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Name:Fu Mingxia
Gender:F
Birth Date:August 16, 1978
Birth Place:Hubei Province
Sport:Diving |
Personal Best:
Gold Medal of Platform, 1992 Olympic Games, 1996 Olympic Games, 2000 Olympic Games.
Sports Career:
Took up gymnastics in Wuhan Spare-time Sports School in 1985. Fu switched to diving before being selected as a member of the Hubei provincial diving team in 1987. Stood 1.37m and aged 12, she won the platform event of group B in the National Junior Competition in 1990. Following that, she was selected for intensified training by the national team.
High Performances:
- 1990 US International Invitational
- 1st platform
- 1990 Canada International Open
- 2nd platform
- 1990 US International Open
- 1st platform
- 1990 Jinan International Open
- 3rd platform
- 1990 US Goodwill Games
- 1st platform (443.04 pts, youngest titlist in Games history)
- 1990 Beijing Asian Games
- 3rd platform
- 1991 Perth World Swimming Championships
- 1st (426.50 pts, going down in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest world champion in swimming history)
- 1991 China International Open
- 2nd springboard, 3rd platform
- 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games
- 1st platform (winning China's third Olympic platform gold in succession)
- 1993 World Cup
- 1st team & mixed team
- 3rd platform,
- 1994 Rome World Swimming Championships
- 1st platform
- 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games га
- 2nd springboard
- 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games
- 1st springboard & platform
- 2000 Sydney Olympic Games
- 1st springboard
Honors:
Reputed as "Diving Queen"
1990-1991 - Twice named World Best Woman Platform Diver by US magazine Swimming World.
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