Lang Ping
Lang Ping
Lang Ping, female, Han nationality, born in Tianjin, China on December 10, 1960, is a former Chinese woman volleyball player and Olympic champion. She is now the head coach of China Women's volleyball team, President of China Volleyball academy and vice president of China Volleyball Association.
In April 1973, Lang Ping entered the volleyball class of Beijing Workers Gymnasium junior sports school to practice volleyball. In 1976, he entered Beijing Amateur Sports School and was selected into Beijing volleyball team in the same year. In 1978, he was selected into the national training team. In 1981, with the Chinese women's volleyball team won the Third World Cup, won the "excellent athlete Award". In 1982, with the Chinese team won the Ninth World Women's Volleyball Championship, and won the world women's Volleyball Championship "MVP". In 1984, with the Chinese team won the gold medal in the women's volleyball competition of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, assisted the Chinese women's volleyball team to achieve three consecutive championships. In 1986, Lang Ping announced his retirement.
In 1995, Lang Ping was employed as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In 1996, Lang Ping was awarded "the best coach in the world" by the International Volleyball Federation. In October 2002, Lang Ping was officially selected into the Volleyball Hall of fame and became the first Asian volleyball player to win this honor. On April 25, 2013, Lang Ping was appointed head coach of the National Women's volleyball team. In February 2015, Lang Ping won the best coach award of 2014 CTV. In February 2016, Lang Ping was elected the person of the year who moved China in 2015. In March, Lang Ping won the "influence the world Chinese Award". In August, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the Rio Olympic championship as head coach. In October, Lang Ping became China's "Mars ambassador.". In December 2016, Lang Ping was elected the best coach in China. On December 15, he won the best coach of the year award of 2016 CCTV sports man of the year. On February 8, 2017, he was rated as the top ten people of the year who moved China in 2016. On December 18, 2018, the Party Central Committee and the State Council awarded Lang Ping the title of reform pioneer and the reform pioneer medal. In January 2019, he will be a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee. In September 2019, he led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the women's Volleyball World Cup.
Early experience
When Lang Ping was born on December 10, 1960, due to natural disasters and other factors, his family's economic conditions were very poor. LANGPING's body is weak, and her mother often uses millet porridge to supplement her nutrition, without giving her special treatment.
At the age of 7, Lang Ping entered Dongguang Road Primary School in Chaoyang District of Beijing.
Sports career
In April 1973, Lang Ping was selected into the volleyball class of Beijing worker's Gymnasium junior sports school to practice volleyball.
In October 1974, Lang Ping entered the volleyball training class of Beijing No.2 sports school.
In 1976, Lang Ping entered the Beijing Women's volleyball team.
In 1978, Lang Ping was selected into the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In the same year, Lang Ping won the silver medal of women's Volleyball in the 8th Asian Games with China.
In 1979, Lang Ping won the second Asian women's Volleyball Championship with the Chinese team.
In 1981, Lang Ping won the championship of international volleyball invitational tournament in Bremen, Germany with the Chinese team, and won the "best attacker Award" for himself. In the same year, he also won the championship of women's Volleyball in the Third World Cup, and won the "excellent athlete Award" for himself.
In 1982, Lang Ping won the gold medal in the 9th World Women's Volleyball Championship and the 9th Asian Games with the Chinese team.
In 1983, Lang Ping won the world super women's Volleyball Championship with the Chinese team.
In 1984, Lang Ping won the women's volleyball gold medal with the Chinese team in the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games.
In 1985, with the Chinese team, Lang Ping won the Shanghai "Xinmin Evening News Cup" international invitational tournament, "Seagull Cup" International Women's volleyball invitational tournament and the fourth World Cup women's Volleyball Championship, and won the "excellent athlete Award" and "best athlete Award".
In 1986, Lang Ping announced his retirement.
Teaching career
Teaching abroad
In 1989, Lang Ping became the head coach of the women's volleyball team of modina club, leading the team to win the Italian Cup.
In 1991, Lang Ping became the head coach of the women's volleyball team of the University of New Mexico in the United States, leading the women's volleyball team of the University of New Mexico to win the women's Volleyball Championship in the eastern region of the United States.
In 1999, Lang Ping became the head coach of Italy's Modena women's volleyball team, leading the team to win the Italian women's Volleyball League Championship in 2000, the European women's Volleyball Championship in 2001, and the Italian League and cup championship in 2002.
From 2002 to 2003, Lang Ping became the head coach of Italian Novara club, leading Novara women's volleyball team to win the Italian Super Cup and the 2004 Italian League Championship.
In February 2005, Lang Ping became the head coach of American women's volleyball team.
In 2007, led the U.S. women's volleyball team to the third place of the world cup, the first time to get tickets to the Beijing Olympic Games.
In 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Lang Ping led the US women's volleyball team to win the silver medal again after 24 years.
2008-2009 season coach Turkey Ankara Telecom women's volleyball team into the top four of the league..
Teaching in China
In 1990, Lang Ping returned to the national team and led the Chinese women's volleyball team to second place in the 11th women's Volleyball Championship.
On February 15, 1995, Lang Ping was invited to return to China from the United States as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In the same year, he led the team to win the third place in the women's Volleyball World Cup.
In 1996, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the silver medal in the Atlanta Olympic Games.
In 1997, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the Ninth Asian women's Volleyball Championship.
In 1998, Lang Ping led the team to win the 13th World Women's Volleyball Championship runner up and the 13th Asian Games volleyball gold medal.
In 2009, Lang Ping coached Guangdong Evergrande women's volleyball team. Led Evergrande women's volleyball team to win the 2009-2010 National Women's Volleyball League A B championship, 2010-2011 National Women's Volleyball League a runner up, 2011-2012 National Women's Volleyball League a champion, 2012-2013 National Women's Volleyball League a runner up.
On April 25, 2013, Lang Ping became the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team and won the second place in the 2014 women's Volleyball World Championship.
In May 2015, Lang Ping led the Chinese team to regain the Asian Championship in Tianjin.
From August 22 to September 6 of the same year, in the women's Volleyball World Cup, Lang Ping led the Chinese team to win the world cup for the fourth time in 12 years with a record of 10-1 and 30 points. This is also the first three World Series champion in Lang Ping's coaching career and the eighth world champion of the Chinese women's volleyball team. The winning Chinese women's volleyball team also qualified for the Rio Olympics.
On August 21, 2016, Lang Ping, as head coach, led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the Rio Olympic championship with a total score of 3:1 (19:25, 25:17, 25:22, 25:23) over Serbia.
On March 29, 2017, China Volleyball Association announced the notice of women's volleyball training in 2017, and Lang Ping will be the head coach. On the evening of September 26 of the same year, Chinese volleyball players held a grand party in Beijing Xingguang vision center, which not only presented the major awards of last season's League, but also held the launching ceremony of volleyball Super League. Lang Ping, head coach of the national team, said publicly in front of the media that she had ended her "sick leave" and began to return to the team. She led the girls to climb and roll in the training hall. She will accompany them through the last training session of the national team this year on the Mid Autumn Festival and national day.
On the evening of April 23, 2018, the International Volleyball Federation announced the names of all the teams that will play in the 2018 World Women's Volleyball National League. Lang Ping came back as coach of the women's volleyball team and led the team to the National League. In August of the same year, Lang Ping was shortlisted for the second IOC lifetime Coach Award.
On January 6, 2019, Lang Ping was appointed member of the Chinese Olympic Committee. In September of the same year, he led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the women's Volleyball World Cup with 11 wins.
In July 2020, Lang Ping confirmed that his idea of quitting the front-line coaching of volleyball after the Tokyo Olympic Games has not changed.
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Outside life
family life
Lang Ping's father is a sports fan. Whenever he has a chance, his father takes Lang Ping to the Beijing Workers' Stadium near his home to watch the game. His father's love of sports influenced Lang Ping. In the memory of Lang Ping's youth, volleyball left a good impression on her.
marriage
In 1987, Lang Ping combined with Bai fan, a former member of Bayi men's volleyball team. After a grand wedding in Beijing Hotel, Lang Ping went to the United States to study and gave birth to his daughter Bai Lang in 1992. In 1995, Lang Ping and Bai fan divorced in the United States. According to local law, they each shared half of the custody. After the divorce, they are still friends and respect each other. Since Lang Ping was busy teaching the Chinese women's volleyball team after returning home, his daughter has been living in the United States with Bai fan.
Since then, Lang Ping had an American boyfriend, a 1.96-meter-tall doctor of political economy, who loved sports very much. However, this marriage ended when Lang Ping was ordered to return to China to take charge of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 1990s.
On January 16, 2016, Lang Ping and Wang Yucheng, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, got married in Beijing
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