Zhang Yingying

Zhang Yingying ( Chinese  张莹莹 , Pinyin Zhāng Yíngyíng ; born January 4, 1990 ) is a Chinese long-distance runner .

She first made a name for herself as fourth in the 2007 Xiamen Marathon . In the Beijing Marathon of the same year she finished second in 2:27:20 hours, and shortly afterwards she ran the fourth-best time of the year over 10,000 m with 31: 17.30 minutes .

One day after her 18th birthday, she won the Xiamen Marathon in 2:22:38 hours, setting a world record for women. Then she was nominated together with Zhou Chunxiu and Zhu Xiaolin for the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, but there she finally started over 5000 m , where she was eliminated in the semi-finals, and 10,000 m, where she finished 16th.

She came third in the Beijing Marathon that year. In 2009 she finished second in the Xiamen Marathon, but with 2:32:57 h was more than ten minutes above her time in the previous year, won the Yangzhou Jianzhen Half Marathon and came in 18th at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin over 10,000 m .

In 2017 he was banned for four years for violating the doping rules .

Best times

• 5000 m: 15: 06.08 min, October 31, 2007, Wuhan
• 10,000 m: 31: 17.30 min, November 2, 2007, Wuhan
• Half marathon : 1:11:01 h, April 26, 2009, Yangzhou
• Marathon: 2:22:38 h, January 5, 2008, Xiamen

Web links

• Zhang Yingying in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Focus on the Olympics: China , the sporting power , background article by Martin Beils in the Rheinische Post , January 15, 2008

Footnotes

1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: 18-year-old runs marathon in 2:22:38 hours . January 5, 2008
2. ↑ Runner's World : Yingying breaks junior world record and completes China's Olympic team . January 6, 2008
3. ↑ Nine months ban for Hanna Kasyanova  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 16th November 2017  

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, Yingying is the first name.