Lin Zhi-ai is a Chinese rower. She has won gold medals in the lightweight women's four at World Rowing Championships in 1988 and 1989. At the 1990 World Rowing Championships, she won a bronze medal in the lightweight women's four.[1] At the 1991 World Rowing Championships, she came seventh with the women's eight. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she came fifths in the women's eight.