LiuXiang,a Shanghai native,was born on July 13,1983.His height is 188 cm,weight 75 kg.Singing and computer are his hobbies.In March,1999,he entered Shanghai Track and Field Team.and one year later,he was admitted to the National Youth Team.Sun Haiping has been training him.In 2002,he won the gold medals in the men's 110m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in England.At the Athens Olympic Games on August 27,2004,Liu won the men's 110m hurdles final in 12.91 seconds,equaling the world record set and breaking the Olympic record.
We all sincerely hope that he will get better in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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As a child,Liu Xiang was a high jumper until his sports school asked him to give up the event because a bone test showed that he would not grow tall enough to become a world-class jumper.He began training as a hurdler in 1998.In 2002 Liu broke Renaldo Nehemiah's 24-year-old world junior record for the 110m hurdles.The following year he earned a bronze medal at the World Championships of Athletics and stamped himself as a medal contender for the 2004 Olympics,although he was not considered a favourite for the gold.However,in the final,Liu's technique was nearly perfect as he barely touched the sixth hurdle and cleared all of the others cleanly.He powered to a victory of almost three metres.In so doing,he tied the 11-year-old world record of 12.91 seconds.Liu was the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics.Only 21 years old at the time of his victory,Liu vowed to defend his title when the Olympics come to Beijing in 2008.
Liu Xiang (Simplified Chinese:劉翔,pinyin:Liú Xiáng) (born July 13,1983 in Shanghai,China) is a hurdling athlete.
In 2002,Liu launched his career in fine style by winning the first IAAF Grand Prix in Lausanne with a world youth and Asian record time of 13.12 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles.
He has since made the finals at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics (twice); two of the three cases has seen American hurdling great Allen Johnson take the major prize,but in the last in May at Osaka,Liu managed to beat Johnson with an Asian-record time of 13.06 seconds.
Still young,Liu has improved steadily,and won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 110 meters hurdles event.In the final,he equaled the world record of 12.91 seconds held since 1993 by Colin Jackson of Wales.This is the first time an athlete of non-African descent has dipped under 13 seconds for the 110 meter hurdles