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Zhang Wenxiu
	Zhang Wenxiu after winning silver medal at Rio 2016
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	22 March 1986 (age 38); Liaoning, China
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	113 kg (249 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best	77.33 m (2014)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing China
Olympic Games
World Championships
Asian Games
Asian Championships

Zhang Wenxiu (Chinese: 张文秀; pinyin: Zhāng Wénxiù, born 22 March 1986 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a retired Chinese female hammer thrower.

Career

She won the 2005 Asian Championships and 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships, seventh at the 2004 Olympics, fifth at the 2005 World Championships and fourth at the 2006 World Cup. She then won bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games.

She also holds the world junior record with 73.24 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Changsha.^[1]

At 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, she originally won the gold medal but was stripped of it after testing positive for the prohibited substance zeranol. Zhang was reinstated after successfully appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which accepted her explanation that the zeranol came from contaminated food.^[2]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing China
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	11th	61.61 m
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	20th (q)	52.31 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	14th (q)	65.09 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	7th	72.03 m
2005	Asian Championships	Incheon, South Korea	1st	70.05 m
	East Asian Games	Macau	1st	72.23 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	4th	69.82 m
2006	World Cup	Athens, Greece	4th	71.19 m^[3]
2006	Asian Games	Doha, Qatar	1st	74.15 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	3rd	74.39 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	2nd	74.32 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	72.57 m
2009	Asian Championships	Guangzhou, China	1st	72.07 m
2010	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	2nd	73.69 m^[4]
2010	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	1st	72.84 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	3rd	75.03 m
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	3rd	76.34 m
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	2nd	75.58 m
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	1st	77.33 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	2nd	76.33 m
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2nd	76.75 m
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	4th	74.53 m