【仁爱英语 七年级上册】拓展材料：邓亚萍简介（中英文）.pdf

读万卷书 行万里路 1 拓展材料：邓亚萍简介（中英文） Deng Yaping was born on the 5th of February, 1973 in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, and she is a Chinese table tennis player, who won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Deng began playing table tennis at age five, and four years later she won her provincial junior championship. She was age 13 when she won her first national championship. Despite her success, she was initially denied a spot on the national team because she was so short (she stood only 1.5 metres 4 feet 11 读万卷书 行万里路 2 inches tall). Her talent, however, could not be denied, and she was finally included on the national team in 1988. She teamed with Qiao Hong to win her first world championship title in the womens doubles competition in 1989. Two years later in 1991, Deng won her first singles world championship. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she won a gold medal in both the singles and doubles competitions and repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She also earned singles and doubles titles at the 1995 and 1997 world championships. When she retired at the age of 24, she had won more titles than any other player in the sport, including four Olympic gold medals, and had been 18 times world champion in table tennis. From 1990 to 1997, she retained the title of world No. 1 ranked female table tennis player for 8 years. She was voted Chinese female athlete of the century, and joined the International Table Tennis Federation Hall of Fame in 2003. 邓亚萍， 1973 年 2 月 6 日生于河南郑州， 曾就读于清华大学， 诺丁汉大学， 剑桥大学等国际知名高等学府。

邓亚萍是夺取世界乒乓球冠军次数第三多的女选手， 13 岁时夺得全国冠军， 15岁时获亚洲冠军， 16岁时在世界锦标赛上获得女子团体和女子双打双料冠军， 19 岁时在巴塞罗那奥运会上又夺得女子单打冠军和女子双打冠军， 20 岁时在第 读万卷书 行万里路 3 四十二届世乒赛上又夺得团体、双打两块金牌 邓亚萍共获得 18 个世界冠军、连续 2 届 4 次奥运会冠军是世界上第一个 蝉联奥运会乒乓球金牌的运动员，曾获得 4 枚奥运金牌，所以被大家叫做 “乒乓皇后” 。