Ni Xialian

She won team and mixed doubles gold medals in the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships.

She moved to Germany in 1989 and settled down in Luxembourg two years later. Her husband, Tommy Danielsson, is her coach and training partner.

She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition.

She qualified for competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's singles competition. She lost 4-2 to 16-year-old Ariel Hsing from the USA in the 2nd round in the London games.

She competed for Luxembourg at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's singles competition. She lost 4-2 to Feng Tianwei of Singapore in the 3rd round.[2] She was the flag bearer for Luxembourg during the closing ceremony.[3]

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Xialian will become the oldest Olympian table tennis player.[4]

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

• NI Xia Lian at the International Table Tennis Federation
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  • "NI Xia Lian at ittfranking.com". Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2018.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Xia Lian NI at the International Olympic Committee
• Xia Lian Ni at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)