Career
She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1988 (when the sport first appeared at the Games) to 2004. She is the first female table tennis player to compete at five Olympics. Six men share this honor with her: Swede Jörgen Persson, Croatian Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, Swede January-Ove Waldner, and German Jörg Roßkopf.