The Canadian Fencing Association recently announced the lineup for the Paris Olympics, and the team's 16-year-old Zhang Yunjia will compete in the women's foil team and individual events. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yunjia is the daughter of Chinese fencing celebrities Zhang Jie and Shen Weiwei, and at the beginning of this century, the couple successively represented the Chinese fencing team in the Olympic Games.
According to the relevant information on the official website of the International Fencing Federation, Zhang Yunjia is currently ranked 27.5 points in the world, ranking 57th in the women's foil individual ranking list and fourth among the Canadian women's foil team. Perhaps considering that Zhang Yunjia has a lot of room to grow, the Canadian team has included her in the ranks of three main players, which means that she will compete in the women's foil team and individual events during the Paris Olympics, and the fourth-ranked athlete will play the role of a team substitute during the Olympics.
Zhang Yunjia was born in September 2007, her father Zhang Jie and mother Shen Weiwei are both famous fencing players in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, from Shanghai and Nantong, which are important domestic fencing cities. Zhang Jie and the well-known Chinese sports "three musketeers" Ye Chong, Wang Haibin and Dong Zhaozhi jointly won the 1999 World Championships team runner-up, he participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a team substitute, and at the beginning of this century, Wu Hanxiong, Zhou Rui and called the Chinese men's flower "Little Three Musketeers". Shen Weiwei was a Chinese women's epee celebrity, winning the team runner-up in the 1999 World Championships, the team third place in the 2002 World Championships, and the 6th place in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and she won 5 gold medals in the 4th National Games.
Zhang Yunjia was born in Shanghai and came into contact with fencing at the age of 8, two years later than the same age of fencing. Despite a late start, Zhang Yunjia quickly showed her talent, finishing at the top of the national club league a year later and winning the league age category for the next two years. In 2019, Zhang Jie's family moved to Canada, and the couple opened a club called "Mountain Fencing" in Toronto. In early April last year, she was under the age of 16 to represent the Canadian team in the World Youth Championships, and jumped to participate in the youth group (under 19 years old) competition, and she actually broke into the top four in the world competition for the first time, causing a big upset.
At that time, Zhang Yunjia had set her sights on the Paris Olympics, and a year later, the dream came true, and this magical 16-year-old girl continued to write a new legend for the whole family, wishing her to play in the Paris Olympics with momentum and good results.