Xu Dongxiang

Xu Dongxiang ( Chinese 徐東香 * 15. January 1983 in Shaoxing ) is a former Chinese lightweight - rower , the 2006 world champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the lightweight double sculls was.

Athletic career

Xu Dongxiang started rowing in 1998. At the Junior World Championships in 1999, she reached eleventh place in the single . In 2002 she competed in the lightweight double sculls at the World Cup in Lucerne and finished in 14th place. In 2003 she reached fourth place with Song Xiujuan in Milan and thus an A-final in the World Cup for the first time. At the 2004 Olympics , she rowed to fifth place with Li Qian . In 2005 she finished second at the World Cup in Eton with Chen Aina . A year later, Xu Dongxiang started in two boat classes at the World Cup in Munich: She took third place in the lightweight single and won together with Yu Hua in the lightweight double scull. At the World Cup in Poznan in 2006 she won with Yan Shimin . Xu Dongxiang and Yan Shimin also won the title at the 2006 World Championships in Eton . A year later, Xu Dongxiang and Chen Haixia finished sixth at the 2007 World Championships in Munich . In 2008 Xu Dongxiang and Yu Hua won the World Cup in Lucerne. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Xu and Yu finished fifth in front of their home crowd. In 2009, Xu Dongxiang competed with Yan Shimin at the World Cup in Munich and took fifth place.

Xu only started again in the World Cup in 2012, in Belgrade she took third place with Huang Wenyi , and they both won in Lucerne. At the 2012 Olympic Games , the two of them reached the finals with victories in the preliminary and semi-finals, where the British Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland won , over two and a half seconds behind the two Chinese won the silver medal ahead of the Greek two. At her last World Cup start in Eton in 2013, Xu and Pan Feihong finished third in the double sculls without weight restriction.

Web links

• Xu Dongxiang at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Xu Dongxiang in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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