Lü Lin (table tennis)
Table tennis player

Lü Lin (table tennis)

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Table tennis player
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6 April 1969(Wenling)
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Lü Lin (Chinese: 吕林; born April 6, 1969 in Wenling) is a Chinese table tennis player and Olympic champion. He uses a pen-grip topspin style, and is best known for the combination of him and Wang Tao in men's double championships.
He won a gold medal in double at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with Wang Tao.
They took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta again, where they won a silver medal.
The combo also won the men's doubles title at 1993 and 1995 World Table Tennis Championships.
Lü Lin's son, Lü Xiang (born 1996), is also a table tennis player. He won the Men's Doubles title at the 2014 German Open.