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Does anyone remember much about CHi Cheng, the Female sprinter from China? Was she a good starter or was she a good 200 runner?
Their always seemed to be an air of mystery about her.
Chi Cheng of Taiwan was the first Woman to run 100 yards in 10 seconds flat(the first Woman to run the 100yd dash in an 'even time') She accomplished this on June 13, 1970, in Portland, Oregon.
She was also named 1969 and 1970 World Female Athlete(Track) by Women's Track and Field World. Chi Cheng has been instrumental in arranging for the 2008 Olympic Games to be held in China.
She is very often referred to as the greatest Asian track and field athlete of the 20th Century.
She won the Bronze medal in the Women's 80mh at the Mexico City 1968 Olympic Games.
I'll find out what her PRs for the respective distances which she competed in.
Strange, i was about to post a topic about her, as i need an information:
She won the Pentathlon at the AAU Champs with 4823pts in 1968, and i need her results in each events. Can someone help?
Also, does someone know if the complete carrer record for Chi Cheng have ever been published?
6 5.5hjsteve:
Vince Reel did a couple of years ago, and he contributes a lot for women's athletics as we know today, at a time when most media ignored them, Track & Field News included.
Too much competitions surely caused her injury that kept her out for München'72 Games, where she could have been at least medalled at 100, 200 or 100mH.
From what i heard she was a rockett starter, but her 400m time showed incredible perspective.
Was Cheng's 10.0y an auto-timed 10.10? (If so, it would be equal c.10.97 100m, seven years before the first sub-11)
p.s. boy,was she cute,too. Enjoyed watching her.
Pierre-Jean wrote [Chi Cheng] "won the Pentathlon at the AAU Champs with 4823pts in 1968, and i need her results in each events. Can someone help?"
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80m hurdles 10.6 seconds
4-kilo Shot 36 fet 6-1/2 inches
High Jump 4 feet 10-1/4 inches
Long Jump 20 feet 5-3/4 inches
200m dash 23.7 seconds
The published 1968 results did not show metric measurements for the field events.
>Pierre-Jean wrote [Chi Cheng] "won the
>Pentathlon at the AAU Champs with 4823pts in
>1968, and i need her results in each events. Can
>someone help?"
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80m hurdles 10.6
>seconds
4-kilo Shot 36 fet 6-1/2 inches
High
>Jump 4 feet 10-1/4 inches
Long Jump 20
>feet 5-3/4 inches
200m dash 23.7
>seconds
The published 1968 results did not
>show metric measurements for the field
>events.
-- James Fields
The approximate metric meausremnets for Chi's Shot Putt, High Jump & Long Jump would be:
Chi Cheng's marriage to her coach was apparently a HUGE scandal in Nationalist China/Taiwan/ROC. It is fairly common in the US.ie Jackie and Bobby..
How was Chi Cheng voted the Asian athlete of teh century? What about CK Yang, Hwang Young Cho, Kitei Song (Nipponified as I cannot recall his Korean name), one of "Ma's Army"
As were Bob Kersee, Wolfgang Meier, Vladimir Paraschuk...
Thanks for the informations about her 1968 Pentathlon. I've always thought she had a big potential in multi-event, even with weaknesses at HJ and SP, she had the same profile than Rosendahl.
I was in Shanghai in September and on the TV was a movie about a girls track team, starring Chi Cheng. Of course it was all in Chinese, so I couldn't really follow it.
I was struck by Cheng's size and build in relation to the other girls in the movie. She was definitely larger and had a presence.
DOES anyone know if her 10.10y was FAT? (1970 AAU, Portland). If so, it certainly was ahead of its time, wr-wise. I'd guess it wasn't, as she had no 100m times of that quality. (But did have a low-altitude WR 11.22 , the following month)
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