Xu Shixiao Explained

Xu Shixiao
Nationality:	Chinese
Birth Date:	16 February 1992
Birth Place:	Yanshan County, Jiangxi, China
Height:	171 cm
Country:	China
Sport:	Sprint canoe
Event:	C–2 500 m

Xu Shixiao (born 16 February 1992) is a Chinese sprint canoeist.^[1] She won the gold medal with her teammate Sun Mengya in women's C-2 500 metres at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on 7 August 2021.^{[2] [3]}

Career

She studied at Jiangxi Normal University.

She competed at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, and won a gold medal at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[4]

She qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she and her partner Sun Mengya won the gold medal in women's C-2 500 metres in the event's debut on the Olympic stage, as the Olympics moves toward gender equality.

Notes and References

1. http://results.digicorp.hu/athlete/16806047 Profile
2. Web site: 7 August 2021. Canoe Sprint – Final A Results. Tokyo Olympics Official Website. 7 August 2021. 7 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210807004821/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/canoe-sprint/race-results-women-s-canoe-double-500m-fnl-000100-.htm. dead.
3. Web site: SUN Mengya and XU Shixiao dominate to win canoe sprint women's C2 500m. 10 August 2021. Tokyo 2020. en-US.
4. https://digicorp-szeged2019-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/production/race/pdf_results/1/2019%20WCh%20Szeged%20Race%20253.pdf 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships results