Dong Bin (; born 22 November 1988) is a Chinese
track and field
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athlete who specialises in the
triple jump
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. He is a two-time
gold medal
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list at the
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
The Asian Indoor Athletics Championships were held for the first time in 2004 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, 2004. Run by the Asian Athletics Association, the championships take place biennially in different cities all over Asia. and has a personal best of 17.58 metres, which he set winning the bronze medal at the
2016 Olympics
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. In 2016 he won the
World Indoor Championship.
His indoor best of 17.33 m is an
Asian
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and
Chinese indoor record. He also represented China at the
2012 Olympics
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, came fifth at the
2011 Asian Athletics Championships
The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium. The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four- ...
and was a finalist at the
Summer Universiade
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in both 2009 and 2011.
Career
Born in
Changsha
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, he first represented China internationally at the
2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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...
held in
Beijing
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, where he finished eighth in his qualifying group. He made progress into the senior ranks in 2008, when finished as runner-up at the
Chinese Athletics Championships
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with a personal best of 16.54 m. In the 2009 indoor season, he improved this to 16.89 m on the
Chinese Athletics Grand Prix
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circuit. He represented his province (
Hunan
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) at the
2009 National Games of China
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and came sixth.
His first major success in the senior ranks came at the
2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
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, where his jump of 16.73 m was a championship record and brought him the gold medal. He set an outdoor personal best of 16.86 m that year and placed third at the national championships.
[Dong Bin]
. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-03-16. He broke the
Chinese indoor record in February 2011, clearing 17.01 m and matched his outdoor best in April. Dong and
Li Yanxi
Li Yanxi (; born June 26, 1984, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei) is a Chinese triple jumper.
He won the silver medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, finished fourth at the 2006 IAAF World Cup and won the 2006 Asian Games
6 (six) is the natur ...
were the Chinese entrants at that year's
2011 Asian Athletics Championships
The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium. The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four- ...
, but while Li took the silver Dong only managed fifth place with 16.36 m. Just over a week later he jumped 17.05 m, albeit wind-aided (+2.1 m/s).
[
He defended his title at the ]2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
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with a championship and national record of 17.01 m, although he narrowly saw off Chinese rival Cao Shuo
Cao Shuo (born October 8, 1991) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He was born in Hebei.* His personal bests were both set in 2012, outdoors, his personal best is 17.35 m, while his indoor personal best is 1 ...
, who jumped the same distance but had a shorter second-best jump. In his first appearance on the global senior stage he finished eighth at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the 14th edition of the global-level indoor track and field competition and was held between March 9–11, 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first of four ...
. Outdoors, a big improvement to 17.38 m in April earned him a place at the London Olympics and he reached tenth in the Olympic triple jump final – the best performance by an Asian athlete.[Bin Dong]
. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-16.
In Nanjing
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in March 2013 he broke Oleg Sakirkin
Oleg Evgyenevich Sakirkin ( kz, Олег Евгеневич Сакиркин; 23 January 1966 – 18 March 2015) was a triple jumper from Shymkent, Ongutsik Qazaqstan, who represented the USSR and later Kazakhstan. His greatest achievement came ...
's 20-year-old Asian indoor record with a jump of 17.16 m.[Jalava, Mirko (2013-03-07)]
Dong Bin leads the way as indoor records tumble in Nanjing
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-17. That year, he also reached the final of the World Championship
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.
Personal bests
*Long jump
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: 7.09 metres (2007)
*Triple jump
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...
(outdoor): 17.58 metres (2016)
*Triple jump (indoor): 17.41 metres (2016) AR
Competition record
References
External links
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Living people
1988 births
Chinese male triple jumpers
Sportspeople from Changsha
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for China
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
Athletes from Hunan
World Athletics Championships athletes for China
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for China
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Olympic male triple jumpers
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners