Ni_Xialian
Ni Xialian
Luxembourgian table tennis player
Ni Xia Lian (Chinese: 倪夏莲; born 4 July 1963) is a Chinese-born table tennis player who represents Luxembourg since 1991. She was born in Shanghai, and resides in Ettelbruck.
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Nationality | Luxembourgish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1963-07-04) 4 July 1963 (age 60) Shanghai, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Left-handed, penhold | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 6 (25 May 1985)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 46 (Feb 2024) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ni won team and mixed doubles gold medals for China in the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships.[3][4][5] She moved to Germany in 1989 and settled in Luxembourg two years later. Her husband, Tommy Danielsson, is her coach and training partner. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She qualified for competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's singles competition. She lost 4–2 to 16-year-old Ariel Hsing from the US in the 2nd round in the London games.
She competed for Luxembourg at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's singles competition. She lost 4–2 to Feng Tianwei of Singapore in the 3rd round.[6] She was the flag bearer for Luxembourg during the closing ceremony.[7]
When she qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics at the age of 58, Ni became the oldest Olympian table tennis player.[8]
In 2021, Ni, 58 years old, won the women's doubles bronze medal for Luxembourg (LUX) in 2021 World Table Tennis Championships alongside Sarah de Nutte.[9] At the age of 60, Ni was ranked the 46th worldwide.[2]
- André Damman. "History of World Rankings" (PDF). ittf.com. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- "Guo Yuehua/Ni Xia Lian - Chen Xinhua/Tong Ling 1983". Youtube. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony". 21 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- Ni Xia Lian at World Table Tennis
- Ni Xia Lian at Olympedia
- Ni Xia Lian at Olympics.com
- Ni Xia Lian at the Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois (in French)
- Ni Xia Lian on Instagram
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