Team Chile de Tenis de Mesa alcanza el subcampeonato por equipos en el Panamericano de El Salvador

El equipo femenino compuesto por Paulina Vega, Tania Zeng, Daniela Ortega y Judith Morales, perdió en la final con Cuba por 3 a 1 para quedarse con la medalla de plata.

Diario y Radio Universidad Chile
Tania Zeng: \"Independiente del resultado, estoy muy feliz y orgullosa de ser chilena\"

La experimentada tenismesista de 58 años se mostró contenta luego de su histórico debut en París 2024, donde quedó eliminada en la ronda preliminar de su disciplina.

Diario y Radio Universidad Chile
Tania Zeng se despidió de París con una dura batalla ante la libanesa Sahakian

La tenismesista de origen chino demostró un gran nivel que no logró reponerse ante su rival, despidiéndose en la ronda preliminar de los Juegos Olímpicos.

Diario y Radio Universidad Chile

"she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58... On Saturday, not only Chileans will be glued to TV to follow a woman they now call their 'Olympic grandmother.' Zeng’s brother and her 92-year-old father also will watch from China.

"'When he found out that I had qualified, he jumped out of his chair, shouting.. Go figure, a 92-year-old man'"
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Chinese-Chilean table tennis player makes Olympics debut at age 58 in the Paris Games

Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58 under the name she adopted in the South American nation: Tania. Tania Zeng, who became famous in Chile after winning a bronze medal at the Pan-American Games in Santiago last year, retired from table tennis long ago. Though the sport brought her to Chile, she stopped playing to have more time to dedicate to a business she opened and eventually start a family. Her dream of becoming a professional athlete returned during the pandemic. Her pinnacle will be reached in Paris.

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