1. Ma Lin, born on February 19, 1980 in Shenhe District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, is an athlete of the Chinese men's table tennis team and currently the coach of the national table tennis team.

2. He started playing basketball at the age of 7 in 1986 and entered the provincial sports school in 1990. In 1993, Ma Lin entered the Table Tennis School in Shantou, Guangdong. In 1994, at the Guangdong Provincial Games, Ma Lin won three gold medals in singles, doubles and team table tennis for the Shantou team. Later, 14-year-old Ma Lin won his first men's singles championship in a national youth competition. In that game, he was spotted by coach Cai Zhenhua and began his national team career.

3. In 1998, Ma Lin won the Asian Championships men's doubles and men's team championships, as well as the Malaysian and Lebanese Open men's singles championships. In the 1999 World Table Tennis Championships, world famous players such as Marin Lenk Waldner and Samsonov won the men's singles runner-up, the mixed doubles championship and the 2000 World Cup championship. In 2001, he won the men's team championship of the World Table Tennis Championships and the men's singles and doubles championship of the ITTF Tour. 2004 Athens Olympics doubles champion (with Chen_).

4. 2006 World Cup singles champion in Paris, France; 2008 Beijing Olympics men’s team champion and men’s singles champion. At the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, Ma Lin lost to Japanese player Kenta Matsudaira in the men's singles competition and stopped in the second round.

5. On the evening of December 8, 2013, Beijing time, Olympic champion Ma Lin married her girlfriend Zhang Yaqing. At the wedding scene, Ma Lin officially announced her retirement. After retiring, Ma Lin returned to Guangdong and took over as the director of the Guangdong Table Tennis Center and the head coach of Guangdong Table Tennis. Ma Lin has won four World Cup championships in her career and is the first person to win the World Cup men's singles championship consecutively. She is known as Mr. World Cup. He has won 18 world championships, ranking third in the history of national table tennis with Wang Hao and Deng Yaping, second only to Zhang Yining's 19 and Wang Nan's 24.

In March 2017, Ma Lin served as the coach of the national table tennis team.