Zhou Xia
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Zhou Xia is a Chinese para-athlete who competes in sprint events. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in the T35 100 m and 200 m races.
Career
Zhou competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she was 17 years old. She won the T35 100 m (ahead of Australia's Isis Holt and Britain's Maria Lyle) and set a Paralympics record for the event with a time of 13.66 s.[1] She also won gold in the T35 200 m event with a world record time of 28.22 s.[2]
Zhou competed in the IPC Athletics World Championships in London the following year. She won the silver medal in both the 100 m and 200 m events, behind Holt.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Rio 2016: The new teens on the block". AW. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Lindsay, Anna; Chowdhury, Saj (2016-09-18). "GB ensure best medal haul since 1988". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Maria Lyle wins another World Championships medal". East Lothian Courier. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Results - Women's 200m T35 Final" (pdf). IPC. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
External links
- Xia Zhou at International Paralympic Committee
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