Duan Qifeng


Duan Qifeng is a Chinese male former track and field athlete who specialized in the triple jump. He set a lifetime best of in 1998, which ranked him 20th in the world that year.
Duan has had a vision impairment since a very young age, which allowed him to also compete in the Paralympics in category T12/F12 events.

Career

His international career flourished in 1998, when he was gold medallist at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships, silver medallist behind Sergey Arzamasov at the 1998 Asian Games, and a representative for Asia at the 1998 IAAF World Cup.
In the 1998 season he won the national title at the Chinese Athletics Championships with a mark of – the first athlete to jump over seventeen metres at the competition in eight years. He had been runner-up at the Chinese National Games for his native Hebei previously, finishing second to Zou Sixin in 1993 and Lao Jianfeng in 1997.
Duan Qifeng also competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics where he won three medals. He won gold in the F12 triple jump and a bronze in the F12 long jump, he was also part of the gold medal-winning Chinese 4 × 100 m relay team.

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