Feng Bin at the 2022 World Athletics Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Born | (1994-04-03) April 3, 1994 Penglai District, China |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)1 |
| Weight | 95 kg (209 lb)1 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
Event | Discus throw |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | Discus throw: 69.12 m (2022) |
Feng Bin (simplified Chinese: 冯彬; traditional Chinese: 馮彬; pinyin: Féng Bīn, born 3 April 1994) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. She won the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Her personal best is 69.12 m (226 ft 9+1⁄4 in), set in 2022 World Athletics Championships to win the world title.2 She was the 2016 winner of the Chinese Athletics Championships.3
She began discus throwing in her early teens and competed at the World Youth Championships in Athletics in 2011, placing fourth.4 Feng broke through at senior level with a gold medal win at the 2015 Military World Games in a personal best of 62.07 m.5 At the 2016 Summer Olympics she was one of three Chinese throwers to make the discus final, alongside medallist Su Xinyue and Chen Yang.6
International competitions
References
References
- Feng Bin Archived 2016-08-26 at the Wayback Machine. Rio2016. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
- Mulkeen, Jon (2016-05-21). Wlodarczyk throws world-leading 79.48m in Halle. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
- Feng Bin Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
- Bin Feng. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
- Mills, Steven (2015-10-08). Mixed fortunes for world champions at World Military Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
- China makes new Olympic breakthroughs in field sports. China Daily (2016-08-18). Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
External links
External links
- Feng Bin at World Athletics
- Feng Bin at Olympics.com
- Feng Bin at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived)
- Feng Bin at Olympedia
- Feng Bin at InterSportStats