Yin Qiao

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

Yin Qiao ( Chinese  殷 俏 , Pinyin Yīn Qiǎo ; born July 2, 1985 in Jilin ) is a Chinese biathlete .

Yin has been practicing biathlon since 1999. The sports soldier lives in Dalian and is trained by Klaus Siebert and Liang Lu. She starts for the Chinese Biathlon Association and has been part of the Chinese national team since 2003. She made her Biathlon World Cup debut in 2004 in a sprint (41st) in Lake Placid . At the start of the 2004/05 season in Beitostølen she reached ninth place in the sprint. She was one place better at the 2006 mass start in Pokljuka and at the 2006 individual race in Hochfilzen . Her best placement with the relay was a sixth place in 2005 in Oberhof .

At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , she was used in singles (31st). At the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen she started in the sprint (14th), pursuit (39th), the mass start (26th) and in the relay (11th).

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place					2	2
Top 10	1	1		1	11	14th
Scoring	3	5	3	5	12	28
Starts	11	25th	17th	5	12	70
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Yin Qiao in the IBU database (English)
• Yin Qiao in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )