Wang Feng (artificial jumper)

Wang Feng
Personal information
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Discipline (s) :	Artistic / synchronized jumping
Birthday:	April 17th 1979
Place of birth:	Jinan
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	60 kg

Wang Feng ( Chinese  王峰 , Pinyin Wáng Fēng ; born April 17, 1979 in Jinan ) is a Chinese water diver and multiple world champion in water jumping . At a height of 1.70 m, his competition weight is 60 kg.

Career

Wang Feng was born in 1979 in Jinan (according to other sources in Tai'an ), Shandong Province . He started gymnastics as a child in 1985, before switching to jumping two years later. In 2000 he was appointed to the Chinese national team and won the competition from the 1-meter board at the 2001 World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, ahead of his compatriot Wang Tianling and the Russian Alexander Dobroskok . Two years later at the World Championships in Barcelona he and Wang Tianling competed in synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board, but had to admit defeat to the Russians Dobroskok and Dmitri Sautin and won the silver medal. In 2004 at the Olympic Games in Athens , Wang finished fourth in jumping from the 3-meter board when his compatriot Peng Bo won , before he was able to build on earlier successes a year later at the World Swimming Championships in Montreal . Wang and his compatriot He Chong won the synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board in front of the Germans Tobias Schellenberg and Andreas Wels as well as a bronze medal in the individual competition from the 1-meter board when the Canadian Alexandre Despatie won .

Since 2006, Wang has only entered the dubbing competition with his partner Qin Kai, who is seven years his junior . The duo has since had great success from the allotted three-meter springboard synchronized diving, these include the World Series, two Grand Prix victories and since 2007 six wins world title of Melbourne . In 2008, Wang and Qin also won the competition at the 2008 Olympic Games in their native Beijing . At the following World Championships in Rome in July 2009, both of them won synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board in front of the Americans Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen and the two Canadians Despatie and Reuben Ross .

The university graduate, who counts the former Chinese world-class jumper and Olympic champion Xiong Ni as one of his models, lives in Beijing and is currently being trained by Zhong Shaozhen. At the end of July 2008, he and his Chinese teammate Guo Jingjing were honored to take part in the Olympic torch relay to Beijing, which stopped in Jinan, where the training center for the Chinese national diving team is located.

Web links

• Profile of Wang Feng at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Wang Feng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on the website of the National Olympic Committee of China

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Profile on the website of the National Olympic Committee of China (accessed August 15, 2008)
2. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Brief portrait at nbcolympics.com (English; accessed August 15, 2008)
3. ↑ cf. China's national diving team eyes eight gold medals in Beijing Olympics . Xinhua General News Service, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM EST

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, Feng is the first name.