Zhou Yu (canoeist)
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| Nationality |
 China | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
23 January 1989 Anshan, Liaoning, China | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Hunan Sports Club[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Wu Yubiao[1] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zhou Yu (simplified Chinese: 周玉; traditional Chinese: 週玉; pinyin: Zhōu Yù; born January 23, 1989 in Anshan, Liaoning) is a Chinese sprint canoeist.[1][2] She won gold and silver medal in the women's kayak singles (both 200 and 500 m) at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.[3][4] Zhou is also a member of Hunan Sports Club, there she is coached and trained by Wu Yubiao.[1]
Zhou represented China at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in both the women's kayak singles and doubles. For her first event, the women's K-2 500 metres, Zhou and her partner Wu Yanan narrowly missed out of the Olympic medal in the A-final by nearly fourteen hundredths of a second (0.14) behind the Polish pair Karolina Naja and Beata Mikołajczyk, posting their time of 1:44.136.[5] Three days later, Zhou barely advanced to the semi-final rounds of the first ever women's K-1 200 metres, after finishing sixth and attaining a qualified time of 42.885 seconds in the heats.[6] Unfortunately, Zhou fell short in her bid for the final by seven hundredths of a second (0.07) behind Slovenia's Špela Ponomarenko, with a time of 42.279 seconds.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Zhou Yu". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Zhou Yu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "China's Zhou Yu wins women's kayak single 500m gold at Asiad". Xinhua News Agency. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Asian Games: S'pore kayakers finish in top 10 of K1 and K2". Channel News Asia. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final A". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m Semifinal 1". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.