Ding Ning

Ding Ning is one of those athletes who makes you forget you're watching a sport and feel like you're watching art — she's that good. A three-time World Table Tennis Championships singles winner (2011, 2015 and 2017) and the 2016 Rio Olympic champion in women's singles, she stood at the absolute top of the most competitive table tennis nation on earth for the better part of a decade, which is just a staggering achievement when you think about it. What I love about her game is the sheer intelligence behind every rally — she reads opponents like a book, then dismantles them methodically. Getting into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 2016 while still active said everything about her legacy. Ding Ning isn't just a champion; she's the benchmark everyone else in women's table tennis measured themselves against.

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Name (English)

Ding Ning

Name (Japanese)

丁寧

Reading

でぃん・にん

Born

June 20, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Daqing, People's Republic of China

Height

171 cm

Occupation

table tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 2016 ITTF Hall of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding%20Ning
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%81%E5%AF%A7%20(%E5%8D%93%E7%90%83%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242496

Tags

• table tennis player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.