Xie Zhenye
Xie Zhenye at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||||||
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August 17, 1993 Shaoxing County, Zhejiang province, China. |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 130 lb (59 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||
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 China
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| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 200 metres | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 20.44 s | ||||||||||||||||||
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Xie Zhenye (Chinese: 谢震业; pinyin: Xiè Zhènyè, born August 17, 1993) is a Chinese track and field sprint athlete who competes in the 200-meter dash events. He is the Chinese record holder for the 200 m outdoors and represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
He won the gold medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. In 2011 he set a new 100 metres personal best of 10.36 seconds and a 200 m best of 20.79 seconds. He won the 200 m title at the Chinese City Games that year.
Xie took 100 m silver (behind Hassan Taftian) and 200 m gold at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. He was also a finalist in both events at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He was China's representative in the 200 m at the 2012 London Olympics but did not progress beyond the heats. He equalled the Chinese record for that event with a run of 20.54 seconds and closed his year with a win at the Chinese Athletics Championships.
In his opening meeting of 2013 he ran a 60 metres best of 6.66 seconds and broke the Chinese indoor record in the 200 m, running 20.93 seconds.
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