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Chinese sprinter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tang Xingqiang (Chinese: 汤星强; born 11 August 1995) is a Chinese track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Chinese |
Born | Zhouning County, Fujian, China | August 11, 1995
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb)[1] |
Sport | |
Sport | Track and field |
Event | 100 metres |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 100 m: 10.22 (2021) |
He made his international senior debut at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, competing in the 200 metres and reaching the semi-finals.[2]
At the 2016 Rio Olympics he led off a Chinese 4 × 100 metres relay quartet including Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, and Zhang Peimeng. The team set an Asian record of 37.82 seconds in qualifying and finished fourth in the final. The record was quickly broken by Japan in the following relay heat,[3][4] but it remains the Chinese record.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2015 | Asian Championships | Wuhan, China | 11th (sf) | 200 m | 21.06 |
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.90 |
2017 | IAAF World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.22 |
6th | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:22.91 | |||
Asian Championships | Bhubaneswar, India | 8th (sf) | 100 m | 10.431 | |
1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.38 | |||
2020 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.79 =NR |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 12th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.83 |
1Disqualified in the final
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