In Wang Nan's career, he has won a total of 24 world championships, including the World Cup, the World Championships, the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, the Asian Championships and a series of other events. At the end of 1998, after officially surpassing Deng Yaping in the world rankings to become the new world first sister, Wang Nan ushered in her own era of ping-pong rule.
For the world table tennis world, Wang Nan is an eternal legend. She is not only the youngest athlete in the world, both men and women, to win a table tennis grand slam. He is also the athlete who has won the largest number of world championships, and has won the world table tennis world with 24 championship trophies.
Wang Nan was born on October 23, 1978 in Fushun, Liaoning Province. He began playing at the age of 7, entered Liaoning Fushun Sports School at the age of 11, entered the Liaoning Provincial Team at the age of 14, and was selected for the national team at the age of 15.
A year after being selected for the national team, Wang Nan won the 1994 Swedish Open women's singles championship with a left-handed cross-shot, and the Women's Singles championship of the China Open in 1995. In 1997, Wang Nan, who was only 19 years old, opened his own way to dominate the world table tennis world.
In 1997, she won the 2nd World Cup Women's Singles Championship and the 44th World Table Tennis Championships Women's Team Champion;
In 1998, she won the 3rd World Cup Women's Singles Championship;
In 1999, she won the women's singles and women's doubles championships of the 45th World Table Tennis Championships (partnered with Li Ju);
In 2000, she won the women's singles and women's doubles championships at the Sydney Olympic Games, and the women's team champion at the 45th World Table Tennis Championships;
In 2001, she won the women's singles, women's doubles and women's team championships at the 46th World Table Tennis Championships;
In 2003, she won the 6th World Cup Women's Singles Championship and the 47th World Championships Women's Singles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles Championships;
In 2004, she won the women's doubles championship at the Athens Olympic Games (partnered with Zhang Yining) and the 47th World Table Tennis Championships women's team champion;
In 2005, she won the women's doubles championship of the 48th World Table Tennis Championships (with Zhang Yining);
In 2006, she won the women's team championship of the 48th World Table Tennis Championships;
In 2007, she won the 11th World Cup Women's Singles Championship and the 5th Team World Cup Women's Team Championship;
In 2008, she won the Beijing Olympic Women's Team Championship and the 49th World Table Tennis Championships Women's Team Champion;
The above is the number of championships won by Wang Nan in the three world competitions, excluding the various championships of the year-end finals, open competitions, continental competitions and international invitational tournaments.
In 2000, Wang Nan won the table tennis Grand Slam, the second Chinese women's table tennis player after Deng Yaping, and the youngest athlete to win a Grand Slam so far. From 2000 to 2008, the world women's table tennis opened the era of Wang Nan.
During this period, Wang Nan was the spiritual leader of Chinese women's table tennis and the dinghai god needle of Chinese women's table tennis in the world arena. As long as Wang Nan is there, her strong domineering spirit will cover the scene of the game, and the Chinese women's table tennis players on the field will have confidence, courage and hard work.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Wang Nan chose to retire. After retiring from the army, Wang Nan entered the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and later resigned from his position at the department level because he could not put down table tennis, and founded the "National Ball House" with her husband, aiming to promote the development of table tennis.
From Wang Nan's achievements in his career, his election as a representative of two party congresses, his becoming a member of the presidium of the party congress, and his entry into the high-level work of the central committee of the league, he is the player with the highest honor and treatment in the history of women's table tennis. Therefore, Wang Nan is a veritable "big sister" of female table tennis.