Zhang Shan (; born March 23, 1968) is a Chinese

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and

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champion.

Career

Zhang Shan was born in the city of

Nanchong Nanchong (; Sichuanese: lan2cong1) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with an area of . At the 2020 census it was home to 5,607,565 people, of whom 1,936,534 lived in the built-up (or 'metro') area made of th ...

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province in Southwest China. She began shooting skeet at age 16. In 1989, she joined the Chinese national skeet team. She won the gold medal in the Olympic Skeet Shooting event at the

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. This event had been mixed, open to both men and women, since it was introduced to the olympics in 1968. Zhang Shan's 1992 gold was the first medal won by a woman in this mixed event. The International Shooting Union consequently barred women from the 1996 Atlanta games. For the 2000 Sydney games, the International Olympic committee allowed women again, but only in segregated competition. Zhang participated in the 2000 Olympic women's skeet placing 8th. She had won the title at seventh National Game in 1993. Zhang won the title at Lonato World Shooting Championship in 2005. She won a gold medal with the Chinese team in the women's skeet (team event) at the 2007 World Shotgun Championships in

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. She took part in the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in

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, where she placed 15th in individual skeet. Her later achievements includes a silver medal in 2017 at the 13th Chinese National Games, at the age of 49, 25 years after her Olympic gold medal.

Olympic results

Records

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Shan 1968 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic shooters of China People from Nanchong Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sichuan University alumni Asian Games medalists in shooting Olympic medalists in shooting Sport shooters from Sichuan Shooters at the 1990 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Chinese female sport shooters Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games 21st-century Chinese women