Zhang Xi (

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: 张希;

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: 張希;

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: Zhāng Xī; born 19 April 1985) is a Chinese

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player. She won the bronze medal in the women's team competition at the

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, and the gold medal at the

2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships The 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships was a beach volleyball double-gender event, held from 1 to 7 July 2013 in Stare Jabłonki, Poland. The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are organized every two years, and Poland ...

, partnering with Xue Chen. In 2004, she moved on to start playing full-time in the

Swatch FIVB World Tour The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (known between 2003 and 2012 as the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour for sponsorship reasons) was the worldwide professional beach volleyball tour for both men and women organized by the ' (Fédération ...

. In 2006, she began to team up with Xue Chen in the SWATCH tournament season. After finishing the tournament she went back to study at the Physical Education Unit of Jiangsu Province in China. In 2008, Zhang was named as the FIVB Most Outstanding Player. The duo of Zhang and Xue won a gold medal from the FIVB World Tour Women's Final in

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, Finland on 21 August 2010. On the same day, they broke the winning streak of Brazil's França–

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duo. In 2010, Zhang and Xue came 4th on the

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. In 2011, Zhang was awarded the title of FIVB Best Defensive Player. The duo once again competed at the

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and settled at 4th place.

Playing partners

* Xue Chen * Hu Xiaoyan * Ji Linjun *

Tian Jia Tian Jia ( zh, c=田佳, p=Tián Jia; born 9 February 1981 in Tianjin) is a female Chinese professional beach volleyball player. Career Tian won the bronze medal in the women's team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championshi ...

* Pan Wang

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Xi 1985 births Living people Chinese women's beach volleyball players Olympic beach volleyball players for China Olympic medalists in beach volleyball Olympic bronze medalists for China Asian Games medalists in beach volleyball Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2006 Asian Games Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2010 Asian Games Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Volleyball players from Jiangsu Sportspeople from Nantong Beach volleyball defenders

Playing partners

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