Huang Changzhou (; born 20 August 1994) is a Chinese

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competes in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. He was the bronze medallist at the

2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held between March 17 and 20, 2016 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The event did not feature Russia. Following a WADA investigation into widespread and institutional doping practices ...

. His personal best is . Training with American coach

Randy Huntington Randy Huntington (born ) is an American track and field coach. He is one of the five rated USATF Master Coaches for jumps in the U.S. Seven of his athletes have been in the U.S. all-time top 10 in their events. He has coached Mike Powell and Wi ...

, Huang began to improve in a group of Chinese jumpers which included world medallist

Li Jinzhe Li Jinzhe (simplified Chinese: 李金哲; born 1 September 1989) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. His personal best is 8.47 metres, set in 2014. This gives him the Chinese record long jump. He was the 20 ...

, Asian Games medalist Gao Xinglong and world junior champion Wang Jianan. They represented an emergence of China as a global force in jumping. At age nineteen, Huang took fourth place at the 2013 Chinese Games, clearing and trailing bronze medallist

Zhang Yaoguang Zhang Yaoguang ( zh, 张耀广; born 21 June 1993) is a Chinese athlete specialising in the long jump. He won a silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially kno ...

by just one centimetre. He began competing on the international track and field circuit and placed third in the long jump at the

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meet, sweeping the top three for China with training mates Li and Wang. He cleared eight metres for the first time in the 2014 season, achieving a best of that August in Beijing. Huang began to rank highly at global level in 2015. A best of indoors placed him seventh on the seasonal rankings, then he went further to outdoors, placing in the top 25 globally. He was selected for the

2015 Asian Athletics Championships The 21st Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan, China from 3–7 June 2015.Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...

, but failed to record a valid mark in the qualifying round. He was slightly better at the

2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships The 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the seventh edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, between 19 and 21 February. Three new women's Asian indoor r ...

, but was some way off his best in fifth place. Huang gained his first global call up the following year (having missed the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

held in China) after strong performances on the Chinese National Indoor Grand Prix circuit, which included a new best of . One of two Chinese entrants alongside Wang,Mulkeen, Jon (2016-03-14)
Preview: men's long jump – IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-20. he matched his best in the third round before improving to in the final round, earning himself the bronze medal.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Changzhou Living people 1994 births Chinese male long jumpers Olympic athletes for China Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Asian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Chinese people