Another Asia's first: Chinese won a medal of men's long jump at the world athletics championships

[AndrewJin]

Tonight at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, the Olympic champion Britain's Greg Rutherford won his first world championship title, Fabrice Lapierre of Australia overtook two Chinese jumpers with his fifth attempt and took silver. Wang Jianan took bronze with Chinese teammates Gao Xinglong and Li Jinzhe placing fourth and fifth.

This is the first time an Asian long jump athlete
stood on the World championship podium.
Congrats!

 

[TaiShang]

 

[seven7seven]

Great to see Chinese athletes are getting to World Elite standards. With more professionalism and funding entering into sports, that are not traditionally competed in by China, you're going to see more and more Chinese athletes competing for the top prizes in them. Go China!!

 

[opruh]

Take note that there are three Chinese finalists in the long jump event.

 

[Tractor]

Take note that there are three Chinese finalists in the long jump event.

This means less players of long jumping world wide some how,just like womanish badminton?

 

[Jlaw]

we just need to send a highly trained Shaolin master if we want gold in long jump

 

[mike2000 is back]

Great our athlete won.
Good to see GREAT BRITAIN among the world's top contenders always .

We are second so far, with a couple medal hopeful left.

World Championships 2015: Medal table, results, GB medallists - BBC Sport


Looks like the U.S had its worae performance so far.

 

[Keel]

The final Medal Table and the Best records of Team China in 22 years:

15th IAAF World Championships Medal Table - iaaf.org

The final Placing Table

15th IAAF World Championships Placing Table - iaaf.org

Thank you Team China Athletes for a great performance
Thank you IAAF, Beijing organisers, all the fans and volunteers and thank you athletes and officials from participating countries.
Thank you Beijing!
See you in 2017 !
- in Doha or London
2017 World Championships in Athletics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Beidou2020]

China needs to do even better at the Olympics.

Olympics is the one that determines who the number 1 sports power is.

 

[AndrewJin]

China needs to do even better at the Olympics.

Olympics is the one that determines who the number 1 sports power is.

We'll see.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]