Zhang Linli
Zhang Linli ( Chinese 張 林麗 / 张 林丽 , Pinyin Zhāng Línlì ; born March 6, 1973 ) is a former Chinese long-distance runner .
In 1992 she became Junior World Champion over 3000 m .
The following year, she was third in the Chinese Marathon Championships and won silver in the 3000m at the East Asian Games . Over this distance she was part of a purely Chinese podium as runner-up at the World Championships in Stuttgart : Gold went to Qu Yunxia , bronze to Zhang Lirong . Another silver medal over 3000 m followed at the Asian Athletics Championships .
At the Chinese national games she set a world record shortly afterwards with 8: 22.06 minutes, which was undercut by Wang Junxia by almost ten seconds (8: 12.19 m) in the second heat . In the final, Zhang took third place in 8: 16.50 minutes behind Wang Junxia and Qu Yunxia, who ran times of 8: 06.11 min and 8: 12.18 min, respectively, which no other athlete has even managed to date has come close.
At the 1993 IAAF World Cup marathon , which took place as part of the San Sebastián Marathon , Chinese women again took all the podium places: Wang Junxia won ahead of Zhang Linli and Zhang Lirong.
In 1994, Zhang Linli won gold over 3000 m at the Asian Games and came fourth in the Beijing Marathon , but achieved significantly slower times (8: 52.97 min or 2:32:15 h) than in the previous year. At the end of the year, the training group led by the controversial coach Ma Junren , which included Zhang and the other top Chinese runners, fell apart . Ma was charged with embezzling prize money and physically abusing the athletes. These allegations were corroborated in a 1997 book by journalist Zhao Yu. Another shadow fell on the achievements of “Mas Army” in 2000 when six athletes he supervised were removed from the roster for the Sydney Olympics for the use of erythropoietin (EPO) .
Personal bests
- 1500 m : 3: 57.46 min, September 11, 1993, Beijing
- 3000 m : 8: 16.50 min, September 13, 1993, Beijing
- 5000 m : 15: 35.70 min, September 26, 1991, Tangshan
- 10,000 m : 31: 16.28 min, September 8, 1993, Beijing
- Marathon : 2:24:42 h, April 4, 1993, Tianjin
Web links
- Zhang Linli in the database of World Athletics (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Robert Katzenbeisser: When are the Chinese coming? In: ÖLV news. No. 5, November 8, 2008, p. 8 ( PDF; 747 KB )
- ↑ Duncan Mackay: Hopes raised for war on drugs as Ma's army beats Olympic retreat . In: The Guardian . September 7, 2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zhang, Linli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 张, 林丽; Zhāng, Línlì |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1973 |