Chinese name: Lin Dan
Foreign name: Lin Dan
Alias: Super Dan, Super Dan
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han
Wife: Xie Xingfang
Birthplace: Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province
Date of Birth: 1983 (Year of Guihai) October 14th
Graduation institution: Huaqiao University School of Management
Degree: Master
Height: 178 cm
Sports: Badminton men's singles
Sports team: Chinese Badminton Team
Professional characteristics: Diagonally hanging with an overhead skateboard, diving to save the ball
Personal profile :
Lin Dan, the men’s singles champion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. In the history of badminton, he is the first Grand Slam player to combine Olympic champion, World Championship champion, World Cup champion, Asian Games champion, Asian Championship champion, All England champion and multiple World Badminton Super Series champions.
In 1988, Lin Dan started to get into badminton.
In 1992, he entered Fujian Sports School. In 1995, he joined the Fuzhou Bayi Work Team.
In 2000, he entered the national team. In August 2002, he ranked first in the International Badminton Federation rankings.
In the 2005 Sudirman Cup final, Lin Dan, who played in his second game, defeated Tawfik, who was already an Olympic champion at the time. His military salute after the game became one of his signature moves. .
In 2008, Lin Dan won the Beijing Olympic Games badminton men's singles championship. Lin Dan thus became the first player in badminton history to win the All England, World Championships, World Cup and Olympic gold medals.
In November 2010, he won the men's singles championship at the Guangzhou Asian Games and became the first Chinese player to win the Asian Games Most Valuable Athlete.
In June 2011, Lin Dan’s wax figure entered Madame Tussauds Shanghai, becoming one of the only athletes in China to have a personal wax figure.
In 2012, he won the badminton men's singles gold medal at the London Olympics and successfully defended his title. Lin Dan became the first athlete to defend his Olympic badminton men's singles title.
On September 29, 2014, he won the men's singles championship at the Incheon Asian Games.