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 {{Taiwan-sport-bio-stub