Zhang Wei (, born 22 December 1989) is a Chinese goalball player. She won a silver medal at the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

. At age 6, she experienced loss of vision and was diagnosed with

optic neuropathy Optic neuropathy is damage to the optic nerve from any cause. The optic nerve is a bundle of millions of fibers in the retina that sends visual signals to the brain. Damage and death of these nerve cells, or neurons, leads to characteristic featu ...

. She began playing goalball in 2008, after participating in track and field for a few years. She discontinued running because she could not find a permanent

sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment. Sports Paralympic Games At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment. Rules are according to the International ...

. She missed the

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due to a rotator cuff tear.

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Female goalball players 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Jiangsu People from Jingjiang Paralympic goalball players of China Paralympic silver medalists for China Goalball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in goalball Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine alumni Goalball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics 21st-century Chinese women {{Goalball-bio-stub