Career
Coached by Ye Kuigang, a former international hammer thrower and two-time Chinese National Games champion, she is part of a training group with compatriot Zhang Jiale. [2]
Zhao competed for China at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the women's hammer throw in Eugene, Oregon. [3] [4] She won the silver medal the following year in the hammer throw at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in 2023. [5] She also competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in the hammer throw. [6] She won the hammer throw at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok. [7]
In August 2024, she won the bronze medal representing China in the women's hammer throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, where she made a throw of 74.27 meters to place third in the event. [8] [9]
She threw a personal best of 76.60m in winning the Hammerwurf-Meeting in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany in June 2025, finishing ahead of her compatriot Zhang Jiale who set a new under-20 world record. [10] In July 2025, she won the gold medal with a throw of 72.80m at the 2025 World University Games in Bochum, Germany. [11]
In September 2025, she won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, throwing a new personal best distance of 77.60 metres. [12]
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