Zeina Shaban is a Jordanian table tennis player and a member of the Jordanian royal family.
15 Facts About Zeina Shaban
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Zeina Shaban is considered one of Jordan's most promising athletes for her excellence and outstanding achievement in sport.
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Zeina Shaban competed at the ITTF World Junior Cup circuit and Liebherr World Championships, and achieved her sporting success by winning two silver medals from the Arab Cup.
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Zeina Shaban is right-handed and uses the shakehand grip with an attacking chopper.
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Zeina Shaban rapidly changed her life, when she first met Chinese table tennis player and then-world champion Deng Yaping, who motivated her to play for the sport.
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Zeina Shaban continued to build her success in sport by participating as the nation's leading player at the ITTF World Junior Circuit, ITTF Pro Tour and at both the Liebherr World Individual Championships and World Team Championships.
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Zeina Shaban won two silver medals at the Arab Cup in Sanaa, Yemen and in Beirut, Lebanon.
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In 2003, Zeina Shaban became a seasoned veteran, and was named Jordan's athlete of the year.
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Zeina Shaban became one of the most distinguished and promising athletes to be selected for an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship, which helped improve her chances to qualify for the Olympic games.
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At age sixteen, Zeina Shaban made her debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, after booking her place from the West Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar.
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Zeina Shaban reached the second preliminary match of the women's singles, where she lost to three-time Olympian Adriana Simion-Zamfir of Romania.
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At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Zeina Shaban was given the honor and prestige of carrying the nation's flag in the opening ceremony.
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Zeina Shaban is a member of TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen and 3B Berlin Table Tennis Club in Germany, being coached and trained by Swedish national Anders Johansson.
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Zeina Shaban is a management graduate, with a degree major in economics, at the Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Zeina Shaban has given birth to two sons, Prince Hassan and Prince Talal since her marriage.