Geng Lijuan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Geng Lijuan

Chinese table tennis player

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1963

Place of Birth: Hebei, China

Profession: table tennis player

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Geng Lijuan

  • Geng Lijuan (Chinese: ???; born January 15, 1963) is a Chinese-Canadian table tennis player.
  • She is a four-time World Champion, former World #1 and member of the Chinese National Team. Geng retired from the Chinese national team before the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and married her mixed doubles partner in the world championships, a Romanian table tennis player who had emigrated to Canada.
  • She moved to Canada in 1989, then played professionally in a German club for four years.She returned to Ottawa in 1994, bought a pizza shop with her husband, and expanded it to three shops.
  • She played table tennis in her spare time, and represented Canada internationally including in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.
  • Her career includes winning numerous international Open tournaments such as the French Open, US Open, Italian Open, and German Open.
  • She was a multi-gold medallist at the Pan American Games and many times Canadian and North American Champion.After she stopped competing, she established the Geng Table Tennis Academy.
  • Jimmy Pintea, Sonia Qin, Andrea Liu, Ly Quan Li, and Shannon Zheng have worked with Geng at the academy.
  • In 2010 Lijuan was the coach of the National Team players at the National Training Center in Ottawa.

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