Zheng Minzhi
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Zheng Minzhi, 1965. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1945 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zheng Minzhi also known as Cheng Min-chih is a former international table tennis player from China.[1]
Table tennis career
Between 1965 and 1973 she won six medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2] She later became a table tennis referee and coach.
Zheng Minzhi started playing table tennis when she was 12. She was selected for a sports school at 14, she and later attended a national sports institute. In 1965, she and her doubles partner Lin Huiqing won the gold medal at the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles in Yugoslavia. She was also part of the Chinese women's team that won the Corbillon Cup (team event) gold medal.[3][4]
Competition was banned for four years during the Cultural Revolution, and while training was banned, Zheng practised on her own in secret.[5]
She and Lin returned to the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Japan, again winning the women's doubles [6][7] and gaining a silver medal in the singles.[8]
Following her successes at the World Table Tennis Championships, Zheng participated in ping-pong diplomacy, visiting the United States in 1972. One year later she won her sixth and final medal at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships, a silver medal in the Corbillon Cup (team event).[9]
Personal life
She met her husband, a specialist in shogi, at a Shanghai sports school. They have a son.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ ZHENG Minzhi/CHENG Min-Chih (CHN)
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ "List of Winners". All About Table Tennis.
- ^ a b Peck, Stacey (1985). Halls of Jade, Walls of Stone: Women in China Today. New York: F. Watts. pp. 41–45. ISBN 0-531-09790-0.
- ^ "Women's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Women's singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
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- 1928: Fanchette Flamm (AUT) & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1929: Erika Metzger & Mona Rüster (GER)
- 1930: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1931: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1932: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1933: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1934: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1935: Mária Mednyánszky & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1936: Marie Kettnerová & Marie Šmídová (TCH)
- 1937: Vlasta Depetrisová & Věra Votrubcová (TCH)
- 1938: Vlasta Depetrisová & Věra Votrubcová (TCH)
- 1939: Hilde Bussmann & Gertrude Pritzi (GER)
- 1947: Gizella Farkas (HUN) & Gertrude Pritzi (AUT)
- 1948: Margaret Franks & Vera Thomas (ENG)
- 1949: Helen Elliot (SCO) & Gizella Farkas (HUN)
- 1950: Dora Beregi (ENG) & Helen Elliot (SCO)
- 1951: Diane Rowe & Rosalind Rowe (ENG)
- 1952: Shizuka Narahara & Tomie Nishimura (JPN)
- 1953: Gizella Gervai (HUN) & Angelica Rozeanu (ROU)
- 1954: Diane Rowe & Rosalind Rowe (ENG)
- 1955: Angelica Rozeanu & Ella Zeller (ROU)
- 1956: Angelica Rozeanu & Ella Zeller (ROU)
- 1957: Lívia Mossóczy & Agnes Simon (HUN)
- 1959: Taeko Namba & Kazuko Yamaizumi (JPN)
- 1961: Maria Alexandru & Georgeta Pitică (ROU)
- 1963: Kimiyo Matsuzaki & Masako Seki (JPN)
- 1965: Lin Huiqing & Zheng Minzhi (CHN)
- 1967: Saeko Hirota & Sachiko Morisawa (JPN)
- 1969: Svetlana Grinberg & Zoja Rudnova (URS)
- 1971: Lin Huiqing & Zheng Minzhi (CHN)
- 1973: Maria Alexandru (ROU) & Miho Hamada (JPN)
- 1975: Maria Alexandru (ROU) & Shoko Takahashi (JPN)
- 1977: Pak Yong-ok (PRK) & Yang Ying (born 1953) (CHN)
- 1979: Zhang Deying & Zhang Li (CHN)
- 1981: Cao Yanhua & Zhang Deying (CHN)
- 1983: Dai Lili & Shen Jianping (CHN)
- 1985: Dai Lili & Geng Lijuan (CHN)
- 1987: Hyun Jung-hwa & Yang Young-ja (KOR)
- 1989: Deng Yaping & Qiao Hong (CHN)
- 1991: Chen Zihe & Gao Jun (CHN)
- 1993: Liu Wei & Qiao Yunping (CHN)
- 1995: Deng Yaping & Qiao Hong (CHN)
- 1997: Deng Yaping & Yang Ying (born 1977) (CHN)
- 1999: Li Ju & Wang Nan (CHN)
- 2001: Li Ju & Wang Nan (CHN)
- 2003: Wang Nan & Zhang Yining (CHN)
- 2005: Wang Nan & Zhang Yining (CHN)
- 2007: Wang Nan & Zhang Yining (CHN)
- 2009: Guo Yue & Li Xiaoxia (CHN)
- 2011: Guo Yue & Li Xiaoxia (CHN)
- 2013: Guo Yue & Li Xiaoxia (CHN)
- 2015: Liu Shiwen & Zhu Yuling (CHN)
- 2017: Ding Ning & Liu Shiwen (CHN)
- 2019: Sun Yingsha & Wang Manyu (CHN)
- 2021: Sun Yingsha & Wang Manyu (CHN)
- 2023: Chen Meng & Wang Yidi (CHN)