Lang Ping
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lang.
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| Gold | 1984 Los Angeles | Team | |
Lang Ping (simplified Chinese: 郎平, also known as Jenny Lang Ping, born December 10, 1960 in Tianjin, China; Ethnic Manchus), is a Chinese volleyball player. She has been the head coach of the U.S. women's national volleyball team since February 7, 2005. Her nickname is "Iron Hammer" (simplified Chinese: 铁榔头).
According to USA Volleyball, Lang was a member of the China women's national volleyball team that won a Los Angeles Olympic gold medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a World Championship crown in 1982 in Peru and World Cup titles in 1981 and 1985.
In 1995, Lang became the head coach of the Chinese national team and eventually guided the squad to the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and second place at the 1998 World Championships in Japan. Lang Ping resigned the coach position in 1998 due to health reasons. In the following year, she took the coach position in an Italian volley club, where she won the Best Woman Volleyball Coach in Italy of the year multiple times. In 2002, she became an inductee of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
[edit] Major titles
- World Cup 1981 (World Champion)
- World Championship 1982 (World Champion)
- Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984 (World Champion)
- World Cup 1985 (World Champion)
[edit] Honors
- Chinese Top Ten Athletes of the year, 1981-1986
- FIVB Coach of the Year, 1996
- Woman Volleyball Coach in Italy of the year, 1999-2000
