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Two Yichang Female Athletes to Leave for London Olympic Games
2012-07-16 17:12:25

The name list of the athletes of the 30th Olympic Games Chinese sports delegation was officially announced on July 10th, in which there include two female athletes from Yichang——Zhou Jun, a member of the Chinese Weightlifting Team and Zhao Yunlei, a member of the Chinese Badminton Team.

Zhou Jun, the 20-year-old girl, was born in Zigui County, Yichang City. She was enrolled in the sports school of Zigui County in June, 2004, and entered the sport school of Yichang City later. She, in February, 2009, was chosen to be a member of the provincial weightlifting team of Hubei, and two years later was taken as a member of the national weightlifting team. In 2010, she left for the Kyrgyz Republic to compete in the Youth Weightlifting Tournament as a delegate of the national team and won three 53kg weightlifting gold medals of clean and jerk, snatch and total results.

Zhao Yunlei is 26 and was born in Yichang. She joined in the national badminton team in 2003. She is a women\'s and mixed doubles badminton player; exactly, she with Zhang Nan is ranked world number one in the mixed doubles and with Tian Qin is ranked world number two in women\'s doubles. With her partners she won the mixed doubles and was ranked second of women’s doubles in the 2011 BWF World Championships; in 2011 and 2012, Zhao, as the major member of the Chinese team won the the Sudirman Cup Championship held in Qingdao and the Uber Cup Finals held in Wuhan respectively.

The 30th Summer Olympic Games will be held in London, UK during July 27th to August 12th , and the Chinese delegation includes 621 delegates in total, among which 396 are athletes.