Zhang Jingkun

Zhang Jingkun
portrait
birthday	March 7, 1973
place of birth	Tianjin, China
size	1.78 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Libero
societies
2000-2002	Volley Cats Berlin
beach volleyball
Partner	1997 Hong Ying Ding 1998–1999 Liu Chun Ying 1999–2000 Tian Jia 2001 Liu Chun Ying
successes
1999 - World Cup participant 2000 - Olympic participant
As of May 24, 2014

Zhang Jingkun ( Chinese  張靜坤 , Pinyin Zhāng Jìngkūn , born March 7, 1973 in Tianjin ) is a Chinese beach volleyball and volleyball player .

Career Beach

Zhang Jingkun began her beach career in 1997 at the Open Tournament in Osaka alongside Hong Ying Ding . The following year she formed a new duo with Liu Chun Ying . As the best placements on the World Tour, the duo reached two 13th places in 1998 in Salvador da Bahia and 1999 in Dalian . At the 1999 World Cup in Marseille , the two Chinese women did not get past 41st place. At the last open tournament of the year, again in Salvador de Bahia, Zhang Jingkun competed with Tian Jia for the first time . In 2000, the new duo competed at the Grand Slam in Chicago, among others . Then there were top ten placements at the open tournaments in Berlin (ninth) and Dalian (seventh). The greatest success was the qualification for the Olympic Games in Sydney . There the Chinese lost to the German duo Schmidt / Staub in the first round ; in the subsequent losing round they were eliminated against the Cuban team Larrea / Fernández . In 2001, Zhang Jingkun played again with Liu Chun Ying. The best result was a ninth place at the Maoming Open.

Career hall

Zhang Jingkun played for the German Bundesliga club Volley Cats Berlin from 2000 to 2002 . Here Libera was also represented in the rankings of German volleyball .

Web links

• Zhang Jingkun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Ranking lists 2001 (PDF file; 440 KB)
• Ranking lists 2002 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 103 KB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Does cat Zhang cling to USC girls? Berliner Kurier , December 2, 2000, accessed on May 24, 2014 . 

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