While toiling one day in 1973, she seriously sprained her right foot, which was subsequently amputated due to no timely treatment.

[1] In 1987, she won a gold medal at a national women's singles table tennis competition.

[5] Zhang represented China for the first time at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, and won gold in the open event.

She represented China again at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but, for the first time, she only competed in the singles.

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