Xie Zhenye

Xie Zhenye
Xie Zhenye in Madrid 2017
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	17th August 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Keqiao , China
size	184 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	100- and 200-meter run
Best performance	9.97 s; 19.88 s
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 2 × 0 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver Beijing 2015 4 × 100 m  Asian Games gold Incheon 2014 4 × 100 m Asian Championships gold Pune 2013 200 m bronze Pune 2013 4 × 100 m gold Doha 2019 200 m Junior Asian Championships gold Colombo 2012 200 m silver Colombo 2012 100 m  Youth Olympic Games gold Singapore 2010 200 m
last change: November 3, 2019

Xie Zhenye ( Chinese  謝 震 業  /  谢 震 业 , Pinyin Xiè Zhènyè; born August 17, 1993 in Keqiao ) is a Chinese sprinter .

Athletic career

Xie Zhenye gained his first international experience at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore , where he won the gold medal in the 200-meter run in 21.22 seconds and was fifth in the mixed sprint relay. Two years later he also won the Junior Asian Championships in Colombo in 21.15 s over 200 meters and won the silver medal in the 100-meter run in 10.54 s. He qualified for the Junior World Championships in Barcelona , where he finished eighth over 100 meters in 10.49 s and fifth over 200 meters in 20.66 s. He also took part in the Olympic Games in London for the first time over 200 meters and was eliminated there with 20.69 s in the first round . In 2013 he won the Asian Championships over this distance and secured the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay, but again did not get past the first round at the World Championships in Moscow . At the 2014 IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas , he took third place with the 4 x 100 meter relay in the B final, while he came seventh with the 4 x 200 meter relay. In October he won the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, in the 4 x 100 meter relay and set a new national record over 200 meters with 20.74 s in the run-up, but was disqualified in the semifinals due to a false start.

At the IAAF World Relays 2015 he was disqualified with the 4 x 200 meter relay and did not make it to the finals with the 4 x 100 meter relay. Over 100 meters he finished fourth at the Asian Championships in Wuhan in 10.25 s and qualified over 200 meters again for the World Championships in Beijing , where he was disqualified in the preliminary run . In the 4 x 100 meter relay competition , he won the silver medal behind the team from Jamaica in 38.01 s. In the run-up, the Chinese quartet with the line-up Mo Youxue , Xie, Su Bingtian and Zhang Peimeng set an Asian record with 37.92 seconds. In 2016, Xie finished fourth in the 60-meter run in 6.53 s at the World Indoor Championships in Portland and qualified over 100 meters for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was eliminated in the semi- finals with 10.11 s . In addition, he came fourth with the Chinese relay in 37.90 seconds in the final . At the IAAF World Relays 2017 , he won the bronze medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay in 39.22 seconds. At the World Championships in London he reached the semi-finals over 100 meters , in which he was eliminated with 10.28 s. As with the Olympic Games, he came fourth with the relay. The following year he was fourth again at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 6.52 s.

In 2019 he won his second continental title at the Asian Championships in Doha with 20.33 s and was disqualified in the relay in the final. At the end of September he took part again in the World Championships in Doha and was eliminated in the semifinals over 100 meters with 10.14 s , while he finished seventh in the final over 200 meters in 20.14 s . He was also used in the season in advance.

In 2012, 2014 and 2015, Xie became the Chinese champion in the 200-meter run and in 2014 and 2017 also over 100 meters.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 9.97 s (+0.9 m / s), June 19, 2018 in Montreuil
• 60 meters (hall): 6.52 s, March 3, 2018 in Birmingham
• 200 meters: 19.88 s (+0.9 m / s), July 21, 2019 in London ( Asian record )
  • 200 meters (hall): 20.93 s, March 7, 2013 in Nanjing

Web links

Commons : Xie Zhenye  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mirko Jalava: Xie breaks Chinese 200m record at National Championships as domestic season closes ( English ) IAAF. October 12, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
2. ^ IAAF: Report: men's 4x100m final - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 . 29th August 2015

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