Deng Yaping

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Deng Yaping ( Chinese  鄧亞萍  /  邓亚萍 , Pinyin Dèng Yàpíng , born February 5, 1973 in Zhengzhou , Henan Province ) is a Chinese table tennis player . She was three times world champion in singles, in total she won nine gold medals at world championships. She was Olympic champion four times.

In 1997 she resigned from competitive sport when she was elected to the International Olympic Committee .

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

Career

Deng Yapping's father, Deng Dasong, was master of the six southern provinces of China in the mid-1950s. When he was five years old, he took his daughter to table tennis. In 1986 she won the Chinese championship in doubles with Li Qi. In 1988 she won the Asian Championships. She was then nominated for the national team. A year later she took part in a World Cup for the first time, where she reached the round of 16 in singles and was world champion in doubles. In 1997, she was in the Athletes' Commission of the IOC appointed.

In 1998 Deng Yaping ended her active career.

Deng Yaping is a right-handed counterattack player and holds the racket in a shakehand style. She is only 1.49 m tall.

successes

After the end of the sports career

Deng Yaping is a member of the Chinese Communist Party . In Nottingham she studied the history of China until 2002 and graduated with a master's degree. In November 2008 she received her PhD in Economics from Cambridge University . In 2010 she became managing director of the unsuccessful search engine Volkssuche , and since the end of 2015 she has been visiting professor at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1994  Tianjin  CHN   gold  silver  gold  1
CHN  Asian Cup  1992  Hong Kong  HKG   1      
CHN  Asian Cup  1991  Dhaka  BAN   2      
CHN  Asian Cup  1988  Manila  PHI   1      
CHN  Asian Games  1994  Hiroshima  JPN   silver  silver  gold  1
CHN  Asian Games  1990  Beijing  CHN   gold  silver  gold  1
CHN  ASIA TOP8  1993  Huangshi City  CHN   1      
CHN  Olympic games  1996  Atlanta  United States   gold  gold     
CHN  Olympic games  1992  Barcelona  ESP   gold  gold     
CHN  Pro tour  1997  Ipoh  MAS   gold  silver     
CHN  Pro tour  1997  Melbourne  OUT   gold  gold     
CHN  Pro tour  1996  Boras  SWE   gold  gold     
CHN  Pro tour  1996  Lyon  FRA   gold  gold     
CHN  Pro tour  1996  Xi'an  CHN   Semifinals  Semifinals     
CHN  Pro Tour Grand Finals  1996  Tian Jin  CHN   gold  gold     
CHN  World Championship  1997  Manchester  CLOSELY   gold  gold  silver  1
CHN  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   gold  gold  silver  1
CHN  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   last 32  silver  Quarter finals  1
CHN  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   gold  silver  Quarter finals  2
CHN  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 16  gold  last 32   
CHN  World cup  1996  Hong Kong  HKG   gold       
CHN  World Doubles Cup  1992  Las Vegas  United States     gold     
CHN  World Doubles Cup  1990  Seoul  COR     Semifinals     
CHN  WTC World Team Cup  1995  Atlanta  United States         1
CHN  WTC World Team Cup  1991  Barcelona  ESP         1
CHN  WTC World Team Cup  1990  Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig  JPN         1

swell

  • Gerhard Claar / China Daily: The smallest is the largest , DTS magazine , 1991/6 page 55

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/3 page 42
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/2, page 19
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 2003/1 page 7
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2016/3 page 52
  5. ↑ Deng Yaping results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Deng is the family name here, Yaping is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Deng, Yaping
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhengzhou ( Henan Province )