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| Nationality | Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 October 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump 8.13m (Tokyo, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zhang Mingkun (born 20 October 2000) is a Chinese long jumper. In 2024, he won the Asian Indoor Championships. [1]
He was an Asian Indoor Championships Bronze medallist in Kazakhstan in February 2023 with a jump of 7.92m. [2] He was an Asian Championships bronze medallist in the long jump in Bangkok in July 2023, with a personal best distance of 8.08 metres. [3] [4] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023. [5]
He was the Asian Indoor champion in Tehran in 2024. [6] He jumped a lifetime best of 8.13m in the final round of the men’s long jump to win the World Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo on 19 May 2024. [7] [8]
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