Fu Tianyu

Fu Tianyu
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	July 16, 1978
place of birth	Heilongjiang
size	161 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
National squad	since 2002
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
World Cup medals 4 × 11 × 4 × Universiade medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Short track world championships silver 2002 Montreal 3000 m relay gold 2003 Warsaw 3000 m relay bronze 2003 Warsaw 500 m silver 2004 Gothenburg 3000 m silver 2004 Gothenburg 3000 m relay bronze 2004 Gothenburg 1000 m silver 2005 Beijing 3000 m relay bronze 2005 Beijing 500 m gold 2006 Minneapolis 3000 m relay silver 2006 Minneapolis 500 m silver 2007 Milan 3000 m relay bronze 2008 Gangneung 3000 m relay World team championships silver 2003 Sofia team silver 2004 St. Petersburg team silver 2005 Chuncheon team silver 2006 Montreal team silver 2007 Budapest team gold 2008 Harbin team gold 2009 Heerenveen team  Winter Universiade bronze 1999 Poprad 3000 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup October 18, 2002  World Cup victories 25 (including 7 individual wins)  Overall World Cup 1. ( 02/03 )  500 m world cup 1. ( 2003/04 )  1000 m world cup 4. ( 03/04 )  1500 m world cup 5. ( 03/04 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 5 12 5  1000 meters 0 2 1  1500 meters 1 1 1  3000 meters 1 0 3  Relay / team 18th 8th 0

Fu Tianyu (born July 16, 1978 in Heilongjiang Province ; Chinese  付 天 余 , Pinyin Fù Tiānyú ) is a former Chinese short tracker .

Career

Internationally, Fu started for the first time at the Winter Universiade 1999, where she won the bronze medal over 3000 meters. She also reached the final in two other disciplines and was once fifth and once disqualified. After that, she did not take part in any other major competitions for three years, but only again at the team world championship in 2002, where she won two titles with the Chinese team. Half a year later, in October 2002, Fu was nominated for the first time for the World Cup in Korea, in which she reached three finals and achieved a second, a third and a fourth place. She also managed a few podium finishes at the next World Cup and, with the 3000 m relay, won her first victory at the second World Cup in her home country. Four more triumphs, including three in individual races, followed in the 2002/03 season, with which she was able to win the overall World Cup of that season. In addition, she was again multiple team world champion and bronze medalist over 500 meters at the 2003 World Championships . Here she was also able to win the world title with the relay.

In the next season Fu achieved five more World Cup victories, three with the relay, two over 500 meters, with which she was able to win the 500 m World Cup. In addition, she was able to win three medals at the 2004 World Cup, two silver and one bronze, and she also defended the team world championship title. Further World Cup successes came in the 2004/05 season, plus two medals, one silver and one bronze, at the world championships. In the World Cup, the 2005/06 season went without a single success, but Fu was able to finish third in the 500 m World Cup. She also focused on this track, on which she had achieved the best results, at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , where she competed as one of six Chinese short trackers . After she had won all preliminary heats and the semifinals, she was disqualified in the final and missed an Olympic medal. Also in the season together with Cheng Xiaolei , Wang Meng and Yang Yang , the final ended with the disqualification. However, she won another three medals, including a victory in the relay, at the 2006 World Cup.

Again without individual success in the World Cup, Fu remained in the 2006/07 season, and she also missed a medal in individual races at the World Cup. She won silver with the relay. She also won the silver medal at the 2007 Short Track Team World Championships in Budapest . Also in the Short Track World Cup 2007/08 she was denied a single success, but like in the previous year she took four second places. At the Short Track World Championships in Gangneung in 2008 , she won bronze with the relay. She won the gold medal at the 2008 Short Track Team World Championships in Harbin . In her last season, 2008/09 , she came second and once in third place over 500 m and thus reached fourth place in the overall World Cup over 500 m. As in the previous year, she won the gold medal at the 2009 Short Track Team World Championships in Heerenveen .

World Cup victories

singles No. date place discipline 1. November 29, 2002  St. Petersburg 500 m 2. February 15, 2003  Chicoutimi 1500 m 3. February 16, 2003  Chicoutimi 3000 m 4th February 7, 2004  Mladá Boleslav 500 m 5. February 13, 2004  Montreal 500 m 6th October 30, 2004  Beijing 500 m 7th February 4, 2005  Budapest 500 m

Season No. date place 1. October 27, 2002  Beijing 1 2. December 1, 2002  Saint Petersburg 1 3. December 7, 2003  Beijing 2 4th February 8, 2004  Mladá Boleslav 3 5. February 14, 2004  Bormio 3 6th November 28, 2004  Hartford 4 7th December 5, 2004  Saguenay 4 8th. February 5, 2005  Budapest 4 9. February 12, 2005  Spišská Nová Ves 4 10. October 2, 2005  Hangzhou 5 11. October 9, 2005  Seoul 4 12. October 29, 2006  Jeonju 6 13. December 3, 2006  Saguenay 7 14th February 11, 2007  Budapest 7 15th October 21, 2007  Harbin 8 16. October 28, 2007  Kobe 8 17th November 25, 2007  Heerenveen 8 18th December 2, 2007  Turin 8 1With Yang Yang (A) , Wang Chunlu and Wang Meng . 2With Wang Wei , Wang Meng and Su Linlin . 3With Wang Wei, Wang Meng and Cheng Xiao Lei . 4th With Wang Meng, Yang Yang (A) and Cheng Xiao Lei. 5With Yang Yang (A), Wang Meng and Zhu Mi Lei . 6th With Wang Meng, Zhu Mi Lei and Liu Xiao Ying. 7th With Wang Meng, Zhu Mi Lei and Cheng Xiao Lei. 8thWith Wang Meng, Liu Qiuhong and Zhou Yang .

Web links

• Portrait on sports.sina.com
• Fu Tianyu on shorttrackonline.info
• Fu Tianyu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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, Tianyu is the first name.