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Ma Lin (Paralympian)

Ma Lin (Paralympian)

Chinese-Australian para table tennis player

Ma Lin (Chinese: 马麟, born December 25, 1989) is a Chinese-Australian table tennis player who has only a left arm.

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.

Ma has won five Paralympic medals, four gold, in four Summer Paralympic Games, five world titles and eleven Asian titles in his sport.[1] He was named the 2013 Male Para-Table Tennis Star during the ITTF Star Awards in January 2014.[4]

Ma lost his right arm at age 5, after he went to the zoo with other children and stuck his arm in a cage to feed a bear.[2][5] He sustained a knee injury in the 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing.[6]

Move to Australia

Ma moved to Melbourne,[1] Australia in 2017.[3]

He also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing his only match 0–4 to Thailand's Supanut Wisutmaythangkoon.[7]

He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in Men's Singles C9-10 and Men's Team C9-10 with Nathan Pellissier and Joel Coughlan.[8][9]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal in the Men's singles C8–10.[10]

References

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    "Ma Lin - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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    "Ma Lin". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.[dead link]
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    "Ma Lin - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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    "Paralympians honoured at ITTF's Star Awards". International Paralympic Committee. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
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    Lin Benjian; Zhao Baotong (17 September 2008). "马麟向马琳看齐". Yangcheng Evening News (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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    "Ma Lin targets table tennis trifecta". International Paralympic Committee. 7 September 2016.
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    "Ma Lin". ITTF. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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    "Para-Table Tennis Squad's Tokyo Build-Up A 'Brilliant Example Of Teamwork'". Paralympics Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
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    "Ma Lin". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  10. [10]
    "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2022.

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