On December 25, 2021, Ding Ning, a national table tennis grand slam star, sent good news - only 3 months after retiring from her military and entering Peking University for graduate school, she was selected as the "Peking University Student of the Year", which is really gratifying!
Although it has faded out of the table tennis arena, Ding Ning is still ranked 6th in the world, it can be said that "Yu Wei" is still there, and now after studying for graduate school, it has also been recognized by top universities, and it is expected to achieve more high-light achievements in new fields in the future, which is worth looking forward to!
Ding Ning, born in 1990, is a table tennis player who is very familiar to everyone, she has risen in the London Olympic cycle, and the Rio Olympic cycle has gone further, becoming the fifth women's table tennis Grand Slam winner after Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining and Li Xiaoxia.
During the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Ding Ning also won a number of world championships, but unfortunately, because of the impact of Ito Mimachi and others, he did not have the opportunity to step into the Olympic arena again, and announced his retirement shortly after the end of the Olympic Games, and even the National Games did not finish (participated in the preliminary round) and ended his career and went to Peking University to study for graduate school.
After arriving at Peking University, Ding Ning, while actively learning new knowledge, continued to use her influence to promote the development of table tennis, won many different positions, and was widely praised by teachers and students, and it is precisely because of this that she was able to stand out in the latest "Peking University Student of the Year" selection and successfully elected.
For Ding Ning's past achievements, Peking University gave high praise to it, praising:
Representing the Chinese team for 18 years, Ding Ning has won a total of 21 world championships, 7 singles titles in the world's three major competitions, and has ranked first in the world for 53 months, is the first and currently the only Olympic standard-bearer in the history of national table tennis, and has won many national honors such as China's top ten figures after 90.
Prior to this, many athletes in the national table tennis team continued their studies after retirement, such as world champion Liu Wei is Ding Ning's predecessor at Peking University, and Grand Slam Deng Yaping has gone overseas to study, which is impressive.
Ding Ning once won the gold medal with her teammates in the World Series and won glory for the country, and now although she has retired, she still does not forget to contribute her strength to the cause of national football, which is indeed worthy of everyone's affirmation! I hope that if she has the opportunity, she will continue to contribute to the development of the Chinese team, teach her own competition experience to Sun Yingsha and other juniors, and help the results of national table tennis get better and better: come on!