Tang Xingqiang

Tang Xingqiang (Chinese: 汤星强; born 11 August 1995) is a Chinese track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 metres. He represented his country at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.

Tang Xingqiang

Tang in 2017
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(1995-08-11) 11 August 1995 (age 29) Zhouning County, Fujian, China
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	100 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best	100 m: 10.22 (2021)
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m relay IAAF World Relays 2017 Nassau 4×100 m relay Asian Championships 2017 Bhubaneswar 4×100 m relay

Career

He made his international senior debut at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, competing in the 200 metres and reaching the semi-finals.^[2]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he led off a Chinese 4 × 100 metres relay quartet including Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, and Zhang Peimeng. The team set an Asian record of 37.82 seconds in qualifying and finished fourth in the final. The record was quickly broken by Japan in the following relay heat.^[3][4] In the 2020 Summer Olympics, he also led off the same Chinese relay quartet, with Zhang replaced with Wu Zhiqiang, winning a bronze medal and equaling the Chinese record set at the 2019 World Championships.^[5][6][7]

Personal bests

• 60 metres – 6.56 (2016)
• 100 metres – 10.22 (2021)
• 200 metres – 20.39 (2021)
• 200 metres indoor – 22.00 (2016)
• 4 × 100 metres relay – 37.79 (2021)

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	11th (sf)	200 m	21.06
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4th	4 × 100 m relay	37.90
2017	IAAF World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	39.22
			6th	4 × 200 m relay	1:22.91
	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	8th (sf)	100 m	10.431
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	39.38
2020	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	37.79 =NR
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	12th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	38.83

¹Disqualified in the final