Zhou Mi (badminton)

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Zhou Mi (周 蜜Chinese, Pinyin Zhou Mi; born February 18, 1979 in Nanning, Guangxi ) is a badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

Career

Zhou took part in the 2004 Olympics. In the women's singles they beat Xu Huaiwen from Germany and Kaori Mori of Japan in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, Zhou Petya Nedelcheva struck from Bulgaria with 11:4, 11:1, to advance to the semifinals. There, she defeated her compatriot Zhang Ning 11:6, 11:4. There is now also the public statement of the then head coach Li Yongbo that Zhou Mi was ordered after the first lost set of him, even to verliegen the second, so Zhang Ning can save energy for the final. Then defeated Zhou Gong Ruina, also from China, 11:2, 8:11, 11:6 in the " consolation final," which she won the bronze medal. In 2007 she won, now starting for Hong Kong, the New Zealand Open. In 2008, she was able to defend that title.

In August 2010, the player of the Badminton World Federation ( BWF) for a doping - offense for two years has been banned from competitive skating. She had been tested on 28 June 2010 in Hong Kong outside of a competition. A laboratory of the World Anti -Doping Agency was able to show her the consumption of the substance Clenbuterol.