Lei Lina OAM (Chinese: 雷丽娜, born 19 February 1988[5][6]) is a Chinese and Australian table tennis player who has a leg length difference of 6 cm.[1] Lei has won ten medals in five Paralympic Games, including six gold and four silver medals.[7] Representing Australia, she won two gold meda, a silver and bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Table tennis

She began playing at age 7. She attended Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.[3] Lei moved to Melbourne,[2] Australia in 2017 or later.[4] She also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing her only singles match 0–4 to South Korea's Shin Yu-bin.[8]

In 2020, Lei represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics where she won the gold medal in the Women's individual – Class 9 and the silver medal in the Women's Team Class 9–10.[9][10]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won the silver medal in the Women's singles C6–10.[11]

At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Singles 9 and the gold medal in the Women's Doubles 20 with Yang Qian.

Recognition

  • 2020 - 2022 - Member of the Australian Table Table Tennis Team (Class 9–10) that was awarded 2020 Paralympics Australia Team of the Year [12]
  • 2022 – Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 [13]

References

  1. ^ a b "2012中国大学生年度人物候选人雷丽娜事迹". People's Daily (in Chinese). 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Lei Li Na - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Lei Lina". IPC.infostradasports.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ a b "Lei Li Na - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Lei Lina - Rio 2016 Paralympic Games". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Athens 2004 Paralympic Games - Table Tennis - Official Results Book". ipc-services.org. International Paralympic Committee. 19 September 2004.
  7. ^ "Lina Lei". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Lei Lina". ITTF. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Para-Table Tennis Squad's Tokyo Build-Up A 'Brilliant Example Of Teamwork' | Paralympics Australia". Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Tokyo 2020 - table-tennis - women-s-singles-class-9". Tokyo Paralympics Official Results. 4 September 2021.
  11. ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  12. ^ "De Rozario And Tudhope Earn Top Honours at Paralympics Australia Awards". Paralympics Australia. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  13. ^ "Australia Day 2022 Honours List" (PDF). Governor-General of Australia. Retrieved 26 January 2022.


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