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Zhang Shan (simplified Chinese: 张山; traditional Chinese: 張山; pinyin: Zhāng Shān; born March 23, 1968) is a Chinese sports shooter and Olympic champion.[1]
Career[edit]
Zhang Shan was born in the city of Nanchong in Sichuan province in Southwest China. She began shooting skeet at age 16. In 1989, she joined the Chinese national skeet team.[2] She won the gold medal in the Olympic Skeet Shooting event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[1] This event had been mixed, open to both men and women, since it was introduced to the olympics in 1968. Zhang Shan's 1992 gold was the first medal won by a woman in this mixed event. The International Shooting Union consequently barred women from the 1996 Atlanta games. For the 2000 Sydney games, the International Olympic committee allowed women again, but only in segregated competition. Zhang participated in the 2000 Olympic women's skeet placing 8th.[2][1] She had won the title at seventh National Game in 1993. Zhang won the title at Lonato World Shooting Championship in 2005.[2]
She won a gold medal with the Chinese team in the women's skeet (team event) at the 2007 World Shotgun Championships in Nicosia.[3] She took part in the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, where she placed 15th in individual skeet.[4] Her later achievements includes a silver medal in 2017 at the 13th Chinese National Games, at the age of 49, 25 years after her Olympic gold medal.[3]
Olympic results[edit]
| Event | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 |
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| Skeet (mixed) |  Gold150+50+23 |
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| Skeet (women) | Not held | 8th 69 | |
Records[edit]
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| Women | Teams | 214 |  China (Wei, Yu, Zhang)
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September 5, 2007 | Nicosia (CYP) | edit |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Zhang Shan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ a b c "Zhang Shan: The Woman Who Outshot the men". www.womenofchina.cn. All China Women's Federation. June 2, 2006. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ^ a b "Olympic Champ Zhang Shan: 'Shooting until Young Athletes Eliminate Me'". www.womenofchina.cn. All China Women's Federation. July 27, 2017. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
- ^ "50th ISSF World Championship Munich 2010. FINAL Results Skeet Women". issf-sports.org. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
External links[edit]
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1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men. Zhang is the only woman to have won it. |
