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Gao Jun
Chinese-American table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gao Jun (Chinese: 高军; pinyin: Gāo jūn; born January 25, 1969) is a Chinese American table tennis player.[1][2]
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Biography
Gao Jun was born in Baoding, Hebei province, China. She now resides in Southern California and is the owner of the California Table Tennis club in Rosemead, CA.
She won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the women's double event, with Chen Zihe for[3] the Chinese National Team. She moved to the U.S. in 1994 and became a U.S. citizen.[4] Gao competed for the United States in three consecutive Olympic Games from 2000 to 2008. In 2009, she was inducted into the USATT Hall of Fame.
Gao is a nine-time U.S. women's champion and has won eleven U.S. national titles in women's doubles and eight titles in mixed doubles with various partners. She was ranked number 1 in the U.S. prior to the 2012 London Olympics but withdrew from the North American Olympic trials due to an injury.[5]
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