Deng Yaping was born onFebruary 6, 1973inZhengzhou, the capital city ofCentralChina'sHenanProvince. Starting to play table tennis at an early age, Deng is by far the best table tennis player in history and dominated almost all women's events during her career.
She is the first woman to win the championship in all international-level women's table tennis contests, including the World Cup, the World Championship and the Olympic Games.
In 1989, she teamed with Qiao Hong to claim the women's double title in the World Championships. The following year, Deng and her teammates won the women's team title in the first World Cup of Table Tennis in May and was voted the best player of the event. Five months later, she got two gold medals in the Asian Games held inBeijing.
In the 1991 World Championships, she got the women's single and double title. In the 1992 Olympic Games, she won the gold medals for women's single and double. Three years later, she was champion of women's single, double and team in the World Championships. In 1996, she was gold medallist in women's single and double. The following year, she won the first place in women's single, double and team in the world championships.
After this event, Deng gradually quit her table tennis career and went to a British university to study English.
In 2000, Deng was voted into the IOC's Athletic Committee and made great contributions forBeijing's successful bidding of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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