In the history of world table tennis, there is a legendary athlete.
In 2019, at the age of 56, she won a bronze medal in the women's singles event at the European Games, qualifying for her fifth Olympic Games.
At 58 years old, she competed at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics and is the oldest table tennis player at the Olympics.
In the same year, at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, in the women's doubles competition, he cooperated with teammate Denut to win a bronze medal, which was the first World Table Tennis Championships medal in the history of Luxembourg table tennis.
At the age of 59, that is, in May 2022, she won the 2022 Croatian Table Tennis Women's Super League championship with the Dr. Kassel team; In June, he was awarded the "Oak Crown" medal in Luxembourg.
At the age of 60, in July 2023, she won the WTT feeder race in Haverov, her first WTT title.
She is Ni Xialian, a former Chinese table tennis world champion and now a naturalized Luxembourg table tennis player. Now my aunt is 61 years old, still active in the field, and has no plans to retire. No matter when, as long as she is on the field, it is a beautiful landscape.
She will also be inseparable from her husband, Tomi, who is the head coach of the Luxembourg national team, who has played for Sweden at the time, when he was Sweden's No. 3 player, and at the age of 21, he coached the Australian national team, the youngest national team coach in the world.
Because of her husband's company and encouragement, Aunt Ni has maintained a very good competitive state, it can be said that she has fought all over Europe for so many years, even if she has passed the age of sixties, she is still full of vitality, and she can enter the Olympic Games, do you say that it is magical? !
Speaking of Ni Xialian, older people are still impressed, after all, in the Chinese table tennis team, which is full of strong players, her round face is very recognizable, although she is not a super-first-class player, but she is very famous.
At the age of 26, she chose to go to university to study abroad, playing table tennis in her spare time, her level is particularly eye-catching abroad, and by chance she joined the Luxembourg nationality and represented this country in the competition.
In 1991, Ni Xialian began to represent the Luxembourg table tennis team. In 2016, she was the flag bearer of the Luxembourg delegation at the Rio Olympics at the closing ceremony and is arguably the best athlete in this small country.
Ni Xialian had a second marriage, her first husband was also a table tennis player, and the two had a son after marriage, and lived with her mother after the divorce.
After Ni Xialian and her coach husband got married, they gave birth to another daughter and formed a family of four, and the family was happy and very happy.
The old aunt has a very cheerful personality, often laughs involuntarily when she speaks, and she gets along with her husband with sweet words and praises each other.
This is not her husband's 65th birthday, she holds a small cake and sings a birthday song, just like a little couple in love.
Now that her children have grown up, she will sometimes return to Shanghai to meet friends, see relatives, travel and enjoy leisure time.
But as long as she picks up the racket, she will be possessed by her soul and instantly return to the tense and fierce state of the game, which is easy to say, but how easy is it for an old man with a sixtieth birthday?!
If nothing else, let's just say that exercising is not something that ordinary people can afford.
If not to say that she is a legend, she deserves to make history, and this history is constantly being rewritten by herself.
Come on, Aunt Ni!