Gui Lin (, born 1 October 1993 in

Nanning Nanning (; ; za, Namzningz) is the capital and largest city by population of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. It is known as the "Green City" because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South o ...

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) is a

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player from

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. She was naturalized as a Brazilian in 2012 and was selected to be part of the Brazilian National Team competing in

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. She was awarded 2 silver medals in her sport during the

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. She currently trains under the supervision of Pan-American Medalist

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. She also holds Chinese nationality.

Personal life

Lin has been living in Brazil since the age of 12 as an exchange student and naturalized Brazilian at the age of 18. She speaks fluent Portuguese and identifies with Brazilian culture, claiming to be "Brazilian at heart from birth". She currently lives in

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where she trains with

, who, like her, identifies with soccer team

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. She held a relationship with soccer player Chen Zhizhao.

Criticism

She has been the target of criticism for being selected over Jessica Yamada to be the third player on the Brazilian Team for the 2012 Olympic Games despite being lower-ranked at the time. The Brazilian Team coach argued that his choice for Lin was technical, stating that Lin was currently the best Brazilian player overall and was lower-ranked due to injuries in the previous season, which made her unable to play and consequently dropping positions on the ranking.

References

Living people 1993 births People from Nanning Brazilian female table tennis players Chinese emigrants to Brazil Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Naturalized citizens of Brazil Olympic table tennis players for Brazil Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players from Guangxi Naturalised table tennis players South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games silver medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games {{Brazil-tabletennis-bio-stub Brazilian people of Chinese descent