Jiao Zhimin (Chinese:

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焦志敏; December 1, 1963) is a female Chinese

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 former table tennis

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 player. She won a bronze medal

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 in women's singles and a silver medal

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 in women's doubles at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games

1988 Summer Olympics

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. She was a semi-finalist in women's singles and doubles at the 1985 World Championships

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 in Gothenburg

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. At the 1987 World Championships in New Delhi

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 she was runner-up in the mixed doubles, and was a member of China's victorious team.

She married South Korean table tennis player Ahn Jae-hyung

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 in 1989. The couple's son, golf

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er An Byeong-hun

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, became the youngest champion in United States Amateur Championship history, winning the 2009 event at the age of 17. In recent years Jiao has hosted a talk show on China's CCTV-5

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television sports channel.