Zhang Xiaoling

Zhang Xiaoling
Born (1957-07-20) 20 July 1957
Qinzhou, Guangxi, China
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed penhold
Disability class8
Highest ranking1
Medal record
Women's para table tennis
Representing  China
Paralympic Games
1988 SeoulOpen singles
1992 BarcelonaSingles C9
1992 BarcelonaTeams C10
1996 AtlantaTeams C6–10
1996 AtlantaOpen singles C6–10
2000 SydneySingles C6–8
2000 SydneyTeams C6–10
2004 AthensSingles C6–8
2004 AthensTeams C6–10
1992 BarcelonaOpen singles C6–10
1996 AtlantaSingles C6–8
2008 BeijingSingles C8
World Championships
2002 TaipeiSingles C8
2002 TaipeiOpen singles standing
2006 MontreuxSingles C8
FESPIC Games
1999 BangkokSingles C8
1999 BangkokTeams C6–10
2006 Kuala LumpurSingles C6–8
1999 BangkokOpen singles standing
2002 BusanOpen singles standing
2006 Kuala LumpurOpen singles standing
2002 BusanSingles C7–10
Asia and Oceania Championships
2005 Kuala LumpurSingles C6–8
2007 SeoulSingles C8
2005 Kuala LumpurOpen singles standing
FESPIC Championships
1999 TaipeiSingles C6–8
1999 TaipeiDoubles C6–10
1999 TaipeiOpen singles standing
Zhang Xiaoling
Traditional Chinese張小玲
Simplified Chinese张小玲
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhāng Xiǎolíng

Zhang Xiaoling (Chinese: 张小玲, born 20 July 1957) is a Chinese retired para table tennis player who won 12 Paralympic medals from 1988 to 2008.

She laboured as a sent-down youth during the Cultural Revolution. While toiling one day in 1973, she seriously sprained her right foot, which was subsequently amputated due to no timely treatment. In 1987, she won a gold medal at a national women's singles table tennis competition.

Zhang represented China for the first time at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, and won gold in the open event. She competed in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, and won at least two medals – one in the singles event, one in the team event, and in 1992 and 1996 one in the open event – on every occasion. She represented China again at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but, for the first time, she only competed in the singles.

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