Lin Huiqing

Lin Huiqing ( Chinese  林慧卿 , Pinyin Lín Huìqīng ; * 1941 ) is a former Chinese table tennis player . She won the world title five times.

Career

Lin Huiqing has been nominated four times to participate in world championships . Together with Zheng Minzhi she became world champion in doubles in 1965 and 1971 . In 1965 she won gold with the Chinese team, in singles she won silver behind the Japanese Naoko Fukazu ( 深 津 尚 子 ), in mixed with Zhang Xielin ( 张燮林 , Zhāng Xièlín , Chang Shih-Lin ) she reached the final. At the 1971 World Cup, she won two titles in addition to the double competition. She became world champion in singles and mixed (with Zhang Xielin). With the team she reached second place.

She was unable to take part in the 1973 World Cup due to a liver disease. In the same year she ended her career as a competitive athlete.

In 1966, Lin Huiqing won the Chinese championship in singles. In 1999 she was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

From 1973 Lin Huiqing coached the Chinese women's national team. In 1981 she went to Japan and has lived in Hong Kong since 1984.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	gold	gold	gold	2
CHN	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	silver	gold	silver	1
CHN	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 16	last 64	last 32
CHN	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 64	last 32	last 64

Web links

• Biography (accessed August 7, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.ittf.com/museum/Hof/HoF.html
2. ↑ Tim Boggan in History of US Table Tennis Vol VI (accessed November 29, 2013)
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/4 p. 7
4. ↑ Lin Huiqing Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 11, 2011)

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