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.jpg) Zheng Minzhi, 1965. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1945 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zheng Minzhi also known asCheng Min-chih is a former internationaltable tennis player fromChina.[1]
Between 1965 and 1973 she won six medals in singles, doubles, and team events in theWorld 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 partnerLin Huiqing won thegold medal at the1965 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 theCultural Revolution, and while training was banned, Zheng practised on her own in secret.[5]
She and Lin returned to the1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Japan, again winning the women's doubles[6][7] and gaining asilver medal in the singles.[8]
Following her successes at the World Table Tennis Championships, Zheng participated inping-pong diplomacy, visiting the United States in 1972. One year later she won her sixth and final medal at the1973 World Table Tennis Championships, a silver medal in the Corbillon Cup (team event).[9]
She met her husband, a specialist inshogi, at a Shanghai sports school. They have a son.[5]
