| Ma Lin | |
| Residence: | Melbourne, Australia (since 2017) |
| Birth Date: | 25 December 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China |
| Playingstyle: | Left-handed shakehand grip |
| Disability Class: | 9 |
| Highest Rank: | 1 (April 2007)[1] |
| Current Rank: | 6 (February 2020) |
| Height: | 173 cm[2] |
| Weight: | 80 kg[3] |
Ma Lin (born December 25, 1989) is a Chinese-Australian table tennis player who has only a left arm. Ma has won five Paralympic medals, four gold, in four Summer Paralympic Games, five world titles and eleven Asian titles in his sport. He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and has been selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Ma lost his right arm at age 5, after he went to the zoo with other children and stuck his arm in a cage to feed a bear.[4] He sustained a knee injury in the 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing.[5] Ma moved to Melbourne,[2] Australia in 2017.[1]
He was named the 2013 Male Para-Table Tennis Star during the ITTF Star Awards in January 2014.[6]
He also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing his only match 0–4 to Thailand's Supanut Wisutmaythangkoon.[7]
He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in Men's Singles C9-10 and Men's Team C9-10 with Nathan Pellissier and Joel Coughlan.[8] [9]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal in the Men's singles C8–10.[10]