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Chen Jing (Chinese: 陈静; pinyin: Chén Jìng; born 20 September 1968 in Wuhan, Hubei) is a retired table tennis player and Olympic champion for China, and later Olympic medalist for Chinese Taipei.




Early life


Chen Jing was born on September 20, 1968, in Wuhan, Hubei Province. At the age of 11, she was the champion of the youth bracket in a table tennis tournament hosted by the Children's Palace in Wuhan, and was selected for the Hubei Province team. At the age of 18, she was selected for the Chinese national team.




Professional career


She received a golden medal in singles and a silver medal in doubles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
In 1991, she defected to Taiwan after failing to make the national team in 1990, where she won the Taiwanese national table tennis competition and joined the Taiwanese national team. Competing for Chinese Taipei, she received a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the first medal for Taiwan in the table tennis category. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.




Personal life


In 1992, she started studying at Princeton University, where she assumed a position as the coach of the Princeton table tennis team and studied English. After the 1996 Olympics, she returned to Taipei Physical Education College to obtain her masters' degree. In 2003, she started studying at South China Normal University to obtain her doctorate in sports psychology.




See also


List of table tennis players
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Chire Koyama




References






External links


Chen Jing at World Table Tennis
Chen Jing at Olympedia
Chen Jing at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived)

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