As we all know, due to the large number of talents in China's table tennis, many athletes are suffering from no development opportunities and choose to change their nationality to represent other countries, and many of them have indeed realized their dreams. But among the many foreign table tennis players, there is such a special person, she decided to go abroad to play more like an "escape". She is the famous Singaporean Chinese athlete Li Jiawei.
Li Jiawei is strong, and once defeated wang Nan, a famous mainland table tennis player, in the quarterfinals of the table tennis women's singles at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. She appeared as a Chinese face, representing the Singapore team. The emergence of Li Jiawei made the Chinese table tennis team feel the crisis, and Li Jiawei also became the leader of the Singapore team, changing the development history of Singapore table tennis.
Born in 1981, Li Jiawei was influenced by her father and was exposed to table tennis at a very young age. Li Jiawei's father, Li Wanxiang, is a coach who founded a table tennis school, and Li Jiawei came out of this small table tennis school. In the usual training, Li Wanxiang is extremely strict with the team members, especially for Li Jiawei. Li Jiawei once said that if the training results are not ideal, she will really be beaten by her father. In the process of such day after day, Li Jiawei gradually gave birth to the idea of escaping from her father's "clutches".
At the age of 9, Li Jiawei entered the Shichahai Sports School and met Zhang Yining, the later king of the table tennis world, and two people of similar age and personality soon became good friends. In 1996, the people of The Singapore Table Tennis Circle came to China and wanted to select a group of outstanding table tennis players from China. Li Jiawei saw this good opportunity to leave home, and also wanted to get more and better development opportunities, so she wanted to go abroad with all her heart. Eventually she got her wish and came to Singapore.
In her adolescence, Li Jiawei left home alone and wandered alone in strange Singapore. At a young age, she realized that she was particularly homesick, and even her father, who was extremely strict with him when he was at home, was very reluctant and worried about his daughter's departure from a foreign country. However, due to the heavy training and competition tasks, Li Jiawei rarely had the opportunity to return to China to visit her parents. Later, after many years in Singapore, Li Jiawei became a Singaporean national, and with her perseverance and high talent for table tennis, she sat in the position of "first sister" in the Singapore table tennis world.
In 2000, Li Jiawei began representing Singapore at the Olympic Games, and she also met Wang Nan in the quarter-finals of that year's Olympic Games. At that time, although Li Jiawei was young, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and did not regard Wang Nan on the opposite side of the table as a strong opponent. And it was precisely Li Jiawei's mentality that made Wang Nan exhausted at that time. At the same time, this game also made Li Jiawei more mature and stable. Four years later, at the Athens Olympics, she reunited with Wang Nan as an opponent, this time changing to Wang Nan as her underdog.
Although Li Jiawei did not win the medal in the end, she received the support and encouragement of the entire Singapore team and even the Singapore Prime Minister. They are proud of Li Jiawei and regard Li Jiawei as the pride of Singapore's table tennis scene. Under such encouragement, Li Jiawei quickly perked up. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Li Jiawei led singapore teams to defeat the Korean team in the semifinals of the table tennis women's team with a record of 3-2, creating the best Olympic results of Singapore in nearly 50 years.
When Li Jiawei first arrived in Singapore, she was only a small player with no name, but the Singapore team attached great importance to the cultivation of Li Jiawei, and Li Jiawei also gave back to the Singapore team with excellent results, it can be said that they have achieved each other's relationship for so many years. But everything will not be easy to go to consummation, Li Jiawei, who has made such a high achievement in the table tennis career, has experienced twists and turns in her emotional life.
Li Jiawei once fell in love with a Singaporean athlete named Susino. The two met in 2002 and lived together soon after. In the Singaporean sports scene at that time, Li Jiawei and Susino were recognized as golden boys, and almost no one doubted that they would be separated. But after five years of cohabitation, the sweet lover of the past broke up very undignified because of the property in court. And Susino's request for a car and a house from Li Jiawei has also caused many people to have a plummeting impression of him.
At that time, Li Jiawei was preparing for the next year's Beijing Olympic Games, but fortunately, the emotional blow did not affect Li Jiawei's competitive state, and her performance in the 2008 Olympic Games was still eye-catching, and many fans who liked her also relaxed their hearts when they saw Li Jiawei like this. After experiencing a failed relationship, after being introduced by friends, Li Jiawei met Li Chao, who was 8 years older than her. Li Chao is a wealthy businessman who loves table tennis very much, and the common topics between the two have increased.
Li Chao is gentle and caring to Li Jiawei, and Li Jiawei is inevitably moved under such an offensive. In 2009, they walked into the hall of happy marriage hand in hand, as the "first sister" of the Singapore team, when Li Jiawei's wedding also alarmed the Singapore Prime Minister to personally send blessings. Soon after the marriage, Li Jiawei gave birth to a lovely son, but at this time she still needed to go to Singapore for training and was forced to spend less time with her family. Later, after winning the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics, Li Jiawei officially announced her retirement.
After retiring from the army, Li Jiawei founded a table tennis school in Singapore, and she wanted more children who loved table tennis to have enough training opportunities, and at the same time, she also gave back to the Singapore team for her long-term cultivation and support in this way. For her own family, Li Jiawei also took more time to accompany them. Now Li Jiawei serves as the president of "Jiawei Table Tennis Academy" and also enjoys a happy life with her family, which can be described as the biggest winner in life.