Tang Xingqiang

Chinese sprinter

Tang Xingqiang

Tang Xingqiang in 2017

Personal information

Nationality

Chinese

Born

(1995-08-11) August 11, 1995 (age 28)
Zhouning County, Fujian, China

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)^[1]

Weight

61 kg (134 lb)^[1]

Sport

Track and field

Event

100 metres

Achievements and titles

Personal best

100 m: 10.22 (2021)

Medal record

Olympic Games

	2020 Tokyo	4×100 m relay
IAAF World Relays
	2017 Nassau	4×100 m relay
Asian Championships
	2017 Bhubaneswar	4×100 m relay

Tang Xingqiang (Chinese: 汤星强; born 11 August 1995) is a Chinese track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

He made his international senior debut at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, competing in the 200 metres and reaching the semi-finals.^[2]

At the 2016 Rio Olympics he led off a Chinese 4 × 100 metres relay quartet including Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, and Zhang Peimeng. The team set an Asian record of 37.82 seconds in qualifying and finished fourth in the final. The record was quickly broken by Japan in the following relay heat,^[3]^[4] but it remains the Chinese record.

Personal bests

60 metres – 6.56 (2016)
100 metres – 10.22 (2021)
200 metres – 20.39 (2021)
200 metres indoor – 22.00 (2016)
4 × 100 metres relay – 37.79 (2021)

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	11th (sf)	200 m	21.06
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4th	4 × 100 m relay	37.90
2017	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	39.22
	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	6th	4 × 200 m relay	1:22.91
	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	8th (sf)	100 m	10.43¹
	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.38
2020	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	37.79 =NR
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	12th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	38.83

¹Disqualified in the final

References

^ ^a ^b Tang Xingqiang. Rio2016. Retrieved on 2016-08-19.
^ 2015 Asian Athletics Championships Results. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2016-08-21.
^ Day seven in numbers – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF (2016-08-18). Retrieved on 2016-08-21.
^ Morse, Parker (2016-08-19). Report: men's 4x100m final – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-21.