Deng Yaping is a retired Chinese table tennis player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and 1990s. Despite early rejection from the national team over her short stature, she became world champion multiple times and won Olympic gold in both singles and doubles at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games, holding the world number one ranking for eight consecutive years before retiring at age 24. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Career HighlightWon 18 world table tennis championships and four Olympic gold medals between 1989 and 1997, holding the world number one ranking for eight consecutive years. 1 Classification
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She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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Deng Yaping is a retired Chinese table tennis player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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