Qi Baoxiang is a female former international

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 from

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Table tennis career

From 1981 to 1985 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

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and four medals in the

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. The four World Championship medals included a

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in the Corbillon Cup (team event) at the

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for China.

Personal life

She is the sister of

Chai Po Wa Chai Po Wa (, born 12 April 1966) or Qi Baohua is a table tennis player from Hong Kong. From 1989 to 1997 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Champions ...

(pronounced Qi Baohua in Mandarin), also a table tennis player.

References

Chinese female table tennis players Living people Table tennis players from Baoding 1961 births {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

Personal life

See also

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