Zhu Jianhua

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Zhu Jianhua

Personal information
Native name	朱建华
Born	(1963-05-29) 29 May 1963 (age 61) Shanghai
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Event	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best	2.39 m
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  China Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles High Jump World Championships 1983 Helsinki High jump Asian Championships 1981 Tokyo High jump 1983 Kuwait City High jump

Zhu Jianhua (simplified Chinese: 朱建华; traditional Chinese: 朱建華; pinyin: Zhū Jiànhuá; born 29 May 1963) is a retired Chinese high jumper. His personal best of 2.39 metres is a former world record for the event, and is still the Chinese record.

In Helsinki 1983, Zhu became China's first man to win a medal in the IAAF World Championships. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he became the first male from the People's Republic of China to win an athletics medal in the history of the Olympic Games (Yang Chuan-kwang won a silver medal representing the Republic of China in the 1960 Rome Olympics).^[1] He is a two-time gold medallist at both the Asian Games and the Asian Athletics Championships.