Xiong Zi

Xiong Zi
portrait
birthday	November 8, 1976
place of birth	Sichuan, China
size	1.81 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Libero
societies
2004 - 2006	Red ravens Vilsbiburg
National team
2002	A national team
successes
2002 - 2nd place World Grand Prix 2002 - 4th place World Cup in Germany 2002 - Winner of the Asian Games in South Korea 2005 - German runner-up in 2006 - German runner-up
beach volleyball
Partner	1997 - 2001 Chi Rong
successes
1999 - World Cup participant 2000 - Olympic participant 2001 - World Cup participant
As of May 27, 2014

Xiong Zi ( Chinese  熊 姿 , Pinyin Xióng Zī , born November 8, 1976 in Sichuan ) is a Chinese volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career Beach

Xiong Zi played her first international tournaments in 1997 with Chi Rong . In 1998, the duo came in 17th place four times in open tournaments. Xiong Zi and Chi Rong achieved the same result at the 1999 World Championships in Marseille . In the same year they came seventh at the Dalian Open for the first time in the top ten. In 2000 they finished 13th at the Grand Slam in Chicago and seventh at the Berlin Open. In Dalian, they came in third.

They then took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney . After an opening defeat against the Portuguese Maria José / Cristina Pereira, they first won in the losing round against the Mexican duo Galindo / Gaxiola , before they lost to the Italians Gattelli / Perrotta . Nevertheless, they came as the best loser in the last sixteen, in which they had no chance against the later Olympic champions Cook / Pottharst .

In 2001 the two Chinese women established themselves in the top ten of the World Tour. They reached seventh places at the Gran Canaria Open and the Grand Slam in Marseille and fourth place in Maoming . At the 2001 World Cup in Klagenfurt , they came as group winners in the first main round, which they won against the Austrians Swoboda / Mellitzer . In the second round they defeated the US duo Walsh / May before they were stopped in the quarter-finals by the Brazilians Sandra Pires / Minello and finished the tournament in fifth place.

Career hall

Xiong Zi played in the Chinese national team in 2002 and finished second at the World Grand Prix and fourth at the World Cup in Germany . She also won the Asian Games in South Korea . In 2004 she was signed by the German Bundesliga club Rote Raben Vilsbiburg . Here Libera was German runner-up in 2005 and 2006 and was always at the top of the German volleyball rankings .

Web links

• Xiong Zi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Profile at World of Volley (English)
• Ranking list 2005 (pdf; 80 kB)
• Ranking list 2006 (pdf; 64 kB) ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinforcements from the Far East: Red Ravens sign Zi Xiong and Rong Chi. Rote Raben Vilsbiburg , September 21, 2004, accessed on May 27, 2014 . 

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, Zi is the first name.