Zhou Jihong
Chinese diver
Zhou Jihong (simplified Chinese: 周继红; traditional Chinese: 周繼紅; pinyin: Zhōu Jìhóng, born 11 January 1965) is a Chinese diver who represented China at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Sports career
Born in Wuhan on 1965, Zhou originally practiced gymnastics before switching to diving. In 1977, she entered the Hubei diving team and began to receive professional diving training. She won the national championship in 1981 and entered the Chinese women's diving team in 1982.
In 1984, during the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she replaced Lü Wei, after Lü suffered from an injury. In the women's 10 metre platform, she won the gold medal with a total score of 435.51 points becoming the first Chinese diver to win a gold medal in the Olympics. In the same year, she was named the best athlete of the year in women's platform diving by magazine Swimming World.
In 1998, she became the team leader of the Chinese diving team. Under her leadership, Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing won gold and silver medals in the women's 3 metre springboard at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the Chinese diving team won 6 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.
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