Zhao Jie
Zhao in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Born | 13 October 2002 Kunshan, China |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Hammer throw |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Hammer: 78.60m (Tokyo, 2025) |
Zhao Jie (born 13 October 2002) is a Chinese hammer thrower. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, and won the silver medal at the 2025 World Championships. She won the hammer throw at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships and won the gold medal at the 2025 Summer World University Games.[1]
Career
Coached by Ye Kuigang, a former international hammer thrower and two-time Chinese National Games champion, she is part of a training group with compatriot Zhang Jiale.[2]
Zhao competed for China at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the women's hammer throw in Eugene, Oregon.[3][4] She won the silver medal the following year in the hammer throw at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in 2023.[5] She also competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in the hammer throw.[6] She won the hammer throw at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok.[7]
In August 2024, she won the bronze medal representing China in the women's hammer throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, where she made a throw of 74.27 meters to place third in the event.[8][9]
She threw a personal best of 76.60m in winning the Hammerwurf-Meeting in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany in June 2025, finishing ahead of her compatriot Zhang Jiale who set a new under-20 world record.[10] In July 2025, she won the gold medal with a throw of 72.80m at the 2025 World University Games in Bochum, Germany.[11]
In September 2025, she won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, throwing a new personal best distance of 77.60 metres.[12]
References
- ^ "Zhao Jie". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Rising Star Zhang carries China's hammer tradition into a new era". World Athletics. 15 January 2026. Retrieved 20 Jan 2026.
- ^ "Women's Hammer Throw Results: World Athletics Championships 2022". Watch Athletics. 17 July 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Highlights of World Athletics Championships Oregon22". news.cn. 16 July 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Asian Games record for Obiena and seven gold medals for China after two days of action in Hangzhou". World Athletics. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Hammer throw women". World Athletics. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "China bags men's and women's hammer throw golds at Asian Athletics Championships". People's Daily. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ 刘小卓. "Zhao 'emotional' after hammer throw bronze". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Chinese team announced for Paris Olympics". World Athletics. 12 July 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ^ "Zhang throws world U20 hammer record in Fränkisch-Crumbach". World Athletics. 8 June 2025. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
- ^ Dennehy, Cathal. "Another Irish medal at World University Games as 'delighted' Nicola Tuthill takes silver in hammer". Independent.ie. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.