Geng Lijuan (; born January 15, 1963) is a

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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

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, 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

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in 1994, bought a pizza shop with her husband, and expanded it to three shops. She plays table tennis in her spare time and represented Canada internationally 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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* * * * * Geng Lijuan Website gengtabletennis.com 1963 births Living people Canadian female table tennis players Chinese female table tennis players Olympic table tennis players of Canada Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in table tennis Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Table tennis players at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Table tennis players from Hebei Chinese emigrants to Canada People from Lulong County Naturalised table tennis players Table tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 1999 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games {{Canada-tabletennis-bio-stub