XIE Zhenye

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m	200m	4 x 100m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (10.11)	-	4th (37.90)
2012	London, GBR	-	1R (20.69)	-

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	200m
2010	Singapore, SIN	1st (21.22)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	200m	4 x 100m
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (10.14)	7th (20.14)	6th
2017	London, GBR	SF (10.28)	-	4th (38.34)
2015	Beijing, CHN	-	Heats (DQ)	2nd (38.01)
2013	Moscow, RUS	-	Heats (20.74)	-

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2019	Yokohama, JPN	4th (38.16)
2017	Nassau, BAH	3rd (39.22)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	200m	4 x 100m
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (20.33)	7th (DQ)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	100m	200m
2019	2 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 8th	1 x 7th
2018	1 x 3rd, 1 x 8th	-
2017	-	1 x 5th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019	100m	Zurich, SUI	10.04
2	2019	100m	Oslo, NOR	10.01
3	2018	100m	Shanghai, CHN	10.17
5	2017	200m	Shanghai, CHN	20.40
6	2019	100m	Shanghai, CHN	10.09
7	2019	200m	Lausanne, SUI	20.32
8	2019	100m	Birmingham, GBR	10.17
8	2018	100m	London, GBR	10.01

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2018	200m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	20.16
2	2017	100m	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	10.11
3	2019	100m	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	10.06
4	2018	200m	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	20.45
8	2019	100m	World Challenge	Nanjing, CHN	10.30

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	60m
2018	Birmingham, GBR	4th (6.52)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

A-Cai, Da Heiniu [Big Black Cow] (chinanews.com, 31 May 2012; sport.gov.cn, 30 Mar 2016; sports.sina.com.cn, 15 Jun 2021)

Playing computer games, fashion, origami, Lego. (sports.xinhuanet.com, 13 Aug 2020; Weibo profile, 13 Aug 2020)

Athlete

Sport Studies - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CHN

English, Mandarin

Zhejiang Province [People's Republic of China]

Tao Jianrong [club, national], CHN

2012 for People's Republic of China (sports.sina.com.cn, 15 May 2013)

He suffered a strained muscle in his leg during the preliminary round of the 4x100m relay at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. He was forced to withdraw from the final round as a result. (sports.sina.com.cn, 07 Oct 2019)

He injured his ankle in the 4x100m relay at the 2018 Diamond League meet in London, England. The injury forced him to withdraw from the Asian Games in Indonesia the following month. (xinhuanet.com, 22 Jul 2019; sports.sina.com.cn, 07 Oct 2019)

He suffered a left hamstring injury during the 2017 World Championships in London, England. He recovered in time to compete a month later at the National Games in Tianjin, People's Republic of China. (sports.qq.com, 17 Aug 2017; sports.163.com, 03 Sep 2017; iaaf.org, 05 Sep 2017)

In 2008 he suffered a serious hip injury and did not return to competition until 2010. (zjnews.zjol.com.cn, 24 Nov 2015)

He took up athletics at age 13 at Shaoxing Sports School in the People's Republic of China. (szcb.zjol.com.cn, 19 Oct 2015)

His talent was noticed by coach Ying Shuigen. (cs.zjol.com.cn, 03 Sep 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to compete at the 2021 National Games in Shaanxi, People's Republic of China. (sports.xinhuanet.com, 13 Aug 2020; sports.xinhuanet.com, 14 Sep 2020; sports.sina.com.cn, 09 May 2021)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. (chinanews.com, 31 May 2012; tokyo2020.org, 19 Apr 2020)

He listens to music or reads during competitions to stay calm between events. (sports.qq.com, 31 Aug 2015)

He was a member of the 4x100m relay team that was named Best Team at the 2014 China Central Television [CCTV] Sports Personality of the Year awards in the People's Republic of China. The honour was in recognition of their gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea. (sports.163.com, 02 Feb 2015)