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Personal information | |
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Born | Shanghai, China | April 1, 1963
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 70.5 kg (155 lb; 11.10 st) |
Website | [1] Overall |
Sport | |
Country | China |
Sport | Speed skating |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | High Jump: 2.39m Eberstadt, Germany June 1984[1] |
Medal record | ||
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1984 Los Angeles | High Jump |
Zhu Jianhua (simplified Chinese: 朱建华; traditional Chinese: 朱建華; pinyin: Zhū Jiànhuá; born May 29, 1963 in Shanghai) is a retired Chinese high jumper.
In Helskinki 1983, he became China's first ever male athlete to win a medal in the history of the IAAF World Championships and, in Los Angeles 1984, became China's first ever male athlete to win a medal in the history of the Olympic Games.
To date, Zhu Jianhua and Liu Xiang are still the only two Chinese male track and field athletes to win medals in the Olympic Games. Liu won the 110m hurdles gold in Athens 2004.
Career
Dominating Asian high jump in the early 1980s, he won the Asian Championships in 1981, crushing the championship record (CR) by 15 centimetres. He repeated this at the 1982 Asian Games with a jump of 2.33m, beating the previous CR by 12 cm. He retained his title in the 1986 Asian Games. His 1982 jump is an Asian Games record as of 2007, and no other athlete has jumped over 2.27 in the Games.
At the inaugural World Championships in 1983 and the 1984 Summer Olympics he competed against the world elite, finishing third on both occasions.
On June 11, 1983 Jianhua jumped 2.37 metres, setting a new world record. He would go on to reach 2.38 and even 2.39 metres, the latter on June 10, 1984. The world record stood until August 11, 1985, when Rudolf Povarnitsyn beat it by one centimeter.
Major achievements
Year | Tournament | Venue | Result | Extra |
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1981 | Asian Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | 2.30 CR |
1982 | Asian Games | New Delhi, India | 1st | 2.33 CR |
1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 3rd | |
Asian Championships | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 1st | 2.31 CR | |
1984 | Summer Olympics | Los Angeles, U.S. | 3rd | |
1986 | Asian Games | Seoul, South Korea | 1st | |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 20th |