Lu Minjia

Lu Minjia
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	29th December 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Zhejiang , China
size	174 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	6.74 m
Trainer	Shen Shengfei
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Championships silver Kobe 2011 6.52 m gold Wuhan 2015 6.52 m gold Doha 2019 6.38 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Hangzhou 2012 6.33 m Junior Asian Championships gold Hanoi 2010 6.47 m silver Hanoi 2010 4 × 100 m  Youth World Championships gold Brixen 2009 6.22 m
last change: April 28, 2019

Lu Minjia ( Chinese  陆 敏 佳 , Pinyin Lù Mǐnjiā ; born December 29, 1992 ) is a Chinese long jumper .

Athletic career

Lu Minjia gained her first international experience at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Bressanone , where she won the gold medal with 6.22 m. Then she also won a medal at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong with 6.24 m, this time bronze. In 2010 she took part in the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha and was eliminated there with 6.25 m in qualification. During the open-air season she won the Junior Asian Championships in Hanoi with 6.47 m in the long jump and silver with the Chinese 4 x 100 meter relay. At the end of October, she took part in the Asian Games in her home city of Guangzhou and reached sixth place with 6.36 m. In 2011 she won the silver medal at the Asian Championships in Kobe behind the Indian Mayookha Johny with 6.52 m and in 2012 she won the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou with 6.33 m .

Two years later she finished seventh at the Continental Cup in Marrakech with 6.14 m and finished sixth at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea with 6.28 m. In 2015 she won the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 6.52 m and thus received a bye for the World Championships in Beijing , where she was eliminated with 6.01 m in qualification . In 2016 he finished sixth at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with a 6.09 m. Two years later she took part again in the Asian Games in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and was fourth there with 6.50 m. At the Asian Championships in Doha in 2019 , she won the title for the second time after 2015 with a width of 6.38 m.

In 2010 and 2017, Lu became the Chinese long jump champion.

Personal best

• Long jump: 6.74 m (+1.0 m / s), October 23, 2009 in Jinan
  • Long jump (indoor): 6.58 m, February 22, 2011 in Nanjing

Web links

• Lu Minjia in the database of World Athletics (English)

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