Ma Lin (, born December 25, 1989) is a Chinese-Australian

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 who has only a left arm. Ma has won five Paralympic medals, four gold, in four Summer Paralympic Games, five world titles and eleven Asian titles in his sport. He was named the 2013 Male Para-Table Tennis Star during the ITTF Star Awards in January 2014. Ma lost his right arm at age 5, after he went to the zoo with other children and stuck his arm in a cage to feed a bear. He sustained a knee injury in the 2014

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Move to Australia

Ma moved to

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, Australia in 2017. He also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing his only match 0–4 to Thailand's Supanut Wisutmaythangkoon. He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in Men's Singles C9-10 and Men's Team C9-10 with Nathan Pellissier and Joel Coughlan. At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal in the Men's singles C8–10.

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