He Chong
He Chong at the 2008 Olympic Games
He Chong (何 冲Chinese, Pinyin He Chong, born June 10, 1987 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong) is a Chinese diver. At a height of 1.70 m his competition weight is 62 kg.
He Chong in 1987 in Guangdong province ( other sources indicate that in Zhanjiang ) born. He attended from 1994, the sports school in the municipality of Zhanjiang Chikan and arrived in the province selection of Guangdong four years later. In 2000, He was the Youth Asian Championships to decide for himself, as he was appointed in 2001 to the Chinese national team Springer. A year later he was thrown due to unstable services from the national squad. This left Hey mature in their own words and the end of 2004 he ventured into more difficult jumps.
The return to China Springer national and international success in the seniors He was granted from the year 2005. He won at the World Swimming Championships 2005 in Montreal, Canada with his eight years older compatriot Wang Feng, the synchronized diving from the 3-meter board against the Germans Tobias Schellenberg and Andreas Wels and the victory of the Canadian Alexandre Despatie a bronze medal in the individual competition of the 3-meter board. In the same year he was together with Wang at five Grand Prix in synchronized diving and successfully won the 3- meter springboard competitions in the Single at the International Springertag in Rostock and in the American Spring Swallows. By 2007, followed by eleven more Grand Prix wins, including five in the singles category and six in the synchronized diving, each of the 3- meter board. At the previous success He was able to build conditional in the FINA World Swimming Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia, when he did not it past the victory of his teammate Qin Kai over a sixth of the 3- meter board and from behind his compatriot Luo Yutong with the silver medal had to settle for 1- meter board. Thereupon the Springer concentrated in preparation for the Olympic Games in Beijing domestic emphasis on the individual competition of the 3- meter board. He won in 2008 with the Canada Cup and the China Open again two Grand Prix competitions and the World Series competitions in Sheffield and Nanjing, where he respectively his teammate Qin Kai pointed to the second place. At the Olympics, he finally won superior in jumping from the 3- meter springboard gold medal Alexandre Despatie prior and Qin Kai, taking in the final passage ( 6 jumps) eleven times received the top score of 10.0 points. On this success, he was able to continue at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, where he won the gold medal in front of the American Troy Dumais and Alexandre Despatie of the Canadian 3- meter board in July 2009. Also at the home World Cup 2011 in Shanghai, he was the title from the 3 -meter board win. A year later at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he had to settle for bronze behind the Olympic champion Ilya Zakharov of Russia and his teammate Qin Kai. In the semifinals, he had Sakharov still referenced place.
The student lives in Beijing and is currently coached by Liu Henglin. Both competitions in and outside of the pool falls He on by his self-assured and daredevil behavior and is among other things a two and a half times the somersault with three screws with a difficulty of 3.8 for his jumping repertoire.