Fu Mingxia biography

 Fu Mingxia biography

Fu Mingxia, (born August 16, 1978, Wuhan, Hubei province, China), Chinese diver, who was a standout on the Chinese diving groups that dominated the game within the Nineties. She turned the second youngest gold medalist in Olympic historical past in 1992.

Fu entered the state-sponsored diving program in Beijing at age 9. Under the steering of her coach Yu Fen, Fu shortly mastered the technical elements of the game and developed a fierce competitiveness. She debuted in worldwide competitors at age 11, when she received the 10-metre platform occasion on the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, Washington. The following 12 months she received the platform occasion on the world championships in Perth, Australia. Fu’s victory on the world championships led to the establishment of a rule requiring that rivals, on the minimal, should flip age 14 within the 12 months of a given worldwide meet. She fulfilled this requirement narrowly on the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, turning 14 lower than a month after successful the gold medal within the 10-metre platform occasion.

Fu efficiently defended her title within the 10-metre platform on the 1994 world championships in Rome, and on the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, she achieved a uncommon sweep of the 10-metre platform occasion and the 3-metre springboard. One month later, at age 18, Fu introduced her retirement, explaining, “I am already too old.” Nevertheless, she returned to the Olympics as soon as extra on the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, successful the gold medal within the 3-metre springboard occasion and the silver within the 3-metre synchronized diving occasion.