Zhang Chengye

Zhang Chengye
Zhang Chengye during the Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Östersund.
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	May 20, 1982
place of birth	Jilin ,  People's Republic of China
size	175 cm
Weight	71 kg
job	soldier
Career
discipline	Biathlon cross-country skiing
society	People's Liberation Army
National squad	since 2003
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Asian Games Medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
Winter Asian Games silver 2003 Owani CC 30 km F bronze 2003 Owani CC 15 km F gold 2007 Changchun Biathlon relay silver 2007 Changchun Biathlon singles bronze 2011 Almaty Biathlon relay
Placements in the biathlon world cup World Cup debut 2004 Overall World Cup 21st ( 2007/08 ) Individual World Cup 12. ( 2004/05 ) Sprint World Cup 21st ( 2004/05 ) Pursuit World Cup 19th ( 2007/08 ) Mass start world cup 19th ( 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 1 0

Zhang Chengye ( Chinese  张 成 烨 , Pinyin Zhāng Chéngyè , born May 20, 1982 in Jilin ) is a former Chinese biathlete and cross-country skier .

Career

biathlon

Zhang Chengye is from Tonghua and started biathlon as a student in 2002 . He has been part of the Chinese national team since 2003 and competes for the Chinese Biathlon Association . He made his World Cup debut in 2004 in Pokljuka . Shortly afterwards he was 16th in the sprint in Antholz for the first time in the points. In the following year he achieved his best individual placement as second in the individual in the same place. At the Winter Asian Games 2007 he won gold in the relay and silver in the individual race. His best season was 2007/08 . He was in the top ten five times, and at the end of the season Zhang finished 21st in the overall World Cup ranking. In addition, he finished 19th overall in the mass start and pursuit World Cup.

After bad placements at the World Championships in Oberhof in 2004, he was able to achieve a 16th place in the individual at the World Championships in Hochfilzen the following year . At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he competed in singles (50th), sprint (18th) and in pursuit (36th). The Biathlon World Championships 2007 and 2008 did not bring the hoped-for results, Zhang never achieved a placement in the top 25. In Vancouver, Zhang Chengye competed again at the Olympics and achieved his best result with 19th place in the individual.

Two years later he started in Ruhpolding at the Biathlon World Championships in 2012 , but did not get above 86th in the sprint and 98th in the individual. With the season he landed on a weak 24th place. After the end of the 2011/12 season, he ended his active biathlon career. A year earlier he was able to win bronze with the relay at the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Cross-country skiing

Between 2003 and 2006, Zhang competed in international cross-country skiing races. He made his international debut at the 2003 Asian Winter Games , where he won bronze over 15 km and silver over 30 km freestyle. At the Winter Universiade 2005 in Innsbruck he started over the 10 km distance, but did not reach the goal. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he started in the sprint as well as with the relay, but could only run back places.

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place	1					1
3rd place
Top 10	1	3	2	3	1	10
Scoring	8th	20th	17th	6th	17th	68
Starts	24	54	28	6th	18th	130
Status: after the 2010/2011 season

Web links

Commons : Chengye Zhang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ZHANG CHENGYE in the database of the IBU (English)
• Zhang Chengye in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Zhang Chengye in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )