ZHANG Changning

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2018	Japan

World Grand Prix

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2017

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2019	Japan

Grand Champions Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2017	Japan

Baobao [means 'Baby' in Chinese]. (sports.sohu.com, 20 Mar 2017; sohu.com, 05 Oct 2019; sports.sina.com.cn, 11 Nov 2020)

Writing poems, listening to music, webcasting, beach volleyball. (zhuanlan.zhihu.com, 10 Feb 2019; sohu.com, 11 Oct 2019; Weibo profile, 18 Jan 2020)

Athlete, Student

Nanjing Sport Institute, People's Republic of China

Partner Wu Guanxi

Mandarin

Jiangsu Zhongtian Steel [People's Republic of China]

Cai Bin [club], CHN; Lang Ping [national], CHN

Wing spiker (volleychina.org, 14 Dec 2019; sohu.com, 16 Jan 2020)

Her father Zhang Yousheng and older brother Zhang Chen have both represented the People's Republic of China in volleyball. Her brother won bronze at the 2015 Asian Championships in Tehran, Iran, while her father competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Her partner Wu Guanxi has represented the People's Republic of China in basketball, and competed at the 2013 U19 World Championships in the Czech Republic. (sports.163.com, 15 May 2014; sohu.com, 05 Oct 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 10 Feb 2020)

She won a silver medal alongside Ma Yuanyuan at the 2011 Asian Beach Volleyball Championships in Haikou, People's Republic of China. (sports.takungpao.com, 10 May 2015; SportsDeskOnline, 10 Feb 2020)

She was forced to withdraw from the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia due to a knee injury. (backchina.com, 17 Aug 2018)

Chinese Volleyball Super League [CHN] (bjnews.com.cn, 17 Oct 2019; volleychina.org, 14 Dec 2019)

She began playing volleyball at age eight in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. (sports.takungpao.com, 10 May 2015; chinanews.com, 05 May 2014)

Volleyball was a popular sport in her family. (sports.163.com, 15 May 2014)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and the 2021 National Games of the People's Republic of China. (sports.sina.com.cn, 04 Jan 2020; sohu.com, 19 May 2020; sports.sina.com.cn, 11 Nov 2020)

Chinese volleyball player Lu Weizhong, Chinese volleyball player [and father] Zhang Yousheng, Chinese volleyball player [and brother] Zhang Chen. (sports.gmw.cn, 22 Oct 2014; sohu.com, 15 Oct 2017, 02 Apr 2020)

She was named the 2019 Influential Sportsman of the Year at the Sports Star Force Starway Night Awards Ceremony. (sports.sina.com.cn, 23 Dec 2019)

She was named the Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the 2016/17 Chinese Volleyball Super League. (sports.sina.com.cn, 03 Feb 2017)

In 2016 she was named an Elite Athlete of International Class by the General Administration of Sport of China. (sports.163.com, 05 Apr 2016)