Xiong Ni

Xiong Ni
Personal information
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Discipline (s) :	High diving, artificial diving, synchronized diving
Society:	Hu Nan
Birthday:	January 24, 1974
Place of birth:	Changsha
Size:	166 cm
Weight:	55 kg

Xiong Ni ( Chinese  熊倪 , Pinyin Xióng Ní ; born January 24, 1974 in Changsha , Hunan ) is a former Chinese diver .

At the age of eight, he was nominated for the selection of the Hunan Province in 1982. Four years later in 1986 he was selected for the national training group. In the same year he won the Chinese championship on the 1-meter, 3-meter and 5-meter board and was also first in the overall standings. Two years later, when he was only 14, he was part of the Chinese squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . Surprisingly, he was able to win the silver medal in high diving. At the 1991 World Championships in Perth , he also won the silver medal in jumping from the 3-meter board. A year later he won the bronze medal in diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . A short time later he began to specialize in jumping from the 3-meter board. For the first time he was able to win the gold medal in this discipline at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . In 1997, Xiong Ni first announced his intention to retire from active sports, but returned to active sports only a year later. Three years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , he again won the gold medal in jumping from the 3-meter board and was also able to win the gold medal in synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board. In 2001 he finally resigned from active sports.

In 1989 he was named the best water diver in the world by Swimming World Magazine . In 2006 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Xiong Ni in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Profile on Beijing2008.cn ( Memento from August 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Article on ChinaCulture.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Xiong Ni in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on April 29
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Xiong Ni at the Chinese Olympic Committee. en.olympic.cn, accessed April 29, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Xiong Ni in the International Swimming Hall of Fame , accessed on April 29, 2009

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