Nina Schultz: Difference between revisions

Zheng Ninali
Personal information
Native name	郑妮娜力
Birth name	Nina Li Schultz
Nationality	Chinese
Born	November 12, 1998 (age 26); New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track
Event(s)	Heptathlon; Pentathlon
College team	Kansas State University; University of Georgia
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Heptathlon: 6358, Arona, Spain, 2021; Pentathlon: 4502, Lubbock, US, 2018
Medal record
Representing China
Asian Games
Representing Canada
Commonwealth Games

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Inline

Latest revision as of 04:07, 5 April 2024

Nina Schultz (Chinese: 郑妮娜力; pinyin: Zhèng Nīnàlì; born November 12, 1998) is a Chinese track athlete who competes in the heptathlon and pentathlon. She was a Canadian citizen at birth and previously competed for Canada.

Career

Schultz began training in athletics from a young age, and set a junior record in the indoor pentathlon in 2017 prior to being accepted to Kansas State University on a track scholarship.^[3] In her debut season in university athletics, Schultz won the bronze medal in the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships' pentathlon event. At the 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships, she won the silver medal. At the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships she placed 7th in the heptathlon scoring 5,778 points.

Schultz competed as part of the Canadian team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia. She was the youngest member of the Canadian track and field team. In the heptathlon event, she set a new personal best of 6,133 points and won the silver medal, finishing 122 points behind gold medalist Katarina Johnson-Thompson of England.^[4]

Schultz returned to the competitive scene in 2021 under the Chinese flag to increase her personal best by over 200 points at the Spanish leg of the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events. The athlete, now competing as Ninali Zheng, won the meeting with a score of 6,358 which moved her into qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[5]

Change of citizenship from Canada to China

Schultz became one of a handful of naturalized athletes of China; the athlete served a three year waiting period in compliance of the IAAF competition rules. World Athletics confirmed her eligibility to be a competing member of China's national team on April 12, 2021.^[2]

The Chinese press quoted her maternal grandmother Zheng Fengrong, who in 1957 set the women's world record in high jump 1.77m and is a celebrated athlete in China.^[6] Her brother Ty Schultz is a hockey player in Canada.^[7]

References

^ "Athletics | Athlete Profile: Nina SCHULTZ". 2018 Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Ninali ZHENG | Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
^ Hall, Vicki (January 31, 2017). "The next Brianne Theisen-Eaton? Canadian teenager Nina Schultz vies for heptathlon greatness". National Post. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
^ wildcat00 (April 13, 2018). "Schultz comes up silver at Gold Coast". Bring On The Cats. Archived from the original on April 15, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Valiente, Emeterio (June 14, 2021). Zheng and Sykora take the spoils in Arona (Report). World Athletics. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
^ White, Johnathan (April 5, 2021). "Tokyo 2020: China's Nina Schultz aiming to fulfil grandma's Olympic dream". South China Morning Post. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
^ Shi, Futian (March 9, 2018). "Trolling for overseas talent". China Daily. Retrieved August 11, 2021.

External links

Nina Schultz at Athletics Canada (archive)
Zheng Ninali at World Athletics
Zheng Ninali at Olympics.com
Zheng Ninali at Olympedia (archive)

[2018CG-1] "Athletics | Athlete Profile: Nina SCHULTZ". 2018 Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.

[WAprofile-2] "Ninali ZHENG | Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved July 15, 2021.

[2017NP-3] Hall, Vicki (January 31, 2017). "The next Brianne Theisen-Eaton? Canadian teenager Nina Schultz vies for heptathlon greatness". National Post. Retrieved August 11, 2021.

[20180413BOTC-4] wildcat00 (April 13, 2018). "Schultz comes up silver at Gold Coast". Bring On The Cats. Archived from the original on April 15, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[5] Valiente, Emeterio (June 14, 2021). Zheng and Sykora take the spoils in Arona (Report). World Athletics. Retrieved July 15, 2021.

[White-6] White, Johnathan (April 5, 2021). "Tokyo 2020: China's Nina Schultz aiming to fulfil grandma's Olympic dream". South China Morning Post. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[7] Shi, Futian (March 9, 2018). "Trolling for overseas talent". China Daily. Retrieved August 11, 2021.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{Short description|Chinese track athlete}}
+{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2021}}
 {{Infobox athlete
-| name = Zheng Ninali 郑妮娜力
+| name = Zheng Ninali
+| native_name = 郑妮娜力
+| native_name_lang = zh-hans
 | birth_name = Nina Li Schultz
 | nationality = [[China|Chinese]]
 | image =
 | imagesize =
 | caption =
 | sport = [[Track and field|Track]]
-| event  = [[Heptathlon]]<br>[[Pentathlon]]
+| event = [[Heptathlon]]<br />[[Pentathlon]]
-| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1998|11|12}}
+| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1998|11|12}}
 | birth_place = [[New Westminster]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]
+| collegeteam = [[Kansas State University]]<br />[[University of Georgia]]
-| residence = [[China]]
-| collegeteam = [[Kansas State University]]<br>[[University of Georgia]]
 | coach =
-| height = 178 cm<ref name=2018CG>{{cite web|title=2018 Gold Coast profile|url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6030302-nina-schultz.htm|publisher=[[2018 Commonwealth Games]]|accessdate=2018-04-11|archive-date=2018-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412145641/https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6030302-nina-schultz.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
+| height = 178 cm<ref name="2018CG">{{cite web|title=Athletics {{!}} Athlete Profile: Nina SCHULTZ |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6030302-nina-schultz.htm|publisher=[[2018 Commonwealth Games]]|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-date=April 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412145641/https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6030302-nina-schultz.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | weight = 62 kg
-| pb = '''[[Heptathlon]]''': 6133, [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]], 2018<br>'''[[Pentathlon]]''': 4502, [[Lubbock]], 2018<ref>{{cite web |title=IAAF Profile |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/nina-schultz-292955 |website=[[IAAF]] |accessdate=2018-04-11 |archive-date=2018-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412211955/https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/nina-schultz-292955 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+| pb = '''[[Heptathlon]]''': 6358, [[Arona, Tenerife|Arona]], Spain, 2021<ref name="WAprofile">{{Cite web|title=Ninali ZHENG {{!}} Profile|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/pr-of-china/nina-schultz-14630310|publisher=[[World Athletics]]|access-date=July 15, 2021}}</ref><br />'''[[Pentathlon]]''': 4502, [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]], US, 2018<ref name="WAprofile" />
 | updated =
 | medaltemplates =
-{{MedalCountry| {{CAN}} }}
+{{Medal|Country|{{CHN}}}}
+{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Games]]}}
+{{MedalGold|[[2022 Asian Games|2022 Hangzhou]]|[[Athletics at the 2022 Asian Games – Women's heptathlon|Heptathlon]]}}
+{{Medal|Country|{{CAN}}}}
 {{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}
 {{MedalSilver|[[2018 Commonwealth Games|2018 Gold Coast]]|[[Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's heptathlon|Heptathlon]]}}
-}}'''Nina Schultz''' ({{Lang-zh|c=|s=郑妮娜力|t=|p=Zhèng Nīnàlì}}; born 12 November 1998), is a Chinese track athlete who competes in the [[heptathlon]] and [[pentathlon]]. She was a Canadian citizen at birth and previously competed for Canada.
+}}
+'''Nina Schultz''' ({{Lang-zh|s=郑妮娜力|p=Zhèng Nīnàlì}}; born November 12, 1998) is a Chinese track athlete who competes in the [[heptathlon]] and [[pentathlon]]. She was a Canadian citizen at birth and previously competed for Canada.
 ==Career==
-Schultz began training in athletics from a young age, and set a junior record in the indoor pentathlon in 2017 prior to being accepted to [[Kansas State University]] on a track scholarship.<ref name=2017NP>{{cite web|author=Vicki Hall|title=The next Brianne Theisen-Eaton? Canadian teenager Nina Schultz vies for heptathlon greatness|url=https://nationalpost.com/sports/olympics/the-next-brianne-theisen-eaton-canadian-teenager-nina-schultz-vies-for-heptathlon-greatness|publisher=[[National Post]]|date=2017-01-31}}</ref>  In her debut season in university athletics, Schultz won the bronze medal in the [[2017 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships|2017 NCAA Indoor Championships]]' [[2017 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships#Pentathlon|pentathlon event]].  At the [[2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships#Pentathlon|2018 NCAA Indoor Championships]], she won the silver medal.  At the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships she placed 7th in the Heptathlon scoring 5,778 points.
+Schultz began training in athletics from a young age, and set a junior record in the indoor pentathlon in 2017 prior to being accepted to [[Kansas State University]] on a track scholarship.<ref name="2017NP">{{cite news|last=Hall|first=Vicki |title=The next Brianne Theisen-Eaton? Canadian teenager Nina Schultz vies for heptathlon greatness|url=https://nationalpost.com/sports/olympics/the-next-brianne-theisen-eaton-canadian-teenager-nina-schultz-vies-for-heptathlon-greatness|work=[[National Post]]|date=January 31, 2017|access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref> In her debut season in university athletics, Schultz won the bronze medal in the [[2017 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships|2017 NCAA Indoor Championships]]' pentathlon event. At the [[2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships#Pentathlon|2018 NCAA Indoor Championships]], she won the silver medal. At the [[2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships]] she placed 7th in the heptathlon scoring 5,778 points.
-Schultz competed as part of the Canadian team at the [[2018 Commonwealth Games]] in the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]], [[Australia]].  She was the youngest member of the Canadian track and field team.  In the [[Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's heptathlon|heptathlon event]], she set a new personal best of 6133 points and won the silver medal, finishing 122 points behind gold medalist [[Katarina Johnson-Thompson]] of  [[Scotland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games|England]].<ref name=20180413BOTC>{{cite web|title=Schultz comes up silver at Gold Coast|url=https://www.bringonthecats.com/2018/4/13/17233452/kansas-state-track-commonwealth-games-heptathlon-nina-schultz-silver-medal-news|publisher=Bring On The Cats|date=2018-04-13|access-date=2018-04-15|archive-date=2018-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415190320/https://www.bringonthecats.com/2018/4/13/17233452/kansas-state-track-commonwealth-games-heptathlon-nina-schultz-silver-medal-news|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Schultz competed as part of the Canadian team at the [[2018 Commonwealth Games]] in the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]], Australia. She was the youngest member of the Canadian track and field team. In the [[Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's heptathlon|heptathlon event]], she set a new personal best of 6,133 points and won the silver medal, finishing 122 points behind gold medalist [[Katarina Johnson-Thompson]] of England.<ref name="20180413BOTC">{{cite web|author=wildcat00 |title=Schultz comes up silver at Gold Coast|url=https://www.bringonthecats.com/2018/4/13/17233452/kansas-state-track-commonwealth-games-heptathlon-nina-schultz-silver-medal-news|publisher=Bring On The Cats|date=April 13, 2018|access-date=April 15, 2018|archive-date=April 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415190320/https://www.bringonthecats.com/2018/4/13/17233452/kansas-state-track-commonwealth-games-heptathlon-nina-schultz-silver-medal-news|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Schultz returned to the competitive scene in 2021 under the Chinese flag to increase her personal best by over 200 points at the Spanish leg of the [[World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events]]. The athlete, now competing as Ninali Zheng, won the meeting with a score of 6,358 which moved her into [[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification|qualification]] for the [[2020 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite report|last=Valiente|first=Emeterio |date=June 14, 2021|title=Zheng and Sykora take the spoils in Arona |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-challenge-combined-events/news/arona-zheng-ninali-jiri-sykora|publisher=World Athletics|access-date=July 15, 2021}}</ref>
-===Change of Citizenship from Canada to China===
-Schultz became one of a handful of [[Naturalized athletes of China]]; World Athletics confirmed her eligibility to be a competing member of China's national team on 12 April, 2021, after having renounced her Canadian citizenship and acquired Chinese citizenship by naturalization.<ref name=move>{{cite news |title=Rising Canadian athlete switches citizenship, hoping to compete for China in Tokyo Olympics |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rising-canadian-athlete-switches-citizenship-hoping-to-compete-for-china-in-tokyo-olympics |website=[[The National Post]] |date=April 1, 2021}}</ref> The move came at a time of deteriorating China-Canada international relations and was met with some shock in Canada.<ref name=defection/> Schultz did not provide a comment to Canadian media in regard to the change but did comment to a Chinese newspaper that "I came here not out of a sudden impulse, but because I always wanted to fulfill my grandmother’s dream."<ref name=defection/> At the same time Schultz stopped competing for her [[NCAA]] [[Kansas State University]] and [[University of Georgia]] college teams. She had told Petros Kyprianou, her Georgia team coach that "she just wanted to move on from the NCAA and be a professional athlete. That’s all [he knew].”<ref name=move/>
+===Change of citizenship from Canada to China===
-The Chinese press quoted her maternal grandmother [[Zheng Fengrong]], who in 1957 set the Women's World Record in [[High Jump]] 1.77m and is a celebrated athlete in China.<ref name="White">{{cite web |url=https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3128341/tokyo-2020-chinas-nina-schultz-aiming-fulfil-grandmas-olympic-dream |title=Tokyo 2020: China’s Nina Schultz aiming to fulfil grandma’s Olympic dream|last=White |first=Johnathan |date=5 April 2021|work=[[SCMP]] |accessdate=8 April 2021}}</ref> Her brother Ty Zheng Enlai is a hockey player in Canada.<ref name=background>{{cite news |title=加拿大體壇兄妹共入中國籍，其姥姥背景深厚，曾獲毛主席親自接見 |url=https://www.mffsoc.com/sport/619380658.html |website=[[番茄資訊]] |date=February 18, 2021}}</ref>
+Schultz became one of a handful of [[naturalized athletes of China]]; the athlete served a three year waiting period in compliance of the IAAF competition rules. [[World Athletics]] confirmed her eligibility to be a competing member of China's national team on April 12, 2021.<ref name="WAprofile" />
+The Chinese press quoted her maternal grandmother [[Zheng Fengrong]], who in 1957 set the women's world record in [[high jump]] 1.77m and is a celebrated athlete in China.<ref name="White">{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3128341/tokyo-2020-chinas-nina-schultz-aiming-fulfil-grandmas-olympic-dream |title=Tokyo 2020: China's Nina Schultz aiming to fulfil grandma's Olympic dream|last=White |first=Johnathan |date=April 5, 2021|work=[[South China Morning Post]] |access-date=April 8, 2021}}</ref> Her brother [[Ty Schultz]] is a hockey player in Canada.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shi|first=Futian |url=http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201803/09/WS5aa1e061a3106e7dcc1408fc.html |title=Trolling for overseas talent |work=[[China Daily]] |date=March 9, 2018|access-date=August 11, 2021}}</ref>
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
+==External links==
+* {{Athletics Canada|nina-schultz|Nina Schultz}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20180620030304/https://athletics.ca/national-team/our-team/425798/ archive])
+* {{World Athletics|14630310|Zheng Ninali}}
+* {{Olympics.com|ninali-zheng|Zheng Ninali}}
+* {{Olympedia|141636|Zheng Ninali}}
+{{Footer Asian Games Champions Heptathlon Women}}
+{{Footer Asian Indoor Champions women's pentathlon}}
 {{Authority control}}
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Schultz, Nina}}
 [[Category:1998 births]]
+[[Category:Living people]]
 [[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games]]
+[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics]]
 [[Category:Chinese heptathletes]]
 [[Category:Chinese pentathletes]]
-[[Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada]]
+[[Category:Chinese people of Canadian descent]]
-[[Category:Sportspeople from New Westminster]]
-[[Category:Living people]]
 [[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics]]
+[[Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada]]
 [[Category:Kansas State Wildcats women's track and field athletes]]
-[[Category:Chinese people of Canadian descent]]
+[[Category:Naturalized citizens of the People's Republic of China]]
+[[Category:Sportspeople from New Westminster]]
+[[Category:Olympic athletes for China]]
+[[Category:Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games]]
+[[Category:Naturalised athletes]]
+[[Category:Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games]]
+[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for China]]
+[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
+[[Category:Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winners]]

v t e Asian Games champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon
1966: Michiko Okamoto (JPN) 1970: Esther Roth-Shahamorov (ISR) 1974: Kyoko Shimizu (JPN) 1978–1982: Ye Peisu (CHN) 1986: Zhu Yuqing (CHN) 1990: Ma Miaolan (CHN) 1994: Ghada Shouaa (SYR) 1998–2002: Shen Shengfei (CHN) 2006: Olga Rypakova (KAZ) 2010: Yuliya Tarasova (UZB) 2014: Ekaterina Voronina (UZB) 2018: Swapna Barman (IND) 2022: Zheng Ninali (CHN)
1966–1978: Pentathlon • 1982–present: Heptathlon