Lang Ping

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Lang Ping
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Medal record
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles Team
FIVB Women's World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1982 Peru Team
Silver medal – second place 1990 China Team
FIVB World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1981 Japan Team
Gold medal – first place 1985 Japan Team

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lang.

"Jenny" Lang Ping (Chinese: 郎平; pinyin: Láng Píng; born December 10, 1960 in Beijing), is a former Chinese volleyball player and the former head coach of the United States women's national volleyball team. Her nickname is the "Iron Hammer".[1]

In 2002, she became an inductee of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts.[2] She coached the U.S. National team to a silver medal in at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in her home country.

She is now coaching the China National Team.

Biography

Lang Ping was born in Beijing. She moved to the United States with her then husband "Frank" Fan Bai to study and serve as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico. When asked of her move, she said she wanted "to taste a normal life."[3] She was married to former Chinese national male handball team player "Frank" Fan Bai from 1987 to 1995. In 1992 They had a daughter named Lydia Bai. Her daughter, a former member of Stanford women's volleyball team, graduated in June 2014 and has been working as investment banking analyst at Jefferies Group since January 2015.[4][5]

She maintains Chinese citizenship despite living in the U.S for more than 15 years.[6]

Career

Lang was a member of the Chinese National Team that won the Gold Medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She was also a member of the team that won World Championship crown in 1982 in Peru and World Cup titles in 1981 and 1985.[7]

Legacy in China

Owing to her central role in the success of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 1980s, Lang was seen as a cultural icon and is one of the most respected people in modern Chinese sports history. At the end of the 1976 Cultural Revolution, China re-joined the sporting world. Though the Chinese ping-pong team won competitions internationally, ping-pong had always been considered a Chinese expertise. Lang and the women's volleyball team was the first team sport to win the World Championship multiple times, concluding with the 1984 Olympics. Lang was the star outside hitter on the team. She will always be remembered as one of the very first world champions for China.[8]

Coaching

Lang Ping was an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico from 1987–89 and 1992-93.[2]

In 1995, Lang became the head coach of the Chinese national team and eventually guided the squad to the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and second place at the 1998 World Championships in Japan.[7] Lang Ping resigned from the Chinese national team in 1998 due to health reasons. In the following year, she took a head coaching position in the Italian professional volleyball league and enjoyed great success there, winning the league championship and the coach of the year award multiple times.

She became the coach of the US National Team in 2005. Lang guided the team to the 2008 Olympics, where the US team faced off with China in her home country. The US team defeated China 3-2. Chinese president Hu Jintao and the then US president George W. Bush attended the match.[9] The match drew 250 million television viewers in China alone. The team went on to win the silver medal, losing to Brazil in the finals 3-1. Lang resigned from the position in 2008, citing that she wanted to spend more time with her family.

She is now coaching the China women's national volleyball team. And her team won the Champion of World Cup 2015 in Japan.

Major titles

Honors

  • Chinese Top Ten Athletes of the year, 1981-1986
  • FIVB Coach of the Year, 1996[2]
  • Woman Volleyball Coach in Italy of the year, 1999-2000

References

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External links

Preceded by United States women's national volleyball team coach
2004-2008		 Succeeded by
New Zealand Hugh McCutcheon
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