Zhang Wenxiu

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zhang Wenxiu

Zhang Wenxiu ( Chinese  张文秀 , Pinyin Zhāng Wénxiù ; born March 22, 1986 in Liaoning ) is a Chinese hammer thrower .

At the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton , she was tenth, at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens seventh, at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki she was fifth. She won gold medals at the 2005 Asian Cup and the 2006 Asian Games . At the World Cup 2006 in Athens she reached fourth place.

She celebrated her greatest success so far at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka . With a width of 74.39 meters, she won the bronze medal behind the German Betty Heidler and the Cuban Yipsi Moreno . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she initially took third place with 74.32 meters, behind the doping offender Aksana Mjankowa from Belarus and Moreno , who was only caught in 2016 . Meanwhile, Myankova was stripped of the gold medal.

At the 2011 World Championships she threw 75.03 meters and won the bronze medal. In London , she finished fourth at the 2012 Olympic Games . Originally, the Chinese finished the competition in bronze. However, since a litter of the German Betty Heidler was measured too short, she subsequently fell back to the "sheet metal" rank, later she was recognized with the bronze medal.

At the 2014 Asian Games , Zhang Wenxiu tested positive for the doping agent zeranol . She had to return the gold medal she had won. However, in May 2015 she was rehabilitated because the finding was due to contaminated food. She then won the silver medal at the world championships in her own country in Beijing .

Zhang's personal best is 76.99 meters.

Zhang Wenxiu is 1.81 m tall and has a competition weight of 87 kg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doping at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012: a new medal table every day . www.eurosport.de from November 23, 2016; Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ HDsports.at: Referee mistake almost costs German Heidler medal , August 10, 2012
  3. ↑ Chinese hammer thrower Zhang convicted of doping rp-online.de October 3, 2014
  4. ^ Athletes in the doping trap deutschlandfunk.de August 16, 2015

Web links

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, Wenxiu is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Zhang, Wenxiu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 张文秀
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese hammer thrower
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Liaoning