Fifty-one-year-old Zhang Xiaoling will make a record sixth appearance at the Paralympic Games next month in Beijing.

The oldest among Chinese Paralympic athletes, Zhang will enter the women's table tennis TT8-category event.

Zhang, a native of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, made her debut at the Paralympic Games in 1998 and has won all the gold medals in both table tennis TT8-category individual event and TT8-TT10 group competitions since 1988.

(Xinhua News Agency August 29, 2008)