Lang Ping
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| Personal information | |
| Nickname | Iron Hammer |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Born |
10 December 1960 Tianjin, China |
| Hometown | Tianjin, China |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
| College(s) |
Beijing Normal University University of New Mexico |
"Jenny" Lang Ping (Chinese: 郎平; pinyin: Láng Píng; born 10 December 1960) is a former Chinese volleyball player and the former head coach of the United States women's national volleyball team and the current head coach of China women's national volleyball team, herself being the MVP of women volleyball in 1984 Olympics.
In 2002, she became an inductee of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She coached the U.S. National team to a silver medal in at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in her home country and the gold medal Chinese team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, became the first person, male or female, to have won gold at the Olympics both as a player and as a coach.
Lang Ping was born in Tianjin. She moved to Los Angeles with her former husband Bai Fan (Frank) to study and serve as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico. When asked of her move, she said she wanted "to taste a normal life." She was married to former Chinese national male handball team player "Frank" Fan Bai from 1987 to 1995. In 1992, they had a daughter named Lydia Lang Bai. Her daughter, a former member of Stanford women's volleyball team, graduated in June 2014 and has been working as investment banking analyst at Jefferies Group since January 2015. Lang Ping is currently married to Wang Yucheng who is a professor at China Academy of Social Science.
She maintains Chinese citizenship despite living in the U.S for more than 15 years.
Lang was a member of the Chinese National Team that won the Gold Medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She was also a member of the team that won World Championship crown in 1982 in Peru and World Cup titles in 1981 and 1985.
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