Hey Chong

Hey Chong
He Chong at the 2008 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Discipline (s) :	Artistic / synchronized jumping
Birthday:	June 10, 1987
Place of birth:	Zhanjiang
Size:	169 cm
Weight:	69 kg

He Chong ( Chinese  何 冲 , Pinyin Hé Chōng , born June 10, 1987 in Zhanjiang , Guangdong ) is a Chinese diver . At a height of 1.70 m, his competition weight is 62 kg.

He Chong was born in 1987 in Guangdong Province ( Zhanjiang , according to other sources ). He attended the sports school in the Chikan District of Zhanjiang from 1994 and was elected to the Guangdong provincial selection four years later. In 2000 He was able to win the Asian Youth Championships, while in 2001 he was appointed to the Chinese national jumping team. A year later he was kicked out of the national squad due to inconsistent performance. This allowed He to mature according to his own statements and at the end of 2004 he dared to make more difficult jumps.

The return to China's national jumping team and international success with the seniors was granted to He from 2005 onwards. At the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montréal, Canada, he and his compatriot Wang Feng, who was eight years his senior, won the synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board in front of the Germans Tobias Schellenberg and Andreas Wels, and a bronze medal in the individual 3-meter competition when the Canadian Alexandre Despatie won -Board. In the same year he was successful with Wang at five Grand Prix in synchronized jumping and won the 3-meter board competitions in individual at the International Springer Day in Rostock and in the American Spring Swallows. By 2007, eleven more Grand Prix victories followed, five of them in the individual competition and six in synchronized jumping, each from the 3-meter board. He was on the previous success in the World Swimming Championships in 2007 in the Australian Melbourne only partially tie when he in the victory of his teammate Qin Kai does not progress beyond a sixth place from the 3-meter board and behind his compatriot Luo Yutong with the silver medal from the 1 meter board had to be satisfied. In preparation for the Olympic Games in his native Beijing , the jumper then concentrated more on the individual competition from the 3-meter board. In 2008, he won two Grand Prix competitions, the Canada Cup and the China Open , and the World Series competitions in Sheffield and Nanjing , where he relegated his teammate Qin Kai to second place. At the Olympic Games he finally won the gold medal in jumping from the 3-meter board ahead of Alexandre Despatie and Qin Kai, where he received the top score of 10.0 points eleven times in the final round (6 jumps). He was able to build on this success in July 2009 at the World Swimming Championships in Rome , where he won the gold medal from the 3-meter board in front of the American Troy Dumais and the Canadian Alexandre Despatie. He was also able to win the title of the 3-meter board at the 2011 home world championships in Shanghai . A year later at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he had to be content with bronze behind the Olympic champion Ilya Sakharov from Russia and his teammate Qin Kai. In the semi-finals, he had relegated Sakharov to second place.

The student lives in Beijing and is currently being trained by Liu Henglin. Both in competitions and outside the swimming pool, He stands out for his self-confident and daring behavior and includes a two-and-a-half somersault with three screws with a degree of difficulty of 3.8 in his jumping repertoire.

Web links

Commons : He Chong  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile on the website of the National Olympic Committee of China (English)
• Brief portrait at nbcolympics.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Profile on the website of the National Olympic Committee of China (accessed August 19, 2008)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Brief portrait at nbcolympics.com (English; accessed on August 19, 2008)
3. ↑ cf. China wins 6th Olympic diving gold medal . Associated Press , Aug 19, 2008, Beijing 02:14 PM GMT

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