Career
Born in Zibo, Shandong province, Zhang is coached by Ye Kuigang, a former international hammer thrower and two-time Chinese National Games champion, part of a training group with compatriot Zhao Jie. [2]
Zhang threw 66.81 metres to win the hammer throw at the 2023 Asian U18 Athletics Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in a April 2023. [3] In April 2024, she won the hammer throw at the Asian Athletics U20 Championships in Dubai with a throw of 66.79 metres. [4] She threw 68.95 metres to win the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in the hammer throw in Lima, Peru, having also qualified with the leading distance, a 65.73m effort in the second round. [5] [6]
She threw 75.14m at the Hammerwurf-Meeting in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany to break the U20 world record by 1.70 metres, in June 2025. The previous best mark was 73.43m set by the Silja Kosonen in 2021. [7] [8] She broke her own record in August at the Chinese Championships in Quzhou with a throw of 77.24m. [9] In September 2025, she competed in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, winning the bronze medal with a throw of 77.10 metres. [10] By the end of the 2025 season, Zhang had thrown the ten furthest distances ever recorded by an under-20 athlete in the hammer throw, and had moved to fifteenth on the world all-time list. Subsequently, she won the 2025 World Athletics Rising Star Award. [11] [2]
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