Zhang Xiaoling

Zhang Xiaoling is a retired Chinese para table tennis player, born on 20 July 1957, who won twelve Paralympic medals between 1988 and 2008. As a sent-down youth during the Cultural Revolution she badly sprained her right foot in 1973, and the foot was later amputated because treatment came too late. She won a gold medal at a national women's singles competition in 1987 and then represented China at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, winning gold in the open event. She competed at every Summer Paralympics after that, taking at least two medals at each, one in singles and one in the team event, plus open-event medals in 1992 and 1996.