Zhou Xia

Personal information
Nationality	China
Born	12 July 1999 (1999-07-12) (age 24)[1] Huaihua[1]
Medal record Women's athletics T35 Representing  China Paralympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T35 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m T35 2020 Tokyo 100 m T35 2020 Tokyo 200 m T35 World Championships 2023 Paris 100 m T35 2023 Paris 200 m T35 2017 London 100 m T35 2017 London 200 m T35 Asian Para Games 2018 Jakarta 100 m T35 2018 Jakarta 200 m T35 2022 Hangzhou 100 m T35 2022 Hangzhou 200 m T35

Zhou Xia (born 12 July 1999) is a Chinese para-athlete who competes in sprint events. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in the T35 100 m and 200 m races. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals in the T35 100m race and T35 200m, setting a new world record in both event.^[1][2]

Career

Zhou competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she was 17 years old. She won the T35 100 m (ahead of Australia's Isis Holt and Britain's Maria Lyle) and set a Paralympics record for the event with a time of 13.66s.^[3] She also won gold in the T35 200 m event with a world record time of 28.22s.^[4]

Zhou competed in the IPC Athletics World Championships in London in 2014. She won the silver medal in both the 100 m and 200 m events, behind Isis Holt.^[5][6]

Zhou competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. She won the T35 100 m in a world record time of 13.00s. She also won the T35 200 m in a world record time of 27.17s.