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Geng Lijuan
Nationality	China  Canada
Born	(1963-01-15) 15 January 1963 (age 61) Hebei Province, China
Height	5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Weight	123 lb (56 kg)
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  China World Championships 1983 Tokyo Team 1985 Gothenburg Doubles 1985 Gothenburg Team 1987 New Delhi Mixed 1983 Tokyo Doubles 1985 Gothenburg Singles Representing  Canada Pan American Games 1995 Mar del Plata Singles 1995 Mar del Plata Doubles 1995 Mar del Plata Mixed Doubles 1995 Mar del Plata Team 1999 Winnipeg Singles 1999 Winnipeg Team

Geng Lijuan (Chinese: 耿丽娟; born January 15, 1963) is a Chinese-Canadian table tennis player. She is a four-time World Champion, former World #1 and member of the Chinese National Team.

Geng retired from the Chinese national team before the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and married her mixed doubles partner in the world championships, a Romanian table tennis player who had emigrated to Canada. She moved to Canada in 1989, then played professionally in a German club for four years.

She returned to Ottawa in 1994, bought a pizza shop with her husband, and expanded it to three shops. She plays table tennis in her spare time and represented Canada internationally in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. Her career includes winning numerous international Open tournaments such as the French Open, US Open, Italian Open, and German Open. She was a multi-gold medallist at the Pan American Games and many times Canadian and North American Champion.

After she stopped competing, she established the Geng Table Tennis Academy. Jimmy Pintea, Sonia Qin, Andrea Liu, Ly Quan Li, and Shannon Zheng have worked with Geng at the academy. In 2010 Lijuan was the coach of the National Team players at the National Training Center in Ottawa.

References

1. "GENG Lijuan (CAN)". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
2. ^ "耿丽娟：22年的加国乒乓梦 不屈不挠". Wuyou Canada (in Chinese). 17 December 2011. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2015.

External links

• GENG Lijuan at World Table Tennis
• Lijuan Geng at Olympics.com
• Lijuan Geng at Team Canada
• Lijuan Geng at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Geng Lijuan Website gengtabletennis.com

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