Fu Haitao

Fu Haitao
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  China
East Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tianjin Triple jump
Asian Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Hangzhou Triple jump

Fu Haitao (Chinese: 傅海涛; born 13 January 1993) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. Fu was the gold medallist at the 2013 East Asian Games and the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2014. He also finished in the top two at the 2010 Youth Olympics and the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. His personal best is 16.56 m (54 ft 3+3⁄4 in).

Career

Born in Fujian,[1] he competed in jumping events in his youth and set bests of 7.03 m (23 ft 3⁄4 in) and 15.05 m (49 ft 4+1⁄2 in) in the long and triple jump to finish in the top two at the 2008 Chinese High School Championships. He cleared sixteen metres in the triple jump for the first time in 2009, en route to winning the Chinese High School Games title.[2] In his first international competition, he cleared a personal best of 16.14 m (52 ft 11+1⁄4 in) to take second place at the 2010 Youth Olympics, finishing behind Cuban Radame Fabar.[3] He ended that year having improved his best mark to 16.33 m (53 ft 6+3⁄4 in).[4]

He competed only nationally in 2011 and he competed a long/triple jump double at the Chinese junior championships. His best performances came at the Chinese City Games, where he cleared 7.89 m (25 ft 10+1⁄2 in) to take bronze in the long jump and leaped 16.56 m (54 ft 3+3⁄4 in) to win the triple jump title – the latter mark ranked him third in the world that year among junior athletes.[5][6] The following year he failed to improve upon these marks, but his best jump of the year at 16.38 m (53 ft 8+3⁄4 in) was enough to win the gold medal at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships.[7][8] He was among the top qualifiers at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but managed only seventh place in the final.[9]

Fu took his first senior medals in 2013, first a triple jump bronze medal at the 12th National Games of China,[10] then a gold medal at the 2013 East Asian Games, where he defeated the reigning Asian champion Cao Shuo.[11] He began the next year by winning his first continental title, taking the gold at the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Hangzhou with an indoor best of 16.21 m (53 ft 2 in).[12]

References

  1. ^ 图文：全运男子三级跳远决赛 傅海涛速度飞快 (in Chinese). Sports Sohu (2013-09-10). Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  2. ^ Fu Haitao. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  3. ^ Youth Olympics 2010 Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History (2013-01-19). Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  4. ^ Haitao Fu. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  5. ^ Jalava, Mirko (2011-10-23). World youth medallists excel at Chinese City Games in Nanchang - Days 1-3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  6. ^ Jalava, Mirko (2011-10-25). Asian junior men's Shot Put record in Nanchang as Chinese City Games Conclude. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  7. ^ Asian Junior Championships 2012 Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  8. ^ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2012-06-13). Ashraf steals the show in Asian Juniors with 80.85m world junior hammer lead. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  9. ^ World Junior Championships 2012 Archived October 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. WJAH. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  10. ^ 田径 Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese). Liaoning2013. Retrieved on 2013-09-17.
  11. ^ East Asian Games Athletics Medals. Ultra View Directory. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  12. ^ Jalava, Mirko (2014-02-16). Barshim over 2.36m at the Asian Indoor Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.