Tang Xingqiang

Tang Xingqiang (Chinese: 汤星强; born 11 August 1995 in Zhouning County, Fujian province) is a Chinese track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

He made his international senior debut at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, competing in the 200 metres and reaching the semi-finals.^[2]

At the 2016 Rio Olympics he led off a Chinese 4 × 100 metres relay quarter including Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, and Zhang Peimeng. The team set an Asian record of 37.82 seconds in qualifying and finished fourth in the final. The record was quickly broken by Japan in the following relay heat,^[3]^[4] but it remains the Chinese record.

Personal bests[]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	11th (sf)	200 m	21.06
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4th	4 × 100 m relay	37.90
2017	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	39.22
	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	6th	4 × 200 m relay	1:22.91
	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	8th (sf)	100 m	10.43¹
	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.38
2020	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	4th	4 × 100 m relay	37.79 = Chinese record

¹Disqualified in the final

^ ^a ^b Tang Xingqiang. Rio2016. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
^ 2015 Asian Athletics Championships Results. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2016-08-21.
^ Day seven in numbers – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF (2016-08-18). Retrieved on 2016-08-21.
^ Morse, Parker (2016-08-19). Report: men's 4x100m final – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-21.