Zhu Qinan is a male Chinese

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics

Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 10 m Air Rifle

The men's 10 metre air rifle competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 16 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. The two Chinese shooters in the event, Zhu Qinan and Li Jie, secured a double victory with Slovakia's Jozef Gönci claiming the bronze...

 in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle

10 m Air Rifle

10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

 event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle

10 m Air Rifle

10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...

 event. Zhu currently is studying at Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University , sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest institutions of higher education...

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Zhu began shooting training at Wenzhou Sports School in 1999. From there, in February 2002, he joined the Zhejiang

Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

 province shooting team. Zhu joined the national shooting team on December 14, 2003. At the time of his Olympic victory, he was still a junior, and his qualification round score of 599 was an equalled junior world record. He repeated this achievement at the 2004 ISSF World Cup Final

2004 ISSF World Cup Final

For the 2004 ISSF World Cup Final in the seventeen Olympic shooting events, the World Cup Final was held in September 2004 in Maribor, Slovenia for the shotgun events, and in October 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand for the rifle, pistol and running target events...

 in Bangkok

Bangkok

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, which he also won. He has since then won several ISSF World Cup

ISSF World Cup

The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It still is carried out in the Olympic shooting events, with four competitions per year in each event...

 competitions in 10 m Air Rifle. His best result in 50 m Rifle

50 metre rifle prone

50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle...

 is a bronze medal from the 2004 Asian Championships. Zhu is 5'11" tall and weighs 148 pounds.

Current world records held in 10 m Air Rifle 10 m Air Rifle 10 metre air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event, shot over a distance of 10 metres from a standing position with a 4.5 mm calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of 5.5 kg...
Junior Men

External links

• Zhu's profile at ISSF NEWS