Xing Huina

Huina Xing (Chinese邢慧娜, Pinyin Xing Huina; born 25 February 1984 in Weifang ) is a Chinese long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist in the 10,000 meter race.

Xing grew up in the province of Shandong to the child of a peasant family. Your Athletic Training began at the Sports School of Weifang City. In 1999, she joined the team of the Technical Institute of Shandong Province.

In 2002 she took at the Asian Games bronze medal over 10,000 m, and at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis, it was about the same distance Seventh and put the active current junior world record of 30:31,55 min.

At the 10,000 - meter race of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Xing won the gold medal in the 10,000 -meter run with her personal best time of 30:24,36, where she directed the Ethiopians Ejegayehu Dibaba and Tulu Derartu in the final sprint to the courts.

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 she won the 5000m in her personal best time of 14:43,64 min and the fifth in the 10,000 m in fourth place, as first non- Ethiopian.

Xing Huina has a competition weight of 50 kg at a height of 1.66 m. They are characterized by the unusual, not angled arm posture during walking.