Jing Junhong represented Singapore in sporting events starting in the 1990s, and was naturalized as a Singaporean citizen in 1994.
16 Facts About Jing Junhong
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Jing Junhong was born in Shanghai, China on 13 October 1968, the child of a teacher and an engineer.
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Jing Junhong became a naturalized citizen of Singapore in 1994.
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In 1995, Jing Junhong represented Singapore at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, where she took second behind Hong Kong's Chai Po Wa, and at the 1995 Southeast Asian Games.
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Jing Junhong represented Singapore in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she competed in the Women's singles event.
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Jing Junhong swept her group, winning all three of her matches, but exited in the round of 16 after losing to China's Qiao Hong.
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Jing Junhong continued collecting medals in the following years, taking a singles title at the 1997 Southeast Asian Games and two doubles and a team title at the 1999 Southeast Asian Games.
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Jing Junhong then defeated Sun Jin, Lijuan Geng, and Mihaela Steff to reach the semifinals, where she was defeated by Li Ju.
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Jing Junhong again won the Sportswoman of the Year award for her Olympic performance.
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In between the 2000 and 2004 Olympic games, Jing Junhong won medals at the 2001 and 2003 Southeast Asian Games, and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
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At the 2004 Olympic Games, Jing Junhong again competed in both the singles and doubles events, reprising her partnership with Li Jiawei in the doubles.
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Jing Junhong became the assistant coach of the Singapore women's table tennis team in 2009.
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Jing Junhong was on the coaching team in the 2012 Summer Olympics when Singapore won two bronze medals, an individual medal by Feng Tianwei and a team medal by Feng Tianwei, Wang Yuegu and Li Jiawei, Jing's former partner.
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In 2013, Jing Junhong was promoted to head coach, and won the Singapore Table Tennis Association's Coach of the Year award in 2013 and 2014.
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In November 2015, following a public dispute with player Yu Mengyu at the International Table Tennis Federation Polish Open and a request by Yu and Feng for a coaching change, Jing Junhong was replaced as the head coach of the women's team.
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Jing Junhong was instead put in charge of several of the Singapore Table Tennis Association's youth development programs, with oversight over both the programs and their coaches.