Lang Ping, known as Jenny and nicknamed the Iron Hammer, was born on 10 December 1960 in Tianjin and is a Chinese former volleyball player and coach. As an outside hitter she was a member of the Chinese national team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where she was named most valuable player, and she captained the 1985 World Cup team. She was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2002. As a coach she led the United States women's team to Olympic silver in 2008 and the Chinese women's team to gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the first person to win Olympic gold both as a player and as a coach.
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She is the former head coach of the Chinese women
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Lang was a member of the Chinese national team that won the gold medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
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