Su Bingtian

Su Bingtian
Su Bingtian in Rio de Janeiro 2016
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	29th August 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Chaozhou , China
size	172 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter run
Best performance	9.91 s
society	Guangdong Province Athletic Team
Trainer	Yuan Guoqiang , Randy Huntington
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games 3 × 1 × 1 × Indoor Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 3 × 1 × 1 × Summer Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships silver Beijing 2015 4 × 100 m  Indoor world championships silver Birmingham 2018 60 m  Asian Games gold Guangzhou 2010 4 × 100 m gold Incheon 2014 4 × 100 m silver Incheon 2014 100 m gold Jakarta 2018 100 m bronze Jakarta 2018 4 × 100 m Indoor Asian Games gold Hanoi 2009 60 m Asian Championships silver Guangzhou 2009 4 × 100 m gold Kobe 2011 100 m gold Pune 2013 100 m bronze Pune 2013 4 × 100 m gold Wuhan 2015 4 × 100 m  Universiade bronze Shenzhen 2011 100 m
last change: November 3, 2019

Su Bingtian ( Chinese  蘇 炳 添  /  苏 炳 添 , Pinyin Sū Bǐngtiān; born August 29, 1989 in Chaozhou ) is a Chinese sprinter who specializes primarily in the 100-meter run . He is the holder of the Asian records over 60 meters indoors and 100 meters outdoors.

Athletic career

Su Bingtian gained his first international experience at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong in 2009 , where he won the gold medal in the 100-meter run and bronze in the Chinese 4-by-100-meter relay in 10.33 seconds . He then won the gold medal in the 60-meter run at the Indoor Asian Games in Hanoi in 6.65 s . Shortly afterwards he won the silver medal at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou with the relay in 39.07 s . In the following year he took part in the Asian Games for the first time there and won the Chinese relay in 38.78 seconds ahead of the teams from Taiwan and Thailand. In 2011 he won over 100 meters in the Asian Championships in 10.21 s and finished fourth in the relay in 39.33 s. He then won bronze in 10.27 seconds at the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen . With the relay he qualified for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea and retired with 38.87 s in the lead.

In 2012 he reached the semi-finals at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul over 60 meters and was eliminated there with 6.74 seconds. During the outdoor season, he qualified for the Olympic Games in London , where he was eliminated with 10.28 s in the semi-finals over 100 meters. In addition, he also took part with the Chinese relay and dropped despite a new national record of 38.38 s in advance of. The following year he defended his title over 100 meters at the Asian Championships in Pune, India, and won bronze in the relay. At the World Championships in Moscow he was disqualified in the semifinals over 100 meters because of a false start and did not make it to the final with the relay. In early October he won again at the East Asian Games in Tianjin over 100 meters and won bronze with the relay. In 2014 he was fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot over 60 meters in 6.52 s and won silver over 100 meters in 10.10 s and gold in 37.99 s with the relay at the Asian Games in Incheon .

In 2015 he was the first runner born in Asia at the Prefontaine Classic to stay below the 10-second mark with 9.99 seconds . In early June he won the relay at the Asian Championships in Wuhan in 39.04 s. At the World Championships in Beijing , he set his best performance in the semifinals and was the first Chinese to qualify for a final of a sprint competition. There he was ninth in 10.06 s. On the final day of the championships he won with the season in the cast Mo Youxue , Xie Zhenye , Su Bingtian and Zhang Peimeng in 38.01 s the silver medal behind Jamaica. In the run-up, the Chinese quartet set an Asian record with 37.92 seconds. In 2016 he reached the 60-meter final again at the World Indoor Championships in Portland and finished it in fifth place in 6.54 s. He qualified again for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was eliminated in the semifinals with 10.08 s and reached fourth place in the season with 37.90 s in the final .

The Chinese team finished third at the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas . At the World Championships in London, he reached the final again and was eighth there in 10.27 s. With the relay this time he came in fourth place in 38.34 s . At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , he set a new Asian record in the 60 meter final with 6.42 s and is thus (as of 2018) in fourth place on the all-time best list. He won the silver medal behind the American Christian Coleman . At a meeting in Madrid and Paris, he equalized the Asian record over 100 meters with 9.91 s, which he now holds together with Femi Ogunode . In late August, he took part for the third time in the Asian Games in Jakarta and won there with a new championship record of 9.92 s before the Katari Tosin Ogunode and the Japanese Ryota Yamagata . In addition, he won the bronze medals behind the teams from Japan and Indonesia with the Chinese relay in 38.89 seconds.

At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , he finished fourth in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 38.16 seconds and at the end of September he reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Doha over 100 meters , in which he was 10 , 23 s retired. In addition, he finished sixth with the relay in 38.07 s.

In 2009, 2012 and 2018, Su became the Chinese 100-meter champion and in 2011 the 60-meter indoor champion. He graduated from Jinan University in Guangzhou with a degree in economics .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 9.91 s (+0.2 m / s), June 22, 2018 in Madrid ( Asian record )
  • 60 meters (indoor): 6.42 s, March 3, 2018 in Birmingham ( Asian record )

Web links

Commons : Su Bingtian  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Su Bingtian in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Su Bingtian in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vincent Wu: 9.99 is not the limit for Su ( English ) IAAF. June 17, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
2. ^ Emeterio Valiente: Sprint records fall in Madrid ( English ) IAAF. June 22, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
3. ↑ Jad Adrian Washif: Su sprints to 100m crown in 9.92 Asian Games at ( English ) IAAF. August 26, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

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