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Zheng Ninali
Personal information
Native name郑妮娜力
Birth nameNina Li Schultz
NationalityChinese
Born (1998-11-12) November 12, 1998 (age 26)
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
SportTrack
Event(s)Heptathlon
Pentathlon
College teamKansas State University
University of Georgia
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Heptathlon: 6358, Arona, Spain, 2021
Pentathlon: 4502, Lubbock, 2018[2]
Medal record
Representing  Canada
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast Heptathlon

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 6133 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 6358 which moved her into qualification for the Tokyo Olympic Games. [5]

Change of citizenship from Canada to China

Schultz became one of a handful of Naturalized athletes of China; after having renounced her Canadian citizenship to acquire a Chinese citizenship by naturalization, 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. [6]

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.[7] Her brother Ty Zheng Enlai is a hockey player in Canada.[8]

References

  1. ^ "2018 Gold Coast profile". 2018 Commonwealth Games. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  2. ^ "IAAF Profile". IAAF. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  3. ^ Vicki Hall (January 31, 2017). "The next Brianne Theisen-Eaton? Canadian teenager Nina Schultz vies for heptathlon greatness". National Post.
  4. ^ "Schultz comes up silver at Gold Coast". Bring On The Cats. April 13, 2018. Archived from the original on April 15, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  5. ^ "Zheng and Sykora take the spoils in Arona | REPORTS | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  6. ^ "Ninali ZHENG | Profile". worldathletics.org. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  7. ^ White, Johnathan (April 5, 2021). "Tokyo 2020: China's Nina Schultz aiming to fulfil grandma's Olympic dream". SCMP. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  8. ^ "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". 番茄資訊. February 18, 2021.
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