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Dong Bin

Dong Bin
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Dong Bin at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1988-11-22) November 22, 1988 (age 28)
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country  China
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Triple jump

Dong Bin (Chinese: 董斌; born 22 November 1988) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is a two-time gold medallist at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and has a personal best of 17.58 metres.

His indoor best of 17.33 m is an Asian and Chinese indoor record. He represented China at the 2012 Olympics, came fifth at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and was a finalist at the Summer Universiade in both 2009 and 2011.

Born in Changsha, he first represented China internationally at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Beijing, where he finished eighth in his qualifying group. He made progress into the senior ranks in 2008, when finished as runner-up at the Chinese Athletics Championships with a personal best of 16.54 m. In the 2009 indoor season, he improved this to 16.89 m on the Chinese Athletics Grand Prix circuit. He represented his province (Hunan) at the 2009 National Games of China and came sixth.

His first major success in the senior ranks came at the 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, where his jump of 16.73 m was a championship record and brought him the gold medal. He set an outdoor personal best of 16.86 m that year and placed third at the national championships. He broke the Chinese indoor record in February 2011, clearing 17.01 m and matched his outdoor best in April. Dong and Li Yanxi were the Chinese entrants at that year's 2011 Asian Athletics Championships, but while Li took the silver Dong only managed fifth place with 16.36 m. Just over a week later he jumped 17.05 m, albeit wind-aided (+2.1 m/s).


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