Wang Zheng (athlete)

Wang Zheng
Wang Zheng in Berlin-Marzahn 2017
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	14th December 1987 (age 32)
place of birth	Xi'an , China
size	175 cm
Weight	105 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	77.68 m (March 29, 2014 in Chengdu )
Trainer	Ou Xiyuan
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 2 × Asian Games 0 × 3 × 0 × Asian Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Moscow 2013 74.90 m silver London 2017 75.98 m bronze Doha 2019 74.76 m  Asian Games silver Guangzhou 2010 68.17 m silver Incheon 2014 74.16 m silver Jakarta 2018 70.86 m Asian Championships gold Pune 2013 72.78 m gold Doha 2019 75.66 m Junior Asian Championships gold Macau 2006 60.16 m
last change: September 28, 2019

Wang Zheng ( Chinese  王 峥 , Pinyin Wáng Zhēng; born December 14, 1987 in Xi'an ) is a Chinese hammer thrower .

Athletic career

Wang Zheng gained his first international experience at the Junior Asian Championships in Macau . in which she won the gold medal with 60.16 m. She then took part in the Junior World Championships in Beijing and was there with 59.12 m in the final ninth. In 2008 she qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing and was eliminated there with 65.64 m in the qualification . In 2009 she won the East Asian Games in Hong Kong with a width of 67.06 m. The following year she won the silver medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou with 68.17 m and only had to admit defeat to her compatriot Zhang Wenxiu .

In 2013 a victory at the Asian Championships in Pune with 72.78 m was followed by fourth place at the World Championships in Moscow with 74.90 m. Years later, the victorious Russian Tatjana Lyssenko was stripped of the gold medal for doping and was awarded bronze. On March 29, 2014, she set the current (as of 2018) Asian record in Chengdu with 77.68 m. At the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech she was fourth, and at the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , she again took silver behind Zhang Wenxiu with 74.16 m. In 2015 she was fifth at the World Championships in Beijing with a width of 73.83 m in the final . In 2016 she qualified again for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she did not make a valid attempt in the final .

2017 she won at the world championships in London in the finals with a distance of 75.98 meters behind Anita Włodarczyk and above Malwina Kopron the silver medal. At the 2018 Asian Games in the Indonesian capital Jakarta , she won the silver medal for the third time with 70.86 m; this time behind her compatriot Luo Na . The following year she won the Asian Championships with a new championship record of 75.66 m. At the end of September, she won another bronze medal at the World Championships in Doha with 74.76 m, this time behind the Americans DeAnna Price and Joanna Fiodorow from Poland.

In 2014 and 2019, Wang became the Chinese hammer throw champion.

Web links

Commons : Wang Zheng  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Wang smashes Asian hammer record in China . March 29, 2014

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, Zheng is the first name.