Kong Yingchao

Yingchao Kong (Chinese孔 颖超, Pinyin Kǒng Yǐngchāo, born October 9, 1982 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China) is a Chinese biathlete.

Career

Kong Yingchao began in 1995 with the biathlon. It is sports soldier who competes for no association, but for the Chinese Biathlon Association. The living in Dalian and Wang Weiyi and Rene Altenburger cooking (until 2008 Klaus Siebert ) trained athlete made ​​his debut in 1999 at the World Cup in Lake Placid. In her first sprint she was 55 and was able to immediately qualify for the subsequent persecution, was there but not the finish. Already at their fourth World Cup appearance in 2000 in Ruhpolding they first came in the top ten. In the coming years, the athlete was very unstable. Good results followed almost always bad to very bad. Not finishing - Multiple they came - either because of lapping in the prosecution or for disqualification.

In the season 2004/05 finally able to stabilize. Four times she came into this season in the top 10, two times even in the sprint and pursuit of Pokljuka, they came in second. She participated in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, in 2006 and 2010teil, could, however, apart from a 17th place in the pursuit in Turin not achieve top rankings. Their World Cup starts from 2000 to 2008 ran apart from a sixth place in the mass start, 2005 in Hochfilzen little success.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).