Zhou Yu (; born 23 January 1989) is a Chinese sprint canoeist. She won gold and silver medal in the women's kayak singles (both 200 and 500 m) at the 2010 Asian Games in

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. Zhou is also a member of Hunan Sports Club, there she is coached and trained by Wu Yubiao. Zhou represented China at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, where she competed in both the women's kayak singles and doubles. For her first event, the women's K-2 500 metres, Zhou and her partner Wu Yanan narrowly missed out of the Olympic medal in the A-final by nearly fourteen hundredths of a second (0.14) behind the Polish pair

Karolina Naja Karolina Elżbieta Naja (Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1990) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and silver medal in Women ...

and

Beata Mikołajczyk Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish sprint canoer. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in two events for each games; she won one silver and two bronze medals and placed fourth two times. ...

, posting their time of 1:44.136. Three days later, Zhou barely advanced to the semi-final rounds of the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, after finishing sixth and attaining a qualified time of 42.885 seconds in the heats. Unfortunately, Zhou fell short in her bid for the final by seven hundredths of a second (0.07) behind Slovenia's Špela Ponomarenko, with a time of 42.279 seconds.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1989 births Chinese female canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for China Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in canoeing Sportspeople from Liaoyang Canoeists at the 2010 Asian Games Canoeists at the 2014 Asian Games Canoeists at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games {{PRChina-canoe-bio-stub