Jin Ziwei

Jin Ziwei ( Chinese  金紫薇 , Pinyin Jīn Zǐwēi ; born October 17, 1985 in Shenyang ) is a Chinese rower .

Jin Ziwei finished fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games with the Chinese eighth . In 1986 she took part in the World Cup in double sculls and in double sculls , but at the World Championships in Eton she again competed in eighth and finished fourth, as in the 2004 Olympic Games.

At the World Cup in Amsterdam in 2007, the Chinese quadruple won with Tang Bin , Jin Ziwei, Xi Aihua and Feng Guixin . At the World Championships in Munich , the Chinese quadruple won the bronze medal behind the British and the Germans. The four rowers, who won the bronze medal in 2007, won the 2008 World Cup regatta in Lucerne. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , Zhang Yangyang was in the boat for Feng Giuxin. In front of a home crowd, the four Chinese women won the gold medal in the double foursome, the first and so far (as of 2012) only Olympic rowing gold medal for the People's Republic of China.

After a break in 2009, Jin Ziwei rowed again in the Chinese quadruple in 2010 and finished seventh at the World Championships on Lake Karapiro . 2011 in Bled she reached fifth place in the A-final with the double foursome. The Chinese quadruple with Jin Ziwei also took fifth place at the 2012 Olympic Games

Web links

• Jin Ziwei in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jin Ziwei at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

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