121. Yaping Deng 鄧亞萍
Yaping Deng, a world champion in table-tennis, is a woman of 30 from Henan Province. At the age of 4, she learnt to play table-tennis under her father's instruction. When she was only 8 years old, she won the championship in the national competition of the amateur sports schools.
乒乓球世界冠軍鄧亞萍是一位來(lái)自湖南的30歲的姑娘,四歲起就在父親的指導(dǎo)下開(kāi)始學(xué)打乒乓球,年近八歲的她就榮獲業(yè)余體校全國(guó)競(jìng)賽的冠軍。
She entered the national Training Team in 1988. Since she was only 1.5 meters tall, she made great efforts to improve her foot-work. Her hard work proved that height didn't count for much.
1988年她進(jìn)入國(guó)家集訓(xùn)隊(duì),由于她個(gè)子矮小,僅1.5米高,她刻苦訓(xùn)練,改進(jìn)腳底下的功夫。
She won gold medals one after another, the gold medals in the 11th Asian Games Table Tennis Competition, the 41st World Table Tennis championships and the 25th Olympic Games.
她的努力證明,個(gè)子的高矮并不能說(shuō)明一切。鄧亞萍先后獲得第11屆亞乒賽冠軍、第41屆世乒賽、第25屆奧運(yùn)會(huì)的冠軍。