Jiao Zhimin

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Jiao Zhimin ( Chinese  焦志敏 ; * December 1, 1963 ) is a Chinese table tennis player who won bronze in women's singles and silver in doubles at the 1988 Olympic Games.

International success

Jiao Zhimin was nominated for the 1985 and 1987 World Championships . At the 1985 World Cup, she reached the semi-finals in both women's doubles with Guan Jianhua and mixed with Fan Changmao . Two years later she failed again in doubles - this time with He Zhili - in the semi-finals. On the other hand, she got into the final in a mixed with Jiang Jialiang , which was lost to Hui Jun / Geng Lijuan (China). With the Chinese team she became world champion in 1987.

At the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988, she won the bronze medal behind Chen Jing and Li Huifen , where she failed in the semifinals. In doubles with Chen Jing , she finished second, as she lost in the final against the Koreans Jung Hwa Hyun / Yang Young-ja .

In 1989, Jiao Zhimin ended her active career.

family

In 1989 Jiao Zhimin went to Switzerland to study. In the same year she married the South Korean table tennis player Ahn Jae-Hyung in Sweden , whom she met in 1984 and who won bronze in doubles at the 1988 Olympics. Their son An Byeong-Hu (born September 17, 1991) devoted himself to the game of golf. In 2009 he was the youngest player to win the American golf championship for amateurs.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1988  Niigata  JPN   silver  Quarter finals  silver   
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1986  Shenzhen  CHN   silver  Semifinals    1
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1984  Islamabad  PAH   Semifinals    Semifinals  1
CHN  Asian Cup  1987  Seoul  COR   1      
CHN  Asian Cup  1985  Singapore  SIN   1      
CHN  Asian Cup  1983  Wuxi  CHN   3      
CHN  Asian Games  1986  Seoul  COR   gold  silver    2
CHN  Olympic games  1988  Seoul  COR   bronze  Silver medal     
CHN  World Championship  1987  New Delhi  IND   last 16  Semifinals  silver  1
CHN  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   Quarter finals  Semifinals  Semifinals   

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chinese Sportswomen Marry International ( Memento from August 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed September 17, 2012)
  2. ↑ Jiao Zhimin results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 9, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Jiao, Zhimin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1963