Zhang Di

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Zhang Di ( Chinese  张迪 ; * July 4, 1968 ) is a Chinese judoka who was third in the 1992 Olympic Games in the light middleweight division, up to 61 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.65 m tall Zhang Di won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division at the 1988 Asian Championships. In 1989 she finished seventh in the middleweight division at the World Championships . At the Asian Games in Beijing in 1990 , she defeated the Japanese Ryōko Fujimoto in the final . The following year she lost to the British Kate Howey in the quarterfinals of the World Championships in Barcelona . With two wins in the round of hope she reached the fight for a bronze medal, which she lost against the Japanese Ryōko Fujimoto.

At the Olympic premiere of women's judo in Barcelona in 1992 , Zhang Di returned to the light middleweight division after three years. In her first fight, she defeated the Brazilian Tania Ishii . In the second fight she was defeated by the South Korean Gu Hyeon-suk in the round of 16. In the hope round, the Chinese first defeated Nicola Morris from New Zealand, then the British Diane Bell , the Venezuelan Xiomara Griffith and finally the German Frauke Eickhoff in the battle for bronze , with Zhang Di winning the last three fights with a Yuko rating.

1993 Zhang Di joined the Middleweight World Championships in Hamilton . After a semi-final defeat against the South Korean Cho Min-sun , the Chinese secured a bronze medal by beating the Dutch Claudia Zwiers . At the end of her career, Zhang Di won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division at the 1994 Asian Games .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com. The statistics on judoinside.com also partly contain results of the heavyweight Zhang Ying, but these can be recognized by the weight information.
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 427
personal data
SURNAME Zhang Di
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 张迪 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese judoka
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1968