20 Facts About Lang Ping

Lang Ping is the former head coach of the Chinese women's national volleyball team and US women's national volleyball team.

In 2002, Lang Ping became an inductee of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Lang Ping coached the US women's national team to a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in her home country.

Lang Ping later coached the gold medal-winning Chinese women's national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, becoming the first person in volleyball history, male or female, to have won Olympic gold both as a player and as a coach.

Lang Ping is the main character in the 2020 biographical film Leap, in which she is played by actress Gong Li.

Lang Ping was married to Chinese former handball player "Frank" Bai Fan from 1987 to 1995.

Lang Ping is currently married to Wang Yucheng, a professor at the China Academy of Social Science.

In 1987, Lang Ping moved to Los Angeles with Bai to study and serve as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico.

Lang Ping was a member of the team that won the World Championship crown in 1982 in Peru and won World Cup titles in 1981 and 1985 in Japan.

Lang Ping captained the 1985 World Cup team and was named the most valuable player of the tournament.

Lang Ping was named one of China's Top Ten Athletes of the year from 1981 to 1986.

Lang Ping is remembered as one of the first world champions for China.

In 1995, Lang Ping 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 and second place at the 1998 World Championships in Japan.

Lang Ping resigned from the Chinese national team in 1998 for health reasons.

Lang Ping was selected 1996 FIVB Coach of the Year.

Lang Ping became the coach of the US National Team in 2005.

Lang Ping guided the team to the 2008 Olympics, where the US team faced off with China in her home country.

Lang Ping allowed her contract to run out later that year, citing that she wanted to coach a club so as to spend more time with her family.

Lang Ping became the head coach of the China women's national volleyball team for the second time in 2013 and won the World Cup in Japan in 2015.

On September 29,2019, after China swept all eleven matches to defend the World Cup title, Lang Ping became the first person to win the back-to-back World Cup champions both as a player and as a coach.