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Hui Ruoqi | |||||
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![]() Hui in 2017 | |||||
Personal information | |||||
Nationality | Chinese | ||||
Born | 惠若琪 4 March 1991 Dalian, Liaoning, China | ||||
Height | 192 cm (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | ||||
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||
Spike | 315 cm (124 in) | ||||
Block | 305 cm (120 in) | ||||
Volleyball information | |||||
Position | Outside hitter | ||||
Current club | retired | ||||
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Hui Ruoqi (Chinese: 惠若琪; born 4 March 1991) is a Chinese former volleyball player. She was an outside hitter and the fifteenth captain of China women's national volleyball team, and played for Jiangsu.[1] She retired in 2018.
Hui was born in Dalian. Her parents are Hui Fei (惠飞) and Xu Xueyuan (许雪媛). She has a sister Hui Ruoxuan (惠若璇) who is ten years her junior. Both of her parents were keen volleyball players when they were young.[2][3]
When Hui was nine, her family moved and settled in Nanjing.[4]
Hui is an alumnus of Nanjing No.29 Middle School and received her master's degree in physical education from Nanjing Normal University in 2017.[5][6] She then worked on her PhD at the same university.[7]
In 2018, Hui married Yang Zhenbo. The two welcomed a daughter in 2022.[8]
Hui started playing volleyball in elementary school in Nanjing. In 2006, she was chosen for the Jiangsu professional team. In 2007, she was selected for the national team.[9] She was part of the Chinese national team that won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Since 2017, Hui has been a spokeswoman for Adidas.[10]