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Liu Xiang

For other uses, see Liu Xiang (disambiguation).
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Liu.

Gold
medal 110 m.
hurdles
Xiang (Simplified Chinese: 刘翔, 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.

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Major achievements
2001
World Student Games - Beijing, China.
110 m. hurdles gold medal
East Asian Games - Osaka, Japan.
110 m. hurdles gold medal
2002
Asian Championships - Manila, Philippines.
110 m. hurdles gold medal
Asian Games - Busan, South Korea
110 m. hurdles gold medal
2003
World Championships - Paris, France.
110 m. hurdles bronze medal
World Indoor Championships - Birmingham, England.
60 m. hurdles bronze medal
2004
World Indoor Championships - Budapest, Hungary.
60 m. hurdles silver medal
Olympic Games - Athens, Greece.
110 m. hurdles gold medal
2005
World Championships in Athletics
110 m. hurdles silver medal

The 21-year-old claimed the gold medal of the glamorous men's 110m hurldes before a capacity crowd of 70,000 at the Olympic Stadium in the 28th Olympic Games in Athens late Friday local time.

He clocked a stunning 12.91 seconds to equal the world record set by Britain's Collin Jackson in 1993.

Chinese fans in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai burst into hysteria and many cried out when the national television station CCTV broadcast the event live, when brave Liu Xiang dashed to the line in arms and legs far ahead of his rivals, in the early hours Saturday morning Beijing time.