1983, Deng Yaping left home and went to Zhengzhou table tennis team to learn to play.
At the beginning of 1986, Deng Yaping was seconded to the Henan team. 1986 In April, the National Table Tennis Association Cup was held in Huaihua, Hunan. Deng Yaping cooperated with his teammates in this competition and won the team championship for Henan Province. At the end of the same year, Deng Yaping won the team and individual championships in Zhengzhou on behalf of Henan team.
1988, 15-year-old Deng Yaping won the national youth table tennis women's singles championship again.
1988165438+1October, Deng Yaping officially entered the China table tennis team. In the same year, in the Asian Cup, Deng Yaping defeated Li Huifen, a silver medalist in women's singles at the Seoul Olympic Games, and won the women's singles championship.
1989, Deng Yaping won the women's doubles championship for the first time in the 40th World Table Tennis Championships, becoming one of the youngest world champions in table tennis history.
1 On May 23rd, 990, Deng Yaping partnered with Qiao Hong, Jun Gao and Chen to win the women's team championship at the1Table Tennis World Cup.
1991May 6th, in the women's singles final of the 4 1 World Table Tennis Championships, Deng Yaping, who was only 18 years old, eliminated Li, the runner-up of the Seoul Olympic Games, with a record of 3-0 in just 45 minutes, and won the women's singles championship in one fell swoop. In September of the same year, Deng Yaping won the championship again in the "Samaranch Cup" international table tennis championship held in Matsumoto Prefecture, Japan.
1992, Deng Yaping participated in the Barcelona Olympic Games as the absolute main force of the China team, and finally won two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles at the Barcelona Olympic Games.
1993, World Table Tennis Championships in Sweden. Deng Yaping cooperated with Qiao Hong, Chen and Jun Gao to win the women's team championship in the World Table Tennis Championships.
1995, Deng Yaping won the women's singles, women's doubles and women's team championships in the World Table Tennis Championships.
1996, Deng Yaping won two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles again at the Atlanta Olympic Games. During this period, Deng Yaping ranked first in the world women's table tennis for eight consecutive years. From the end of 1980s to the end of 1990s, Deng Yaping won almost all singles and doubles titles in major competitions. The media called this period the "Deng Yaping era" of table tennis.
1In May 1997, after winning the women's table tennis team, women's doubles and women's singles at the Manchester World Table Tennis Championships, Deng Yaping officially faded out of the national team and went to Tsinghua University and Cambridge University to study English.
1998 In the second half of the year, Deng Yaping returned from England to prepare for the Asian Games in Bangkok. Deng Yaping officially retired in September because the national team has been supported by newcomers.