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Born | 26 May 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Shot put: 20.40 m (Schönebeck, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Xing Jialiang (born 26 May 2001) is a Chinese shot putter. He won the Chinese Indoor Championships title in 2025 and won the silver medal at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships. [1]
From north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, his father is a PE teacher who also competed in throwing events. Additionally, his twin brother Xing Jiadong also competes as a discus thrower. He finished fourth in the discus throw, with his brother sixth, at the 2015 National Middle School Track and Field Championships. After which they both attended and trained at the High School attached to Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2020, both began to study at Peking University. He finished fourth in the shot put at the 2021 University Games in Chengdu. [2] [3]
He won the shot put at the Chinese Indoor Athletics Championships in March 2025 with a throw of 20.10 metres. [4] In May 2025, he was a silver medalist at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in the shot put in Gumi, South Korea with a throw of 19.97 metres. [5] [6] In July 2025, he won the silver medal in the shot put at the 2025 University Games in Germany, behind South African Aiden Smith. [7]