Shao Jieni ( zh, c=邵杰妮, p=Shào Jiénī, born 24 January 1994) is a Chinese-born Portuguese

table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

player. Originally from

Anshan Anshan ( zh, s=鞍山, p=Ānshān, l=saddle mountain) is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about south of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning' ...

, Shao Jieni began her professional career in

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. In 2010, at the age of sixteen and without speaking any English or Portuguese, she moved to

Gondomar, Portugal Gondomar (), officially the City of Gondomar (), is a Portugal, Portuguese Municipalities of Portugal, municipality located in the eastern part of the Porto Metropolitan Area, just from central Porto. The population in 2021 was 164,257, in an are ...

to play for the Ala de Nun'Álvares de Gondomar club. She registered with the Portugal Table Tennis Federation in April 2013 and became a Portuguese national in August 2015. She competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the second round by Lily Zhang.

Achievements

ITTF Tours

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles''

References