Ma Lin (Paralympian)
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Residence | Melbourne, Australia (since 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mudanjiang,[1] Heilongjiang, China | 25 December 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing style | Left-handed shakehand grip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 1 (April 2007)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 6 (February 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Traditional Chinese | 馬麟 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 马麟 | ||||||
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Ma Lin (Chinese: 马麟, born December 25, 1989) is a Chinese-Australian table tennis player who has only a left arm. Ma has won five Paralympic medals, four gold, in four Summer Paralympic Games, five world titles and eleven Asian titles in his sport.[1] He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and has been selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Biography
[edit]Ma lost his right arm at age 5, after he went to the zoo with other children and stuck his arm in a cage to feed a bear.[2][4] He sustained a knee injury in the 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing.[5] Ma moved to Melbourne,[1] Australia in 2017.[3]
Table Tennis
[edit]He was named the 2013 Male Para-Table Tennis Star during the ITTF Star Awards in January 2014.[6]
He also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing his only match 0–4 to Thailand's Supanut Wisutmaythangkoon.[7]
He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in Men's Singles C9-10 and Men's Team C9-10 with Nathan Pellissier and Joel Coughlan.[8][9]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal in the Men's singles C8–10.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Ma Lin - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Ma Lin". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Ma Lin - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ Lin Benjian; Zhao Baotong (17 September 2008). "马麟向马琳看齐". Yangcheng Evening News (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Ma Lin targets table tennis trifecta". International Paralympic Committee. 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Paralympians honoured at ITTF's Star Awards". International Paralympic Committee. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Ma Lin". ITTF. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Para-Table Tennis Squad's Tokyo Build-Up A 'Brilliant Example Of Teamwork'". Paralympics Australia. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "Ma Lin". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
External links
[edit]Media related to Ma Lin (Paralympian) at Wikimedia Commons
- Ma Lin at ITTF Para Table Tennis
- Ma Lin at the International Paralympic Committee (2008–2016)
- Ma Lin at the International Paralympic Committee (2020)
- Ma Lin at Paralympics Australia
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Paralympic table tennis players for China
- Paralympic table tennis players for Australia
- Chinese male table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- People from Mudanjiang
- Paralympic gold medalists for China
- Paralympic silver medalists for China
- Table tennis players from Heilongjiang
- Chinese amputees
- Chinese emigrants to Australia
- FESPIC Games competitors
- Naturalised citizens of Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Para Games