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Born | Shouguang,[1] Shandong, China | September 1, 1989
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Sport | Women's goalball |
Disability class | B3[2] |
Medal record |
Fan Feifei (Chinese: 范菲菲; pinyin: Fàn Fēifēi, born 1 September 1989[2]) is a Chinese retired goalball player. She won a silver medal at both the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[3]
Fan had congenital cataract, a kind of visual impairment. She began playing goalball when she was 10 years old; just a year later she helped her province Shandong win a bronze medal at the National Para Games, at the age of 11. Donations poured in after her story was publicized, and she has since gained 20/200 vision through a cataract surgery in Shanghai.[1]
Like her national teammates Lin Shan, Wang Ruixue, and Ju Zhen, Fan started playing the sport under coach Wang Jinqin at the Weifang School of the Blind in Weifang, Shandong.[4]