Chen Xingqiang

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Chen Xingqiang
Personal information
Full nameChen Xingqiang
NationalityFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Born (1972-09-12) 12 September 1972 (age 52)
Sichuan, China
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight125 kg (276 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Style Freestyle
ClubSichuan Wrestling Club
CoachBu Long
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Asian Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2000 Guilin 130 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Tashkent 130 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2001 Ulan Bator 130 kg

Chen Xingqiang (Chinese :陈兴强; pinyin :Chén Xìngqiáng; born September 12, 1972) is a Chinese former amateur freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. [1] He won three medals (a silver and two bronze) in his signature weight division at the Asian Championships (1999 to 2001) and eventually wrestled for the Chinese squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Throughout his sporting career, Chen trained at a local wrestling club in Sichuan Province under his personal coach Bu Long.

Chen qualified for the Chinese wrestling squad in the men's super heavyweight class (130 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. [2] Nearly six months earlier, he secured a berth with a runner-up finish at the final match of the fifth Olympic Qualification Tournament in Alexandria, Egypt, bowing out to Uzbekistan's Artur Taymazov for gold. Chen lost two straight matches each to Kyrgyzstan's Aleksandr Kovalevsky (2–4) and 1996 silver medalist Aleksey Medvedev of Belarus (0–3), slipping him out of the prelim pool to last place and fourteenth overall. [3]

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