Zhang Li (javelin thrower, 1989)

Zhang Li
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	17th January 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Jiangxi , China
size	170 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	65.47 m (October 1, 2014 in Incheon )
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 1 × 1 × 1 × East Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Military world games 3 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Games gold Incheon 2014 65.47 m  East Asian Games silver Hong Kong 2009 58.12 m Military world games gold Hyderabad 2007 59.96 m gold Mungyeon 2015 62.95 m gold Wuhan 2019 63.06 m  Youth World Championships gold Marrakech 2005 56.66 m
last change: January 23, 2020

Zhang Li ( Chinese  張 莉  /  张 莉 , Pinyin Zhāng Lì; born January 17, 1989 in Jiangxi ) is a Chinese javelin thrower .

Athletic career

Zhang Li gained her first international experience in 2005 at the Youth World Championships in Marrakech , where she won the gold medal with a width of 56.66 m. She then took part in the Asian Games in Incheon for the first time , where she finished fifth with 54.11 m. The following year she reached fourth place at the Junior World Championships in Beijing with a throw of 57.52 m and in 2007 she won the Military World Games in Hyderabad with 59.96 m. At the Athletics Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2008 she finished fourth with 56.68 m and this year she also qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing, where she came ninth with 56.14 m in the final . In 2009 she won the silver medal at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong with a width of 58.12 m and only had to admit defeat to her compatriot Liu Chunhua .

In 2012 she again took part in the Olympic Games in London , but this time retired with 58.35 m in qualification , as was the case at the World Championships in Moscow the following year with 60.16 m. Before that, she finished fifth at the Asian Championships in Pune with 53.85 m. In 2014 she was sixth at the Continental Cup in Marrakech with 59.27 m and won the Asian Games in Incheon with her personal best of 65.47 m. The following year she again took part in the World Championships in Beijing, but retired again with 61.80 m in qualification before she won the gold medal for the second time at the Military World Games in Mungyeon, South Korea, with 62.95 m. She also won the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan with 63.06 m.

Web links

• Zhang Li in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Zhang Li in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Records and rules broken in 800m finals at Asian Games ( English ) World Athletics. October 1, 2014. Accessed January 23, 2020.

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, Li is the first name.