Zhong Qixin
.jpg) Qixin in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 April 1989 Quannan County, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Competition climbing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Speed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zhong Qixin (born 7 April 1989) is a Chinese former competition speed climber. He is a four-time winner of the IFSC World Championships, taking four consecutive wins between 2007 and 2012. He also won the overall title of the 2015 World Cup.[1] In August 2011, he set the world speed climbing record in 6.26 seconds, which stood until October 2012, when it was broken by Evgenii Vaitcekhovskii.[2]
His 13th and final World Cup victory came in October 2019 in Xiamen, where he missed the world record held by Reza Alipour by just one hundredth of a second with a time of 5.48 seconds.[3] After retiring in 2021, Zhong took over the position as head coach of the Chinese national speed climbing team.
He is married and is the father of twin daughters.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2015: M E N speed".
- ↑ World record in speed climbing 2011 (6.26 seconds) HD. Jan Kříž. 2011-07-29. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2018-02-15 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Gold for China and a New World Record". IFSC. 19 October 2019.
- ↑ "世界冠军，去不了东京奥运会". 体娱 INSIGHT视界 (in Chinese). 24 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Qixin Zhong at World Climbing
- Qixin Zhong at the World Games
- Qixin Zhong at InterSportStats
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- 1989 births
- People from Ganzhou
- Chinese rock climbers
- Living people
- Sport climbers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for China
- Asian Games medalists in sport climbing
- World Games medalists in sport climbing
- Medalists at the 2013 World Games
- Medalists at the 2009 World Games
- World Games gold medalists for China
- 21st-century Chinese sportsmen
- IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
- IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
- Speed climbers
- Chinese competition climbers