Zheng leaps into history

In the winter of 1953, a powerful jump from a Chinese woman attracted world attention.

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Twenty-year-old Chinese athlete Zheng Fengrong shattered the women's high jump world record with a leap of 1.77 metres in a Beijing athletic meet on November 17, 1957.

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The new record, the first women's world record for the People's Republic of China, was one centimetre higher than the old mark held by American Mildred McDaniel .

The jump also made Zheng the first Asian athlete to break a world track and field record since 1936.

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The record jump, although by a tiny margin, was described by the foreign media as "an explosive jump" because it generated China's first athletic world record.

Dubbed " a spring swallow awakening Chinese sports, " Zheng sent a message to the world that China was Nolonger the "sick man of the East. "

Born in the spring city of Jinan, Shandong Province, Zheng, who stands at 1.70 metres, has a good physique and a skillful scissor----sharp jump which was seldom seen among top jumpers in the world.

She once leapt 1.78 metres, a national record in 1963.

She claimed a well-merited place in sporting history when her achievement was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records .

Due to her contribution to athletics, Zheng was awarded a series of honours. She was named among the nation's greatest athletes in 1984.