pro tour	2000	Toulouse	FRA	Semifinals	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro tour	2000	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	Semifinals	Semifinals
TPE	Pro tour	2000	Fort Lauderdale	United States	Semifinals	gold
TPE	Pro tour	2000	Kobe City	JPN	Semifinals	Semifinals
TPE	Pro tour	2000	Zagreb	HRV	Quarter finals	gold
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Prague	CZE	Quarter finals	gold
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona	SWE	last 32	last 16
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Lievin	FRA	gold	last 16
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Linz / Wels	AUT	Semifinals	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Kobe City	JPN	last 16	Rd 1
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Guilin	CHN	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Melbourne	OUT	gold	gold
TPE	Pro tour	1999	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	gold	Semifinals
TPE	Pro tour	1998	Kota Kinabalu	MAS	last 16	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro tour	1997	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 32	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro tour	1996	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	gold
TPE	Pro tour	1996	Kettering	CLOSELY	silver	Semifinals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1999	Sydney	OUT	gold	Quarter finals
TPE	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	last 16	last 64	last 32	8th
TPE	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				2
CHN	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16
TPE	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals
TPE	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	Quarter finals	last 16	last 32
TPE	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	silver	Quarter finals	last 64
CHN	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	Semifinals	silver	Semifinals	1
CHN	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	Quarter finals	last 16	last 16	1
TPE	World cup	2001	Wuhu	CHN	9-12. space
TPE	World cup	2000	Phnom Penh	CAM	4th
CHN	World cup	1997	Shanghai	CHN	5-8. space

swell

• Yi Gaochao: Chen Jing's star rose in Seoul - With links to gold , DTS magazine , 1988/11 p. 9
• Rahul Nelson: the story of Chen Jing: Little hard work, a lot of price - Lazy, but good , DTS magazine , 1993/7 pp. 35–36

Web link

• Chen Jing in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 p. 12
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8 pp. 14–15 + 1998/4 p. 22
3. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 9, 2011)  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Jing is the first name.