Wang Feng (diver)

Wang Feng (Chinese王峰, Pinyin Wang Feng, born April 17, 1979 in Jinan, Shandong ) is a Chinese diver and a multiple world champion in the water jump. At a height of 1.70 m his competition weight is 60 kg.

Career

Wang Feng in 1979 in Jinan ( other sources say, Tai'an ) was born in Shandong Province. He began in 1985 in childhood with the gymnastics, before transferring to springboard diving two years later. In 2000 he was appointed to the Chinese national team and won at the World Swimming Championships in 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan, the competition from the 1- meter board against his compatriot Wang Tian Ling and the Russian Alexander Dobroskok for themselves. Two years later at the World Championships in Barcelona, he joined together with Wang Tian Ling synchronized diving from the 3- meter board, but had to admit defeat to the Russians Dobroskok and Dmitry Sautin and won the silver medal. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens took Wang in defeating his compatriot Peng Bo only a fourth place in the art of jumping from the 3- meter board, before he was able to build a year later at the World Swimming Championships in Montreal on earlier successes. Wang won together with his compatriot He Chong, 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 1- meter board.

Since 2006, Wang takes his seven years younger partner Qin Kai only in synchronized competition. The duo has since been a great success in the synchronized diving granted by the 3- meter board, to count since 2007, six victories in the World Series, two Grand Prix wins and the world championship title in Melbourne. 2008 Wang and Qin were also superior to decide the competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing home for themselves. In the next world championships in Rome in July 2009, both won well synchronized diving from the 3-meter board against the Americans Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen and two Canadians Despatie and Reuben Ross.

The high school graduate who counts the former Chinese world class jumper and Olympic gold medalist Xiong Ni to his idols, lives in Beijing and is currently coached by Zhong Shaozhen. End of July 2008, he, together with his Chinese teammate Guo Jingjing the honor to participate in the Olympic Torch Relay to Beijing, the station made ​​in Jinan, where is the training center of the Chinese Diving Team.