Zhang Yingying

Zhang Yingying (Chinese张莹莹, Pinyin Zhang Yingying, born January 4, 1990) is a Chinese long-distance runner.

For the first time she drew attention to himself as a Fourth of Xiamen Marathon 2007. At the Beijing Marathon the same year she finished second in 2:27:20 h, and shortly thereafter she ran with 31:17,30 min, the fourth best time of the year over 10,000 m.

A day after her 18th birthday, she won the Xiamen Marathon in 2:22:38 h and placed so that a junior indoor world record on. Subsequently, she was nominated together with Zhou and Zhu Xiaolin Chunxiu for the marathon of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, there but they eventually started about 5000 m, where it was eliminated in the semifinals, and 10,000 m, where they finished in 16th place.

At the Beijing Marathon the same year she was third. In 2009 she was at the Xiamen marathon second, but remained with 2:32:57 hours more than ten minutes on their previous year, won the Yangzhou Jianzhen Half Marathon and came at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin 10,000 m to 18th place.

Bests

  • 5000 m: 15:06,08 min, 31 October 2007 Wuhan
  • 10,000 m: 31:17,30 min, November 2, 2007, Wuhan
  • Half Marathon: 1:11:01 h 26 April, 2009, Yangzhou
  • Marathon: 2:22:38 h, January 5, 2008, Xiamen
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