Wu Zhiqiang

Wu Zhiqiang
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	10th April 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	China
size	178 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter run
Best performance	10.17 s
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Championships gold Wuhan 2015 4 × 100 m bronze Doha 2019 100 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Wu Zhiqiang (born April 10, 1994 ) is a Chinese sprinter who specializes primarily in the 100-meter run .

Athletic career

Wu Zhiqiang gained his first international experience at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan , where he was eliminated in the quarter-finals over 100 meters with 10.72 seconds. He also finished fifth with the Chinese 4 x 100 meter relay in 39.54 s. At the IAAF World Relays 2015 in the Bahamas , he was disqualified with the 4-by-200-meter relay in the preliminary round, while he was eliminated in the preliminary round with the 4-by-100-meter relay in 57.98 s. At the Asian Championships in Wuhan , he contributed to winning the gold medal for the Chinese team through his work in the preliminary run. Two years later he took the relay at the World Championships in London , where he finished fourth with 38.34 s in the final . In 2018 he finished seventh in the 60-meter run at the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran in 6.84 s . The following year he won at the Asian Championships in Doha with a new record of 10.18 s, the bronze medal behind the Japanese Yoshihide Kiryu and Lalu Muhammad Zohri from Indonesia. He was also disqualified in the final with the Chinese relay. He then came fourth at the World Relays in Yokohama in 38.16 s and at the World Championships in Doha he reached sixth place in the final in 38.07 s.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.17 s (+2.0 m / s), June 7, 2019 in Chongqing
  • 60 meters (hall): 6.66 s, March 6, 2013 in Nanjing
• 200 meters: 21.12 s (+0.1 m / s), May 13, 2015 in Taiyuan
  • 200 meters (hall): 21.95 s, March 16, 2015 in Beijing

Web links

• Wu Zhiqiang in the database of World Athletics (English)

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