Zhang Li (; born 26 June 1961) is a former

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete from

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, who competed for her native country in the women's

javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's de ...

event. She was a gold medallist at the

1990 Asian Games ) , nations = 31 , athletes = 6,122 , events = 308 in 27 sports , opening = 22 September 1990 , closing = 7 October 1990 , opened_by = Yang Shangkun , closed_by = Roy de Silva , athlete_oath = Chen L ...

and the 1993 Asian Athletics Championships. Her winning throw of at the former event was a Games record and remains the best mark using the old javelin design. Zhang twice competed for Asia at the

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and was a silver medallist in 1989. She represented her home area of

Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

at the 1993 National Games of China and was runner-up to Ha Xiaoyan.7th National Games medallists
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* 1961 births Living people Athletes from Tianjin Chinese female javelin throwers Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Japan Championships in Athletics winners Asian Athletics Championships winners Chinese Athletics Championships winners {{PRChina-athletics-bio-stub