Li Ping (, born 18 May 1986) is a Chinese-Qatari

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player. With

Cao Zhen Cao Zhen (died April or May 231), courtesy name Zidan, was a military general of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was an adopted son of Cao Cao, a warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and l ...

, he won the gold medal in the mixed doubles event of the

2009 World Table Tennis Championships The 2009 H.I.S. World Table Tennis Championships were held in Yokohama, Japan, from 28 April to 5 May 2009. The Chinese team dominated the competition, following their sweep of the gold medals in table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was ...

, representing China. He represented

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at the

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, losing 3:4 to

Dimitrij Ovtcharov Dimitrij Ovtcharov () or Dmytro Ovtcharov (; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was ...

in the third round. He also won the

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Belarus Open in 2015.

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