.jpg) Qixin in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-04-07) 7 April 1989 (age 35) Quannan County, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Competition climbing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Speed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zhong Qixin (born 7 April 1989) is a Chinese former competition speed climber. He is a four-time winner of the IFSC World Championships, taking four consecutive wins between 2007 and 2012. He also won the overall title of the 2015 World Cup. In August 2011, he set the world speed climbing record in 6.26 seconds, which stood until October 2012, when it was broken by Evgenii Vaitcekhovskii [cs].
His 13th and final World Cup victory came in October 2019 in Xiamen, where he missed the world record held by Reza Alipour by just one hundredth of a second with a time of 5.48 seconds. After retiring in 2021, Zhong took over the position as head coach of the Chinese national speed climbing team.
He is married and is the father of twin daughters.
See also
References
- "IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2015: M E N speed".
- World record in speed climbing 2011 (6.26 seconds) HD. Jan Kříž. 2011-07-29. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2018-02-15 – via YouTube.
- "Gold for China and a New World Record". IFSC. 19 October 2019.
- "世界冠军，去不了东京奥运会". 体娱 INSIGHT视界 (in Chinese). 24 July 2021.
External links
- Qixin Zhong at IFSC
- 1989 births
- People from Ganzhou
- Chinese rock climbers
- Living people
- Sport climbers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for China
- Asian Games medalists in sport climbing
- World Games medalists in sport climbing
- Medalists at the 2013 World Games
- Medalists at the 2009 World Games
- World Games gold medalists for China
- 21st-century Chinese sportsmen
- IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
- IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
- Speed climbers
- Chinese competition climbers