Zhang Nan, born on 1 March 1990, is a Chinese former professional badminton player who specialized in men's and mixed doubles. With Zhao Yunlei he won the mixed doubles gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics, three BWF World Championships golds in 2011, 2014 and 2015 and the 2014 Asian Games gold, and the pair are considered one of the most successful mixed doubles pairs of all time. At the 2016 Olympics he won the men's doubles gold with Fu Haifeng, and he also took mixed doubles bronze with Zhao. After Fu retired he partnered Liu Cheng and became men's doubles World Champion at the 2017 World Championships. He resigned from the Chinese national team in August 2022.
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is a Chinese former professional badminton player
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Zhang Nan himself is considered to be one of the all-time greats of badminton.
Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, Career, 2012 Olympics
In July-August at the London Olympics, he won the gold medal at the mixed doubles event with Zhao Yunlei
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