Granddaughter of the first Chinese athlete who broke the world record returns to China and wins gold in Asian Games for China

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Granddaughter of the first Chinese athlete who broke the world record returns to China and wins gold in Asian Games for China

Nina Schultz (Chinese: 郑妮娜力; pinyin: Zhèng Nīnàlì; born November 12, 1998) is a Chinese track athlete who competes in the heptathlon and pentathlon. She was a Canadian citizen at birth and previously competed for Canada.

Schultz competed as part of the Canadian team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia. She was the youngest member of the Canadian track and field team. In the heptathlon event, she set a new personal best of 6,133 points and won the silver medal, finishing 122 points behind gold medalist Katarina Johnson-Thompson of England.

Change of citizenship from Canada to China​

Schultz became one of a handful of naturalized athletes of China; the athlete served a three year waiting period in compliance of the IAAF competition rules. World Athletics confirmed her eligibility to be a competing member of China's national team on April 12, 2021.

Her maternal grandmother Zheng Fengrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Fengrong) , who in 1957 set the women's world record in high jump 1.77m and is a celebrated athlete in China. Her brother Ty Schultz is a hockey player in Canada.

 

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In recent years a horde of "Eilleen Gu" come back to China and compete for China in various international sports events, over half of China's men's and women's ice hockey national teams players are blonds, claiming they are kind of related to some Chinese ancesters several generations ago...

 

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Granddaughter of the first Chinese athlete who broke the world record returns to China and wins gold in Asian Games for China

Nina Schultz (Chinese: 郑妮娜力; pinyin: Zhèng Nīnàlì; born November 12, 1998) is a Chinese track athlete who competes in the heptathlon and pentathlon. She was a Canadian citizen at birth and previously competed for Canada.

Schultz competed as part of the Canadian team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia. She was the youngest member of the Canadian track and field team. In the heptathlon event, she set a new personal best of 6,133 points and won the silver medal, finishing 122 points behind gold medalist Katarina Johnson-Thompson of England.

Change of citizenship from Canada to China​

Schultz became one of a handful of naturalized athletes of China; the athlete served a three year waiting period in compliance of the IAAF competition rules. World Athletics confirmed her eligibility to be a competing member of China's national team on April 12, 2021.

Her maternal grandmother Zheng Fengrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Fengrong) , who in 1957 set the women's world record in high jump 1.77m and is a celebrated athlete in China. Her brother Ty Schultz is a hockey player in Canada.

It's not easy for some one to change their nationalities to compete for another country. On the day of her 20th birthday, she submitted the request to the Olympic Committee to change her nationality from Canada to China, in doing this, she paid the price of not being able to participate any international sports events for 3 years.

 

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First golds at an Asian Games for China's Individual and Team Eventers

Team China made history for Chinese equestrian sport as the eventing competition at the 19th Asian Games concluded by winning gold in both the individual and team events. This is the first time that the Chinese team or an individual has won a gold since equestrian sport was introduced at the...

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