Gong Xiangyu ( Chinese: 龚翔宇 , pinyin : Gōng Xiángyu , English; Gong Xiangyu ; born April 21, 1997 , Lianyungang , Jiangsu Province, China ) is a Chinese volleyball player . Diagonal striker. Olympic champion 2016 .
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| Full name | Gong Xiangyu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A country |  China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specialization | volleyball (diagonal striker) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Jiangsu Zenit Steel Changzhou (since 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 186 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Gong Xiangyu was born into a sports family. Her father, Gong Xinhua, was a member of the Jiangsu basketball national team, her mother, Wei Jiaping, won the high jump competitions at the People’s Games of China in Beijing . Gong Xiangyu started playing volleyball at the age of 12 at a sports school in Jiangsu Province. Until 2014, it was a connecting role and, as such, as part of the Chinese junior team, won the “silver” of the Asian Championship (in 2012) and the “gold” of the World Championship (in 2013) among girls. In 2014, the volleyball player was transferred to the position of a diagonal striker and in the same year she became the Asian champion as part of the country's youth team, and the next year she participated in the youth world championship .
Since 2015, Gong Xiangyu has been a player of the Jiangsu Zenit Steel team, with whom she won the Chinese Championship medals three times, including the gold medals in 2017.
In 2016, Gong Xiangyu was included in the national team of China , which in the same year became the Olympic champion and winner of the Asian Cup , and the next - the owner of the World Champions Cup . In addition, in 2016 the volleyball player became the winner of the Montreux Will Masters , and in 2017 she became the bronze medalist and was recognized as the best diagonal striker in both tournaments.
Achievements
With clubs
- champion of China 2017;
- silver (2016) and bronze (2018) winner of the championships of China.
With China
- Olympic champion 2016 .
- 2018 World Championship bronze medalist
- 2017 World Cup Champion .
- Bronze medalist of the League of Nations 2018 .
- 2018 Asian Games Champion.
- winner of the Asian Cup 2016 .
- 2014 Asian champion among youth teams.
- 2013 world champion among girls .
- Silver medalist of the Asian Championship among girls 2012.
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References and Sources
- jstx.org (China)
- Profile on the FIVB website (eng.)