Wang Xin

This article is about the Chinese water diver. For the badminton player, see Wang Xin (badminton) , for the biathlete Wang Xin (biathlete) .

Wang Xin
Wang Xin in an Olympic training suit
Personal information
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Discipline (s) :	Tower / synchronized jumping
Birthday:	August 11, 1992
Place of birth:	Wuhan

Wang Xin ( Chinese  王鑫 , Pinyin Wáng Xīn ; born August 11, 1992 in Wuhan , Hubei ) is a Chinese water diver . She takes part in individual and synchronous competitions from the 10-meter tower. Her greatest success is the gold medal in synchronized jumping from the tower at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . She is trained by Zhao Wenjin .

At the Asian Games in 2006 , which took place in Doha , Wang Xin won the gold medal in the individual competition from the 10-meter tower. A year later, at the Swimming World Championships in Melbourne in 2007 , she could also achieve gold in this competition. Wang was named to the Chinese squad for the 2008 Summer Olympics in his home country . She was allowed to start in the individual and synchronous competition . Wang Xin won the bronze medal in singles. Together with Chen Ruolin , she took first place in synchronized jumping and won the gold medal. At the 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, Chen Ruolin and Wang Xin won the synchronized competition from the tower.

Web links

• Profile on results.beijing2008.cn. ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile on 2008teamchina.olympic.cn.

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, Xin is the first name.