Pan Li-chun (; born 26 February 1982 in
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung City (Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsi ...
) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. As of July 2012, Pan is ranked no. 168 in the world by the
International Table Tennis Federation
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(ITTF).
Pan is a member of the table tennis team for Taiwan Cooperative Bank, and is coached and trained by Hsu Long-Chien.
Pan is also right-handed, and uses the shakehand grip.
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Pan represented the ]Chinese Taipei
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Due to the One-China principle stipulated by th ...
at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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in Beijing
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, where she competed in the women's singles. She defeated Egypt's Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz in the unseeded preliminary round, before losing out the first round match to Turkey's Melek Hu
Melek Hu, born Hou Meiling () 27 January 1989, Shenyang) is a Chinese-born Turkish table tennis player. She has played for Fenerbahçe TT since 2007 and also played for An Gang in China. She has won European championships in the mixed (2010) ...
, with a set score of 1–4.
References
External links
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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1982 births
Living people
Taiwanese female table tennis players
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic table tennis players for Taiwan
Sportspeople from Kaohsiung
Table tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
21st-century Taiwanese women
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