Zheng Tao (swimmer)
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Nickname(s) | armless swimmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kunming City | 25 December 1990||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | Yang Meili[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other interests | Fishing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Limb deficiency (Acquired) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S5/SB6/SM5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Yunnan Province [Kunming, CHN] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Zhang, Honghu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zheng Tao (Chinese: 郑涛, born 25 December 1990) is a Chinese para swimmer and five-time Paralympic champion. He is known as the "armless swimmer".[2]He made a world record by winning 4 gold medals in Tokyo 2020 Paralympic.
Early life[]
Zheng lost his arms due to an electric shock when he was a child.[1]
Swimming Career[]
In 2004 Zheng took up the sport of Swimming and in 2010 he made his international swimming debut when Zheng represented China at the World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[1]
Zheng competed in his first Paralympic Games at the 2012 London Paralympics, where he won the gold medal in a close race in the 100m backstroke S6 final.[2]
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, he suffered a lower back injury but still won the gold medal at the Men's 100 metre backstroke S6 event with a world record of 1:10.84, two seconds faster than the previous record, which was established by himself in 2015.[2] He then caught the stomach flu on the day of the 50-metre butterfly S6 final, and lost to his teammate Xu Qing, winning a silver medal in the event.[2]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, he won the gold medal at the Men's Butterfly S5 event with a world record of 30.62, the gold medal at the Men's Backstroke S5 event with a world record of 31.42 and the gold medal at the 50m Freestyle S5. He also won the gold medal at the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points.
References[]
- ^ a b c "Swimming - ZHENG Tao - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
Date of Birth: 25 Dec 1990, Place of birth: KUNMING
- ^ a b c d Feng, Sophia (2016-12-28). "Zheng vows to only swim for pleasure in 2017". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
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External links[]
- Zheng Tao at the International Paralympic Committee
- Zheng Tao at IPC.InfostradaSports.com
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Paralympic gold medalists for China
- Paralympic swimmers of China
- Chinese male backstroke swimmers
- Chinese male butterfly swimmers
- Chinese male medley swimmers
- Chinese male freestyle swimmers
- S6-classified Paralympic swimmers
- Paralympic bronze medalists for China
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Amputee sportspeople
- Chinese amputees
- Chinese Paralympic medalist stubs
- Chinese swimming biography stubs