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Fu Mingxia www.famouschinese.com

Fu Mingxia, she was born on August 16, 1978 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. She is world top female diver, multiple Olympics gold medalist and world champion. She is about 1.58m tall. She won numerous world records in her remarkable diving career. Fu Mingxia's family appears to be a typical Chinese family consisting of her working-class parents and an elder sister. At an early age, Fu Mingxia learned to swim at a nearby river under the instruction of her father, Fu Yijun. She started gymnastics at age 5, and she soon switched to diving after she found gymnastics unsuitable for her due to her conditions.She trains very hard and is good in mental quality. Fu Mingxia left home at age 9 to train in Beijing. Fu Mingxia won her first world champion title in 1991 at the World Swimming Championships. At age 12,she became the youngest world champion ever.In 1992 at the 25th Olympic Games held in Barcelona, Fu Mingxia became the youngest Olympic champion ever when she won the 10-meter platform gold at the age of 13. That prompted the international governing body to rule divers must turn 14 by the year of Olympic, World Championship or World Cup competition to participate. She made a number of achievements after her two titles, including the 10-meter platform gold in both the 1993 and 1994 World Championships and the 3-meter springboard gold in the 95 World Championships. In 1996, when Fu Mingxia was 17 years old, she became the most dazzling star of Team China at the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta. Making history, she captured both the 10-meter platform gold and the 3-meter springboard gold at the Olympics. Thus she became the first woman to ever win both Olympic titles since the past 36 years. She was the first female diver to sweep both events at the same Olympics since Germany's Ingrid Kraemer in the 1960 Rome Olympics, and was only the 4th female to capture both titles. Awards and Accomplishments:

• 1990 Goodwill Games - 10m platform 1st (11 years old)
• 1991 World Swimming Championships - 10m platform 1st (12 years old)
• 1992 Olympic Games - 10m platform 1st (13 years old)
• 1993 World Swimming Championships - 10m platform 1st (14 years old)
• FINA Diving World Cup - 3m springboard 3rd (14 years old)
• 1994 World Swimming Championships - 10m platform 1st (15 years old)
• 1995 World Swimming Championships - 10m platform 2nd (16 years old)
• FINA Diving World Cup - 10m platform 2nd (17 years old)
• FINA Diving World Cup - 3m springboard 1st (17 years old)
• 1996 World Swimming Championships - 3m springboard 1st (17 years old)
• Olympic Games - 10m platform 1st (17 years old)
• Olympic Games - 3m springboard 1st (17 years old)
• 1999 University Games - 10m platform 1st (20 years old)
• University Games - 3m springboard 1st (20 years old)
• 2000 FINA Diving World Cup - 3m springboard 2nd (21 years old)
• Olympic Games - 3m springboard synchronized (with Guo Jingjing) 2nd (22 years old)
• Olympic Games - 3m springboard 1st (22 years old)