Cheng I-ching (; born 15 February 1992) is a Taiwanese
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player. She competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in the
women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by
Li Xiaoxia
Li Xiaoxia (; born 16 January 1988) is a Chinese table tennis Grand Slam champion.
Career
She trained in the Jiangsu Wuxi Shanhe Club in Wuxi, China. Her trainer is Li Sun, who is also the mentor of Olympic gold medal winner Zhang Yining. As o ...
, and as part of the Chinese Taipei team in the
women's team event. Cheng helped Chinese Taipei woman's team win bronze at the
World Team Championships and became the first Taiwanese-born medalist at the
Woman's World Cup in 2016.
Cheng represented Taiwan in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the
mixed doubles
Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...
event alongside
Lin Yun-ju
Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. , in which they won the bronze medal. She is currently also a master's degree student in the Department of Physical Education of
Fu Jen Catholic University
Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...
.
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1992 births
Living people
Fu Jen Catholic University alumni
Taiwanese female table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for Taiwan
Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Universiade silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
Expatriate table tennis people in Japan
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in table tennis
Olympic bronze medalists for Taiwan
Sportspeople from Tainan
21st-century Taiwanese women
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