Wenxiu Zhang

Zhang Wenxiu

Zhang Wenxiu after winning silver medal at Rio 2016
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(1986-03-22) 22 March 1986 (age 30) Liaoning, China
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight	113 kg (249 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	77.33 m (2014)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  China Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Hammer throw 2008 Beijing Hammer throw World Championships 2015 Beijing Hammer throw 2007 Osaka Hammer throw 2011 Daegu Hammer throw 2013 Moscow Hammer throw Asian Championships 2005 Incheon Hammer 2009 Guangzhou Hammer Asian Games 2006 Doha Hammer throw 2010 Guangzhou Hammer throw 2014 Incheon Hammer throw

Zhang Wenxiu (simplified Chinese: 张文秀; traditional Chinese: 張文秀; pinyin: Zhāng Wénxiù, born 22 March 1986 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a Chinese female hammer thrower.

She won the 2005 Asian Championships and 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships, seventh at the 2004 Olympics, fifth at the 2005 World Championships and fourth at the 2006 World Cup. She then won bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games.

She also holds the world junior record with 73.24 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Changsha.

At 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, she originally won the gold medal but was stripped of it after testing positive for the prohibited substance zeranol. Zhang was reinstated after successfully appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which accepted her explanation that the zeranol came from contaminated food.