Zhang Li (table tennis)
Chinese table tennis player (1951–2019)
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Zhang Li (Chinese: 张立; pinyin: Zhāng Lì; Wade–Giles: Chang Li; 3 May 1951[1] – 13 February 2019) was a female international table tennis player from China.[2]
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| Nationality |  China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 May 1951 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 February 2019 (aged 67) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
From 1973 to 1979 she won ten medals in the World Table Tennis Championships and several medals in the Asian Table Tennis Championships.[3]
The ten World Championship medals[4] included four gold medals; one in the singles at the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships with Zhang Deying[5] and three more in the Corbillon Cup (team event) for China.[6][7]
Personal life
After retiring from competition, Zhang and her husband Li Zhenshi moved to the US, where they directed the World Champions Table Tennis Academy in San Jose, California.[8] She died on 13 February 2019.[9]
