Fu Mingxia
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2007-07-29 19:56

Personal Best:

Gold Medal of Platform, 1992 Olympic Games, 1996 Olympic Games, 2000 Olympic Games.

Sports Career:

Took up gymnastics in Wuhan Spare-time Sports School in 1985. Fu switched to diving before being selected as a member of the Hubei provincial diving team in 1987. Stood 1.37m and aged 12, she won the platform event of group B in the National Junior Competition in 1990. Following that, she was selected for intensified training by the national team.

High Performances:

- 1990 US International Invitational

- 1st platform
- 1990 Canada International Open

- 2nd platform
- 1990 US International Open

- 1st platform
- 1990 Jinan International Open

- 3rd platform
- 1990 US Goodwill Games

- 1st platform (443.04 pts, youngest titlist in Games history)
- 1990 Beijing Asian Games

- 3rd platform
- 1991 Perth World Swimming Championships

- 1st (426.50 pts, going down in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest world champion in swimming history)
- 1991 China International Open

- 2nd springboard, 3rd platform
- 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games

- 1st platform (winning China's third Olympic platform gold in succession)
- 1993 World Cup

- 1st team & mixed team

- 3rd platform,
- 1994 Rome World Swimming Championships

- 1st platform
- 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games ￡ 

- 2nd springboard
- 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games

- 1st springboard & platform
- 2000 Sydney Olympic Games

- 1st springboard

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