Zhang Meixia

Zhang Meixia
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	20th January 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	China
size	165 cm
Weight	44 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
last change: October 5th, 2018

Zhang Meixia (born January 20, 1991 ) is a Chinese long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Zhang Meixia gained her first international experience at the 2014 Half Marathon World Championships in Copenhagen , where she finished 50th in 1:14:24 h. At the end of September, she took part in the 1500-meter run for the first time in the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , where she was eleventh. The following year, she reached fifth place in the 10,000 meter run at the Asian Championships in Wuhan and did not finish at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju . She also started in the half marathon and came in tenth there. 2018 she won the Tokyo Marathon in a personal best of 2:33:02 h tenth place and was at the Asian Games in Jakarta in the marathon in 2:39:41 h Seventh.

She graduated from Tianjin Pedagogical University .

Personal best

• 1500 meters: 4: 32.05 min, May 11, 2015 in Taiyuan
• 5000 meters: 15: 52.74 min, September 7, 2013 in Shenyang
• 10,000 meters: 32: 18.86 min, September 11, 2013 in Shenyang
• Half marathon: 1:13:47 h, March 9, 2014 in Verbania
• Marathon: 2:32:01 h, December 8, 2019 in Guangzhou

Web links

• Zhang Meixia in the database of World Athletics (English)

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, Meixia is the first name.