Zhou Xia
Personal information
Nationality China
Born1998 or 1999 (age 24–25)
Medal record
Women's athletics T35
Representing  China
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T35
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m T35
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 100 m T35
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 200 m T35
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 Paris100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2023 Paris200 m T35
Silver medal – second place2017 London100 m T35
Silver medal – second place2017 London200 m T35
Asian Para Games
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta 100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta200 m T35
Gold medal – first place2022 Hangzhou100 m T35
Gold medal – first place2022 Hangzhou200 m T35

Zhou Xia (born 1998 or 1999) 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. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals in the T35 100m race and T35 200m, setting a new world record in both event.[1][2]

Career

Zhou competed at 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 13.66s.[3] She also won gold in the T35 200 m event with a world record time of 28.22s.[4]

Zhou competed in the IPC Athletics World Championships in London in 2014. She won the silver medal in both the 100 m and 200 m events, behind Isis Holt.[5][6]

Zhou competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. She won the T35 100 m in a world record time of 13.00s. She also won the T35 200 m in a world record time of 27.17s.

References

  1. ↑ "ZHOU Xia". Tokyo 2020.
  2. ↑ "Athletics – Paralympic Records". Tokyo 2020.
  3. ↑ "Rio 2016: The new teens on the block". AW. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  4. ↑ Lindsay, Anna; Chowdhury, Saj (2016-09-18). "GB ensure best medal haul since 1988". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  5. ↑ "Maria Lyle wins another World Championships medal". East Lothian Courier. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  6. ↑ "Results – Women's 200m T35 Final" (PDF). IPC. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  • Xia Zhou at International Paralympic Committee
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