Zhong Man

Zhong Man medal table
fencing
People's Republic of China
Olympic games
	2008 Beijing	saber

Zhong Man ( Chinese  仲 满 , Pinyin Zhòng Mǎn ; born February 28, 1983 in Nantong ) is a Chinese fencer and Olympic champion .

As an athlete, he has specialized in saber fencing. In the past few years he was able to place three podiums there in a World Cup, in 2006/2007 in Bangkok and in 2007/2008 in Algiers he was third, and in the 2007/2008 season he won the World Cup in Warsaw . At the 2007 World Championships, however, he did not reach a podium. While he finished 22nd in the singles, he finished seventh with the saber team. After winning individual silver at the Asian Championships in Nantong in 2007 , he became Asian champion in his discipline in Bangkok in 2008 . When Zhong Man started at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he surprisingly won the gold medal in the saber singles at his first Olympic participation, which also meant the first men's gold in fencing for China. In the final, he beat French Nicolas Lopez 15: 9. Zhong Man had been one of only two athletes from the top 10 in the world rankings to qualify for the semifinals. A few days later he failed in the quarterfinals with his teammates Wang Jingzhi , Zhou Hanming and Huang Yaojiang , they finally came sixth in the team competition.

In 2012, Zhong Man won bronze at the Asian Championships in Wakayama in individual, at the Olympic Games in London he reached fifteenth place in individual and sixth place with the team.

Web links

• Wanted poster from Zhong Man
• Profile on beijing2008.cn ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Man Zhong - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Zhong Man in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhong is the family name here, Man is the first name.