Long ping

Long ping
Lang Ping as coach April 2, 2008
portrait
Date of birth	December 10, 1960
place of birth	Beijing , China
size	1.84 m
position	External attack
National team
1978-1990	A national team
successes
1981 1982 1984 1985 1990	World Cup Winner in Japan World Champion in Peru Olympic Champion Los Angeles World Cup Winner in Japan Vice World Champion in China
As of September 12, 2011

Lang Ping ( Chinese  郎平 ; born December 10, 1960 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) is a former Chinese volleyball player and coach.

Lang Ping played in the Chinese national team as an outside attacker ("Iron Hammer") and won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . She was world cup winner in Japan in 1981 and world champion in Peru in 1982 . In 1985 she was again world cup winner in Japan and in 1990 vice world champion in China .

In her coaching career, Lang Ping won the silver medal with the Chinese national team at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and became vice world champion in Japan in 1998 . As the coach of Volley Modena , she became Italian champion in 2000. With the US national team , Lang Ping won the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in her hometown of Beijing . Since 2013 she has been coaching the Chinese women's national team again. In 2016 she won Olympic gold with the Chinese women in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2020, Joan Chen published the documentary The Iron Hammer Lang's Career and Life.

In 2002 Lang Ping was inducted into the "Volleyball Hall of Fame".

Web links

• Lang Ping in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 'The Iron Hammer' documentary featuring Lang Ping premieres 7 June. In: Olympic Channel. May 26, 2020, accessed on May 28, 2020 . 
2. ^ The Iron Hammer. In: San Francisco International Film Festival. Retrieved May 28, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

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