Fu Mingxia

Fu Mingxia
Personal information
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Birthday:	16th August 1978 (age 42)
Place of birth:	Wuhan

Fu Mingxia ( Chinese  伏明霞 , Pinyin Fu Mingxia , * 16th August 1978 in Wuhan ) is a former Chinese water jumper . She won two gold medals each in artificial diving and in diving.

Her father taught her to swim very early on, and she started doing gymnastics when she was five, but soon switched to diving. In 1990 she moved to Beijing to train with Xu Yiming . It was used early on in international championships. In 1991 she became the youngest world diving champion when she won gold from the tower in Perth . A year later, at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​she became the youngest Olympic champion in diving and the second youngest ever Olympic champion, only the American Marjorie Gestring was younger in 1936 when she won artificial jumping.

After a world championship title in Hiroshima in 1994, she became Olympic champion on the 3-meter board and the tower at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the first double Olympic champion since Ingrid Krämer in 1960. After nine years of training at the highest level, she concentrated on her in the following years Graduated from Tsinghua University , but returned to diving in 1999. At the 2000 Olympic Games, she won gold from the 3-meter board, and was the first ever female diver to win gold at three Olympic Games.

In 2002, Fu Mingxia married bank manager Antony Leung in Hong Kong, and their daughter was born a year later. In 2005, Fu Mingxia was inducted into the International Swimming Sports Hall of Fame .

successes

• 1990 Goodwill Games : 1st place high diving
• 1990 Asian Games: 3rd place diving
• 1991 World Swimming Championships: 1st place in diving
• 1992 Olympic Games : 1st place high diving
• 1994 World Swimming Championships: 1st place in diving
• 1994 Asian Games: 2nd place artificial jumping
• 1996 Olympic Games : 1st place jumping
• 1996 Olympic Games: 1st place in diving
• 1999 Universiade : 1st place artificial jumping
• 1999 Universiade: 1st place in diving
• 2000 Olympic Games : 1st place in jumping
• 2000 Olympic Games: 2nd place synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board together with Guo Jingjing

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Web links

• Fu Mingxia in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Fu is the family name here, Mingxia is the first name.