Zhou Yihan (; born 30 January 1994) is a Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. Born in China, she moved to Singapore in 2009 via the

Foreign Sports Talent Scheme The Foreign Sports Talent Scheme (FST), initially known as Project Rainbow, was a scheme used by sports officials and organisations in Singapore to scout and facilitate the migration of non-Singaporeans deemed to possess sports talent to play in S ...

. She was eligible to play in 2011. Zhou won a team gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a team Bronze at the 2014 Asian Games. On 2 June 2015, Zhou and her compatriot, Lin Ye, defeated top seed,

Feng Tianwei Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competi ...

and

Yu Mengyu Yu Mengyu (; born 18 August 1989) is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Liaoning, China, Yu left China in 2006 at the age of 17 to join the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA). She was part of the team that ...

4–3 to clinch the Women Doubles title in

28th Southeast Asian Games The 2015 Southeast Asian Games ( ms, Sukan Asia Tenggara 2015; ; ta, 2015 தென்கிழக்கு ஆசிய விளையாட்டுப் போட்டிகள்), officially known as the 28th Southeast Asian Games, or ...

held in Singapore. The pair continued their good momentum and caused one of the biggest upset in history when they defeated the top doubles pair

Ding Ning Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships. At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Ding won her second world title in ...

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Liu Shiwen Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...

3–0 in ITTF World Tour, Japan Open Semi-Final but lost to another China pair of Wu Yang and Liu Fei in Final.

2016 Summer Olympics

Zhou was selected and debuted as the third player for the women's team by the Singapore Table Tennis Association for the Olympics. The Singapore women's team, comprising Zhou,

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, reached the semi-final of the team event but lost to China 0–3. In the bronze medal match, the trio was defeated by Japan 1–3.Singapore table tennis players failed to retain team bronze after loss to Japan
; Team Event

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhou, Yihan Living people 1994 births Table tennis players from Shenyang Chinese emigrants to Singapore Naturalised citizens of Singapore Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent Naturalised table tennis players Chinese female table tennis players Singaporean female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in table tennis Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Singapore Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic table tennis players for Singapore Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Table tennis players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games SEA Games medalists in table tennis SEA Games gold medalists for Singapore SEA Games silver medalists for Singapore SEA Games bronze medalists for Singapore Competitors at the 2013 SEA Games Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games