0206 - China Selects 10 Best Athletes Of 1983. Xu Yougjiu (right) was the s...Back

China Selects 10 Best Athletes Of 1983. Xu Yougjiu (right) was the star athlete with a time of 45 minutes 13.4 seconds in the women's 10-kilometre walking race at the world Cup Championships in Norway last September, Setting a new world record for this event. Xu was born in Liaoning Province, northeast China, in 1962. She is 1.62m tall and weighs 49kg. She was for a time a Long-distance runner, but took up heel-and-too walking in 1981. Photo by Zhang Liuren