Zhou Xia

This article is about the para-athlete. For the computer scientist, see Xia Zhou.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhou.

Zhou Xia

Personal information
Nationality	China
Born	12 July 1999 (1999-07-12) (age 25)[1] Huaihua[1]
Sport
Sport	Para-athletics
Disability class	T35
Event	Sprints
Medal record Women's athletics T35 Representing  China Paralympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T35 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m T35 2020 Tokyo 100 m T35 2020 Tokyo 200 m T35 2024 Paris 100 m T35 2024 Paris 200 m T35 World Championships 2023 Paris 100 m T35 2023 Paris 200 m T35 2024 Kobe 100 m T35 2024 Kobe 200 m T35 2017 London 100 m T35 2017 London 200 m T35 Asian Para Games 2018 Jakarta 100 m T35 2018 Jakarta 200 m T35 2022 Hangzhou 100 m T35 2022 Hangzhou 200 m T35

Zhou Xia (born 12 July 1999) is a Chinese para-athlete who competes in sprint events. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in the T35 100 m and 200 m races. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals in the T35 100m race and T35 200m, setting a new world record in both event.[1][2]

Career

Zhou competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she was 17 years old. She won the T35 100 m (ahead of Australia's Isis Holt and Britain's Maria Lyle) and set a Paralympics record for the event with a time of 13.66s.[3] She also won gold in the T35 200 m event with a world record time of 28.22s.[4]

Zhou competed in the IPC Athletics World Championships in London in 2014. She won the silver medal in both the 100 m and 200 m events, behind Isis Holt.[5][6]

Zhou competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. She won the T35 100 m in a world record time of 13.00s. She also won the T35 200 m in a world record time of 27.17s.

References

1. "ZHOU Xia". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021. Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1999 / Sport Class: T35 / Place of birth: HUAIHUA
2. "Athletics – Paralympic Records". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
3. "Rio 2016: The new teens on the block". Athletics Weekly. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
4. Lindsay, Anna; Chowdhury, Saj (18 September 2016). "GB ensure best medal haul since 1988". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
5. "Maria Lyle wins another World Championships medal". East Lothian Courier. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
6. "Results – Women's 200m T35 Final" (PDF). Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.

External links

• Zhou Xia at the International Paralympic Committee