郎平：中国女排“五连冠”的开创者
Name: LANG Ping
Gender: W
Date of birth: December 10, 1960
Place of birth: Beijing
Height: 1.84m
Weight: 71kg
Sport: Volleyball
Personal best/最好成绩：
1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - 1st volleyball
1984年洛杉矶奥运会女排冠军
Sports career:
Took up volleyball in a spare-time sports school in Beijing Workers' Gymnasium in April 1973. Joined the volleyball team of Beijing's Chenjinglun Middle School a year later and then entered a volleyball training class in Beijing's No. 2 Spare-time Sports School before becoming a member of the Beijing youth volleyball team.
1973年4月被选入北京工人体育馆少体校排球班，1974年初在北京陈经纶中学加入由西南军区女排队员孟晋华执教的排球队，1974年10月进入北京市第二体育运动学校排球培训班， 后入选北京女排二队。
Promoted to the Beijing municipal team headed by Yuan Weimin in 1976 and chosen by the national team towards the end of 1978. In the national team she played as a chief spiker and served successively as the team's deputy captain, captain and assistant coach.
1976年入选袁伟民执教的北京女子排球一队，1978年底被选入中国女排， 任中国女排主攻手。历任中国女排副队长、队长、助理教练。
Steered the Chinese team to the first world title at the Third World Cup Volleyball Tournament in 1981, before they swept three more major world titles in the 1982 World Championships, 1984 Olympic Games and 1985 World Cup for four straight wins in five years.
先后夺取1981年的第三届世界杯女排赛、1982年的女子排球锦标赛、1984年奥运会和1985年世界杯的四届冠军。
High performances/运动成绩：
1978 Asian Games - 2nd volleyball
1979 Asian Championships - 1st
1981 Bremen International Volleyball Invitational - 1st
1981 World Cup - 1st (China's first world title in women's volleyball)
1982 World Women's Volleyball Championship - 1st
1982 Asian Games - 1st volleyball
1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - 1st volleyball
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