Zhou Feng

Zhou Feng ( Chinese  周 風  /  周 风 , Pinyin Zhōu Fēng , born September 12, 1993 in Dandong , Liaoning , China ) is a Chinese wrestler . In 2015 she became vice world champion in the weight class up to 69 kg body weight and won the Asian Games in 2014 and the Asian Championships in 2015 and 2018.

Career

Zhou Feng started wrestling as a teenager. She belongs to the Liaoning wrestling club and is coached by Lu Hai. At a size of 1.75 meters, it usually wrestles in the weight class up to 69 kg, occasionally also in the heaviest weight class, which goes up to 75 kg and, since 2018, up to 76 kg.

She earned her first international success in 2011 when she won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in the weight class up to 72 kg in Bucharest. In the semifinals she lost at this championship against Natalja Vitalyevna Vorobyova from Russia, which she met again and again in decisive fights in her further career. In 2012, Zhou Feng became Junior World Champion in Pattaya in the same weight class, defeating Frenchwoman Cynthia Vanessa Vescan in the final.

In April 2014 she finished 2nd at the Asian Championships in Almaty in the weight class up to 75 kg behind Güzal Manjurowa from Kazakhstan. In 2014 it was also used for the first time at the World Cup for Women. She started in Tashkent in the weight class up to 69 kg. After a fight she won in Almaty in the quarterfinals on Natalja Vorobjowa and lost against them on points. Since Natalja Vorobjowa surprisingly did not reach the final, Zhou Feng was eliminated and only came in 11th place. Less than a month later she had a great success at the Asian Games in Incheon, because she won the title there and beat Güzal Manjurowa in the final.

In 2015 Zhou Feng became the first Asian champion in the weight class up to 69 kg in Doha. At the World Championships this year in Las Vegas she started in the same weight class and defeated there u. a. also Sara Doshō from Japan. She was in the final, in which she lost again to Natalia Vorobjowa. She became runner-up world champion.

The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro turned out to be a great disappointment for Zhou Feng . There she lost her first fight against Aline Focken from Germany in the weight class up to 69 kg . Since this did not reach the final, she was eliminated and only came in 12th place.

At the 2017 Asian Championships in New Delhi, Zhou Feng lost in the semifinals in the weight class up to 69 kg against the 2016 Olympic champion Sara Dosho and came in third. In February 2018, however, she was again Asian champion in the weight class up to 68 kg body weight in Bishkek. In the same weight class, she also represented the Chinese colors at the Team World Cup in Takasaki, Japan, in mid-March 2018. She defeated there in the preliminary rounds Tumentsetseg Sharkhuu from Mongolia and Alexandra Anghel from Romania. In the final, which China narrowly lost to Japan with 4-6 victories, she won over Miwa Morikawa.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2011	3.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Bucharest	up to 72 kg	after victories over Epp Mae, Estonia and Justina di Stasio, Canada, a defeat against Natalja Vorobjowa, Russia and a victory over Zsanett Nemeth, Hungary
2012	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Pattaya	up to 72 kg	before Cynthia Vanessa Vescan, France, Gamze Durukan, Turkey and Galina Levtschenko, Belarus
2013	1.	Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs	up to 67 kg	before Veronica Carlson, USA, Stacie Anaka and Megan Buydens, both Canada
2014	3.	Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs	up to 69 kg	behind Randi Miller and Elena Piroschkowa , both USA
2014	2.	Asian Championship in Almaty	up to 75 kg	behind Gousel Manjurowa, Kazakhstan, ahead of Hiroe Minagawa, Japan and Gulmira Isamatowa, Uzbekistan
2014	11.	World Cup in Tashkent	up to 69 kg	after a victory over Karine Schadojan, Armenia and a defeat against Natalja Vorobjowa
2014	1.	Asian Games in Incheon	up to 75 kg	in front of Gousel Manjurowa, Hwang Eenju, South Korea and Burmaa Ochirbat, Mongolia
2015	1.	Klippan Lady Open	up to 69 kg	before Sue Clara Vazquez, Argentina, Yan Hong, China and Alla Cherkassova , Ukraine
2015	1.	Asian Championship in Doha	up to 69 kg	in front of Elmira Sydzykowa, Kazakhstan, Wen Ling, Taiwan and Kayoko Kudo, Japan
2015	1.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	up to 69 kg	in front of Tamira Mensah-Stock, USA, Leah Ferguson Callahan, Canada and Elena Piroschkowa
2015	2.	World Cup in Las Vegas	up to 69 kg	after victories over Martina Kuenz , Austria, Danuta Damikaitite, Lithuania, Sara Dosho, Japan and Nasanburmaa Ochirbat, Mongolia and a defeat against Natalja Vorobjowa
2015	10.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	up to 69 kg	Winner: Natalja Vorobjowa ahead of Jenny Fransson , Sweden and Aline Focken, Germany
2016	1.	UWW test tournament in Rio de Janeiro	up to 69 kg	in front of Dorothy Yeats, Canada, Natalja Vorobjowa and Tamira Mensah-Stock
2016	12.	OS in Rio de Janeiro	up to 69 kg	after a loss to Aline Focken
2017	3.	Asian Championship in New Delhi	up to 69 kg	behind Sara Doshō and Divya Kakran, India
2017	1.	Asia indoor GAMes in Ashgabat	up to 69 kg	in front of Elmira Sydzykowa, Navjot Kaur, India and Meerim Schumanasarowa, Kyrgyzstan
2018	1.	Asian Championship in Bishkek	up to 68 kg	in front of Tumenstetseg Sharkhuu, Mongolia, Meerim Schumanasarowa and Inna Kasjulina, Kazakhstan

literature

Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Zhou Feng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Zhou Feng at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Report from the 2015 World Cup with photo by Zhou Feng

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