Height 1.72 m Sport Athletics Weight 65 kg | Name Su Bingtian Role Track and field athlete | |
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Born 29 August 1989 (age 34) ( 1989-08-29 ) Zhongshan, China | ||
China s su bingtian first asian born to beat 100m 10 second barrier
Su Bingtian (simplified Chinese: 苏炳添; traditional Chinese: 蘇炳添; pinyin: Sū Bǐngtiān, born 29 August 1989) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the sprints. He is the reigning Asian champion over 100 metres, was a semi-finalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a finalist at the 2015 and 2017 World Championships.
Contents
- China s su bingtian first asian born to beat 100m 10 second barrier
- Su Bingtian Sprinting Montage
- Career
- Personal bests
- Sub 10 second 100 meters record
- References
Su holds Asian record in the 60 metres (6.50 seconds). He has also won medals at the Summer Universiade and the Asian Games.
Su Bingtian - Sprinting Montage | 苏炳添
Career
He broke onto the continental scene with three straight wins in the 100 metres on the Asian Grand Prix in May 2009. His first medal came in the 4×100 metres relay at the 11th Chinese Games later that year, where he helped the Guangdong team including Liang Jiahong and Wen Yongyi to the gold medal.
He also began representing China internationally that year and shortly after the national games he won the gold medal over 60 metres at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games, running a personal best of 6.65 seconds. He was selected for the relay at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships and won a silver medal alongside Guo Fan, Liang Jiahong and Zhang Peimeng. He took the individual 100 m title at the East Asian Games, defeating Japanese rival Shintaro Kimura.
He equalled the Chinese indoor record in the 60 m in Chengdu in 2010, running 6.58 seconds. At the 2010 Asian Games he won the relay gold with a national and Games record time.
In March 2011, he set a new Chinese national 60 metres indoor record in Chengdu with a time of 6.56 seconds. He went on to establish himself as his country's top male sprinter that year: he won the 100 m title at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships in a personal best of 10.21 seconds, was the bronze medalist at the 2011 Summer Universiade, then competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu (running in the heats of the relay). He ended the season by breaking the Chinese record to win the 100 m at the Chinese Athletics Championships with a time of 10.16 seconds, improving upon Zhou Wei and Chen Haijian's former best mark.
In 2012 he was a 60 m semi-finalist at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a 100 m semi-finalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He ran a wind-aided (+2.9 m/s) 10.04 seconds at the start of the outdoor season and ended it by defending his national title in the 100 m. With the Chinese relay team he ran national records twice that season, timing 38.71 seconds in May and improving to 38.38 seconds with Guo Fan, Liang Jiahong and Zhang Peimeng in the heats of the Olympics.
His 2013 began with two 60 m national records in Nanjing, where he ran 6.56 seconds and then 6.55 seconds. Zhang Peimeng beat Su's 100 m national record in May 2013, but Su responded with a personal best of 10.06 seconds at the IAAF World Challenge Beijing.
On May 30, 2015, at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, Su clocked 9.99 seconds in the 100m, becoming the first Asian-born athlete to achieve a sub-10 second clocking, widely considered the standard of elite status sprinting.
On 23 August 2015, he reached the final of the 100m at the World Championships in Beijing with a time of 9.99 seconds in his semi-final. In the final, he finished his race with the time 10.06 in position 9th.
On 27 May 2017, Su once again achieved a sub-10 second time in the 100m at the 2017 Prefontaine Classic with a personal best 9.92 seconds. However, the tailwind (+2.4 M/S) was above the allowed limit of 2.0 M/S, therefore the time does not count as a national record or personal best.