Zhang Wei (athlete)

Zhang Wei
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	22nd March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	China
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	5.66 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Championships gold Wuhan 2015 5.60 m silver Doha 2019 5.66 m Indoor Asian Championships silver Hangzhou 2012 5.40 m Junior Asian Championships gold Colombo 2012 5.35 m
last change: April 23, 2019

Zhang Wei ( Chinese  張 偉  /  张 伟 , Pinyin Zhāng Wěi; born March 22, 1994 ) is a Chinese pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Zhang Wei gained his first international experience at the Indoor Asian Championships 2012 in Hangzhou , where he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Yang Yansheng with 5.40 m . Then he won with a new championship record of 5.35 m at the Junior Asian Championships in Colombo and retired from the Junior World Championships in Barcelona ihne a crossed height in the qualification. At the World Championships in Moscow the following year, he also failed to qualify for a valid attempt. In 2015 he won the Asian Championships in Wuhan with a skipped 5.60 m and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Beijing with 5.55 m . In 2019 he won the silver medal behind the Philippine Ernest Obiena at the Asian Championships in Doha with a new personal best of 5.66 m .

In 2014, Zhang became the Chinese champion in outdoor pole vault and in 2019 indoor.

Personal best

• Pole vault: 5.66 m, April 21, 2019 in Doha
  • Pole vault (indoor): 5.62 m, February 7, 2013 in Lyon

Web links

• Zhang Wei 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, Wei is the first name.