Zhang Wenxiu

Zhang Wenxiu

Zhang Wenxiu after winning silver medal at Rio 2016
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	22 March 1986 Liaoning, China
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	113 kg (249 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	77.33 m (2014)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  China Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Hammer throw 2008 Beijing Hammer throw World Championships 2015 Beijing Hammer throw 2007 Osaka Hammer throw 2011 Daegu Hammer throw 2013 Moscow Hammer throw Asian Championships 2005 Incheon Hammer 2009 Guangzhou Hammer Asian Games 2006 Doha Hammer throw 2010 Guangzhou Hammer throw 2014 Incheon Hammer throw

Zhang Wenxiu (simplified Chinese: 张文秀; traditional Chinese: 張文秀; pinyin: Zhāng Wénxiù, born 22 March 1986 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a Chinese female hammer thrower.

Career

She won the 2005 Asian Championships and 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships, seventh at the 2004 Olympics, fifth at the 2005 World Championships and fourth at the 2006 World Cup. She then won bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games.

She also holds the world junior record with 73.24 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Changsha.^[1]

At 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, she originally won the gold medal but was stripped of it after testing positive for the prohibited substance zeranol. Zhang was reinstated after successfully appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which accepted her explanation that the zeranol came from contaminated food.^[2]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  China
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	11th	61.61 m
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	20th (q)	52.31 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	14th (q)	65.09 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	7th	72.03 m
2005	Asian Championships	Incheon, South Korea	1st	70.05 m
	East Asian Games	Macau	1st	72.23 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	4th	69.82 m
2006	World Cup	Athens, Greece	4th	71.19 m[3]
	Asian Games	Doha, Qatar	1st	74.15 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	3rd	74.39 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	3rd	74.32 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	72.57 m
	Asian Championships	Guangzhou, China	1st	72.07 m
2010	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	2nd	73.69 m[4]
	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	1st	72.84 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	3rd	75.03 m
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	3rd	76.34 m
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	75.58 m
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	1st	77.33 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	2nd	76.33 m
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2nd	76.75 m SB

See also

• China at the World Championships in Athletics

References

1. World Junior Records and Best Performances – GBR Athletics
2. AFP (May 6, 2015). "China hammer thrower's gold medal reinstated". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
3. Representing Asia
4. Representing Asia-Pacific

External links

• Zhang Wenxiu profile at IAAF