{{short description|Chinese Paralympic swimmer}} {{family name hatnote|Song|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Song Lingling |image = Song Lingling Rio2016.jpg |image_size = 245px |caption = Song at the 2016 Paralympics |imagesize = |fullname = |nicknames = |nationality = Chinese |sport = Paralympic swimming |event = Freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, medley<ref name=rio>[https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athlete/lingling-song Song Lingling] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922201141/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athlete/lingling-song |date=2016-09-22 }}, Rio2016, Retrieved 9 September 2016</ref> |club = |coach = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|01|17|df=y}} |birth_place = China |residence = |disability_class = S6 |death_date = |death_place = |height = |weight = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Swimming}} {{MedalCountry|{{CHN}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}} {{MedalGold| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 100 m backstroke S6}} {{MedalSilver| 2012 London | 100 m breaststroke SB5}} {{MedalSilver| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 400 m backstroke S6}} {{MedalSilver| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 200m Individual Medley - SM6}} {{MedalBronze| 2012 London | 400 m freestyle S6}} {{MedalBronze| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 100 m breaststroke SB5}} {{MedalBronze| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 4x100m Freestyle Relay - 34 Points}} {{MedalCompetition| IPC Swimming World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2010 Eindhoven | 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points}} {{MedalGold|2017 Mexico City | 400 freestyle - S6}} {{MedalGold|2017 Mexico City | 100m Backstroke - S6}} {{MedalGold|2017 Mexico City | 100m Breaststroke - SB5}} {{MedalGold|2017 Mexico City | 200m Individual Medley - SM6}} {{MedalGold|2017 Mexico City | 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points}} {{MedalGold|2019 London | 4x50 m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points}} {{MedalSilver|2010 Eindhoven | 400 freestyle - S6}} {{MedalSilver|2019 London | Women's 100m Backstroke - S6}} {{MedalBronze|2010 Eindhoven | 100m Freestyle - S6}} {{MedalBronze|2019 London | 200m Individual Medley - SM6 - S6}} {{MedalCompetition | Asian Para Games}} {{MedalGold | 2018 Jakarta | 400m Freestyle - S7}} {{MedalGold | 2018 Jakarta | 100 Backstroke - S8}} {{MedalGold | 2018 Jakarta | 100m Breaststroke - SB6}} {{MedalGold | 2018 Jakarta | 4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points}} {{MedalSilver | 2018 Jakarta | 50m Freestyle - S6}} {{MedalSilver | 2018 Jakarta | 100m Freestyle - S6}} }}
'''Song Lingling''' (born 17 January 1996) is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer competing in the S6 class. She has won two silver and a gold paralympic medal.
==Life== Song was born in 1996 and she lost the use of her legs due to polio.<ref name=fmt>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160910142110/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-09/09/c_135673822.htm China's Song grabs 100m backstroke S6 gold in Rio], 9 September 2016, Xinhuanet.com, Retrieved 12 September 2016</ref> She took up swimming in Shenyang in 2009 and her club coach was Li Jianhui. Her swimming hero was Ning Zetao. In 2010 at the IPC Swimming World Championships at Eindhoven in the Netherlands she gained a silver and a bronze medal swimming freestyle and a gold medal in the 4x50m medley. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won a silver medal in the SB5 100 m backstroke (S6).<ref name=p2012>{{Cite web |title=Lingling Song - Swimming {{!}} Paralympic Athlete Profile |url=https://www.paralympic.org/lingling-song |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=International Paralympic Committee |language=en}}</ref>
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio she won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke (S6). Her team mate Lu Dong took the silver.<ref name=story>[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2016/sep/08/paralympics-2016-day-one-from-rio-live?page=with:block-57d1cf17e4b07ac3d446a514 Paralympics 2016: Storey clinches 12th gold as Dias thrills Rio crowd – as it happened], The Guardian, Retrieved 9 September 2016</ref> In the 200 metres she took another silver medal after being beaten by Ellie Simmonds of Great Britain.
Song was at the World Para Swimming Allianz Championships in 2019 in London. She was the world record holder and she competed in the 100m backstroke S6 and took silver to the gold gained by Verena Schott of Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=London 2019: Alice Tai's fourth gold ends Long unbeaten run |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/london-2019-alice-tai-s-fourth-gold-ends-long-unbeaten-run |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=International Paralympic Committee |language=en}}</ref>
In 2020 she was at the Paralympic games in Tokyo where she competed in freestyle and breaststroke. She made the finals at several events but did not finish with a medal.<ref name=p2012/>
==Honours== The world's largest trade union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, gave her the National May 1st Labour Medal.<ref name=p2012/>
==References== {{Commons category|Song Lingling}} {{reflist}}
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