Wang Fei (volleyball player)

Wang Fei
portrait
birthday	August 6, 1981
place of birth	Henan , China
partner	Tian Jia
successes
2002 - Asian Champion 2005 - 3rd World Championship
(As of July 11, 2011)

Wang Fei ( Chinese  王菲 ; born August 6, 1981 in Henan , People's Republic of China ) is a former Chinese beach volleyball player .

Career

Wang Fei has only played sporadically on the Beach Volleyball World Tour since 1998. Since 2001 she started with Tian Jia ( Chinese  田 佳 ) and won the Chinese Championships in 2001 and the Asian Championships in 2002. The two Chinese women achieved their first victories at the FIVB Tour in 2003 at the Bali Open in Indonesia and the subsequent Italian Open in Milan. In 2004 Tian / Wang took fourth place only once and at the Olympic Games in Athens they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the later Olympic champions Walsh  /  May . In the following year, however, they came to their greatest mutual success. After the silver medal in Gstaad, the two won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Berlin . After losing in the semi-finals to eventual world champions Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor , the Asians defeated Cubans Dalixia Fernandez Grasset and Tamara Larrea Peraza in the game for third place. At the subsequent tournament in Stavanger and at the events in Paris and Klagenfurt, Wang Fei / Tian Jia also achieved third places. After that, the two separated, and Wang Fei did not appear internationally for three years.

At the end of the 2008 tour and their careers, Wang Fei and Tian Jia competed together again and reached thirteenth place in Sanya.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fivb.org/en/beachvolleyball/PlayerBios/Player_DataDB.asp?No=102341

Web links

• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Wang Fei 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. Wang is the family name here, Fei is the first name.