Zhang Mingkun
Chinese athlete
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Zhang Mingkun (born 20 October 2000) is a Chinese long jumper. In 2024, he won the Asian Indoor Championships. He placed seventh at the 2024 Olympic Games and sixth at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[1]
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| Native name | 张溟鲲 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 October 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Long jump 8.13 m (Tokyo, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Zhang was an Asian Indoor Championships Bronze medallist in Kazakhstan in February 2023 with a jump of 7.92m.[2] He was an Asian Championships bronze medallist in the long jump in Bangkok in July 2023, with a personal best distance of 8.08 metres.[3][4] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[5]
He was the Asian Indoor champion in Tehran in 2024.[6] He jumped a lifetime best of 8.13m in the final round of the men’s long jump to win the World Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo on 19 May 2024.[7][8] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he placed seventh overall with a jump of 8.07 metres.[9]
In his first event since the Olympic final, he defeated Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou with a jump of 8.04 metres in Liévin on 13 February 2025.[10][11] He won the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, with a best jump of 8.15 metres in April 2025.[12][13][14] In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing sixth overall.[15]
In February 2026, he won the gold medal at the 2026 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin, China, retaining his title.[16] In May, he jumped 7.94 metres to place fifth at the 2026 Shanghai Diamond League.[17]