Cao Yanhua: Two-Time World Championships Women's Singles Champion · Winning the Final with Lobs
Women's singles champion at the 1983 and 1985 World Championships, and a central figure in Chinese women's table tennis in the 1980s.
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Women's singles champion at the 1983 and 1985 World Championships, and a central figure in Chinese women's table tennis in the 1980s.
Women's singles champion at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, the third player after Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining to defend Olympic women's singles gold.
Multiple World Championships women's team champion with China, a member of the women's team title at the 2026 London World Championships, and a long-time top-ranked women's singles player.
Winner of four Olympic gold medals who spent eight consecutive years as world No. 1 in women's singles, one of the most recognizable symbols of Chinese table tennis.
Women's singles champion at the Rio 2016 Olympics and the 2011 World Championships, completing a Grand Slam, and best known for her squat chop serve.
She scored two points in the women's team final of the 33rd World Championships in 1977 to help China reclaim the Corbillon Cup after ten years; women's singles champion at the 35th World Championships in 1979.
A World Cup women's singles champion and multiple World Championships women's team champion with China, an important member of Chinese women's table tennis at the turn of the century.
Women's singles champion at the 2007 Zagreb World Championships and a member of the women's team champions at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, famous from a young age.
2025 World Championships women's doubles champion, year-end World No. 1 in both mixed doubles and women's doubles, a core member of the new generation of Chinese women's table tennis.
2000 Sydney Olympic women's doubles champion who, together with Wang Nan, formed the most stable Chinese women's doubles pairing of the late 1990s.
2012 London Olympic women's singles champion and 2013 Paris World Championships women's singles champion, a career Grand Slam winner.
Won the Women's World Cup singles title five times, more than any other player, and took the 2019 Budapest World Championships women's singles crown.
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