Fu Haitao Explained

Fu Haitao (; born 13 January 1993) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. Fu was the gold medallist at the 2013 East Asian Games and the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2014. He also finished in the top two at the 2010 Youth Olympics and the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. His personal best is .

Career

Born in Fujian,[1] he competed in jumping events in his youth and set bests of and in the long and triple jump to finish in the top two at the 2008 Chinese High School Championships. He cleared sixteen metres in the triple jump for the first time in 2009, en route to winning the Chinese High School Games title.[2] In his first international competition, he cleared a personal best of to take second place at the 2010 Youth Olympics, finishing behind Cuban Radame Fabar.[3] He ended that year having improved his best mark to .[4]

He competed only nationally in 2011 and he competed a long/triple jump double at the Chinese junior championships. His best performances came at the Chinese City Games, where he cleared to take bronze in the long jump and leaped to win the triple jump title – the latter mark ranked him third in the world that year among junior athletes.[5] [6] The following year he failed to improve upon these marks, but his best jump of the year at was enough to win the gold medal at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships.[7] [8] He was among the top qualifiers at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but managed only seventh place in the final.[9]

Fu took his first senior medals in 2013, first a triple jump bronze medal at the 12th National Games of China,[10] then a gold medal at the 2013 East Asian Games, where he defeated the reigning Asian champion Cao Shuo.[11] He began the next year by winning his first continental title, taking the gold at the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Hangzhou with an indoor best of .[12]

Notes and References

  1. http://sports.sohu.com/20130910/n386322206.shtml 图文:全运男子三级跳远决赛 傅海涛速度飞快
  2. http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/atm.php?ID=112927&Season=2011&Odd=0 Fu Haitao
  3. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WYG/WYG2010.html Youth Olympics 2010
  4. http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/pr-of-china/haitao-fu-250632#progression Haitao Fu
  5. Jalava, Mirko (2011-10-23). World youth medallists excel at Chinese City Games in Nanchang - Days 1-3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  6. Jalava, Mirko (2011-10-25). Asian junior men's Shot Put record in Nanchang as Chinese City Games Conclude. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  7. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/ASJC/ASJC2012.html Asian Junior Championships 2012
  8. Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2012-06-13). Ashraf steals the show in Asian Juniors with 80.85m world junior hammer lead. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
  9. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC2012.html World Junior Championships 2012
  10. http://results.liaoning2013.com.cn/Info2013/html/zh-cn/pages/CRS/DisciplineResult.htm?DisciplineCode=AT&DisciplineID=6 田径
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20131014235351/http://ultraviewdirectory.com/event/east-asian-games-athletics.html East Asian Games Athletics Medals
  12. Jalava, Mirko (2014-02-16). Barshim over 2.36m at the Asian Indoor Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.