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Ask any Chinese person: who won the 100m Men’s Final in the Tokyo Olympic Games? The answer you get will probably be something like: I don’t know but Su Bingtian, Zhongshan fei ren, was the first Chinese runner to be in the finals.
Situated by the Pearl River, North of Macau and South of Guangzhou and Foshan; Zhongshan, by Chinese standards isn’t very big, three million registered residents, including this writer, live in the city which, despite not being large, is very well-known. It’s one of the few places in China named after a person. The man who led the revolution in 1911 to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, Dr. Sun Yatsen, also went by the name Sun Zhongshan. After his death, his hometown, Xiangshan was renamed Zhongshan in his honour. People who live in here are very proud to tell you where they’re from and there’s no one in China who doesn’t know Zhongshan city.
【city|Su Bingtian:a game changer and a disrupter】Sun Yatsen may have been the first of our city’s heroes but there are many more. A personal sporting hero in the cycling velodrome also from Zhongshan is Liang Guihua, not a well-known athlete outside the city but the winner of several Paralympic medals including Gold in both Rio and London.
In recent days though, Zhongshan is back in the news because of a different sporting hero, Su Bingtian. The part of Zhongshan he hails from, Guzhen, is known as a town of factories and shops that make and sell lights. Su however, isn’t famous for lights but for his lightening speed on the track. His recent performance in the Tokyo Olympics has made him the latest household name in China to call Zhongshan home.
While his record on the track speaks for itself and stands as a great model for future Chinese athletes, many people outside of China who are not so familiar with him or pay little attention to the sport, may think this great sprinter just arrived on the scene, he didn’t. Some spitefully believe he was lucky in a world so affected by Covid that athletes from other countries may not have been at their peak, he wasn’t. His record demonstrates why this isn’t true.
Known as Zhongshan fei ren (Zhongshan’s flying man) Su Bingtian is not some fluke, nor is he a lucky man in the right place at the right time, he’s part of a growing disruption in the sprinting and athletics world which started to be noticed about 20 years ago.
China’s first ever Olympic Track and Field Gold Medal was in the 110m hurdles in 2004. The world was astounded by the speed and ability of China’s Liu Xiang. Like Su Bingtian, Liu Xiang was not a fluke who got lucky in one athletic meet, not only was he the Olympic Gold Medalist, he also held the World Record and the World Championship at the same time. He’s now an icon in China having dominated most of the world’s 60 and 110 metre hurdling events over a 12-year career until he retired from competing in 2012. It’s no secret, nor should it be a surprise, that Su Bingtian looks to Liu Xiang as a role model and inspiration.
Indoor sprinting is hugely popular amongst athletes. The fastest sprinters in the world compete in a dash across 60 metres, not only does Su Bingtian, with a speed of 6.42 seconds, hold the record for being the fastest Asian, it makes him fifth fastest runner in history[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_metres#Top_25_performers]. He’s also one of only four Asian athletes ever to have run 100 metres in under 10 seconds. This once seemingly impossible barrier was first achieved in 1968 and has only been reached by 163 people in athletic history less than 100 of them over the 50 years since it was broken, have been faster than Su.
Xie Zhenye of China is another who, in 2012 reached the 100m Olympic semi-final. Xie holds the current Asian 200m record of 19.88 and beat the 10 second barrier in 2018. Japanese runners Yuki Koike and Yoshihide Kiryu are the only other Asians among this list of 163 champions, although none of them are faster than Su Bingtian. In a sport dominated by West Indians, Africans and African Americans, Asia is getting noticed as the new kid on the block through the successes of these athletes.

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