Mi Na (athlete)
Mi Na (Chinese: 米娜; pinyin: Mǐ Nà; born August 5, 1986) is a Chinese Paralympic athlete who competes in throwing events for F37 classification cerebral palsy athletes.
Career
[edit]From April 2014 until September 2016 she held the women's F37 World Record in the shot put.[1] She holds the world record in the F37 discus throw. She won 9 medals (6 Gold) at the Paralympic Games and 12 medals (10 Gold) at the IPC Athletics World Championships.[2]
Mi began competing in para-athletics in 2005, and made her international debut in 2008.[3] She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, where she won gold medals in the women's shot put F37/F38 and discus throw F37/F38 events, setting new F37 world records both events. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, Mi repeated this double, winning the F37 shot put and F37 discus gold medals with world record throws.[4] She placed 4th in the F37/F38 javelin event at the 2012 Paralympics.[5] At the 2016 Rio Games she won the discus throw and placed second in the javelin and shot put.[6]
In 2017 she won the F37 discus and shot put events at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Beijing.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "IPC Athletics World Records – Women's Shot Put". Retrieved 20 April 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "IPC Athletics World Records – Women's Discus Throw". Retrieved 20 April 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "IPC Athlete Profile – Mi Na". Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ "Na Mi". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ "London 2012 Paralympic Games Athletics Women's Javelin F37/38". Archived from the original on 2014-04-22.
- ^ Na Mi Archived 2016-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ Etchells, Daniel (14 May 2017). "Wang breaks another world record as China continue to shine at World Para Athletics Grand Prix". Inside the Games. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
External links
[edit]- Mi Na at the International Paralympic Committee
- Mi Na at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- 1986 births
- Paralympic athletes for China
- Paralympic gold medalists for China
- Paralympic silver medalists for China
- Living people
- Chinese female shot putters
- Chinese female discus throwers
- World record holders in para-athletics
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships
- World Para Athletics Championships winners
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 21st-century Chinese sportswomen
- Chinese athletics biography stubs
- Chinese Paralympic medalist stubs