The 11-year-old prodigy, the youngest ping-pong player in 52 years, won the Olympic qualification
report from our correspondent (reporter Zhou xueshuai) on March 6, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the results of the Asian region qualifier, in the qualifier of table tennis in the Western Asia region of Tokyo Olympic Games ended in Amman, Jordan, zazar Hende, an 11-year-old girl from Syria, won the women’s singles championship and directly qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
According to the competition system of table tennis qualifier of Tokyo Olympic Games, there are 6 places for men’s and women’s singles in Asia. Among them, the men’s and women’s single champions in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia and Central Asia each won one quota, and the men’s and women’s single runner-up in the five districts competed for the remaining one quota.
In the women’s singles final of the Spanish regional qualifier, zazar Hende and the 43-year-old Lebanese veteran experienced seven battles Mariana. Finally, zazar Hende played 4 to 3, realize the reversal and burst out the cold gate, and directly get the tickets for the Olympic Games.
According to the data of the International Table Tennis Federation, zazar Hende was born on January 1, 2009 and just turned 11 years old.
Therefore, zazar Hende is likely to become the youngest athlete in the Tokyo Olympic Games (the Olympic qualifier has not yet ended), and will also be the youngest Olympic athlete in 52 years. At the same time, she will become the first table tennis player to participate in the Olympic Games in Syrian history.