The 4th Hangzhou Asian Para Games will take place from Oct 22 to 28.

The Chinese sports delegation, consisting of 723 people, was formed on Oct 11, including one athlete and one coach from Qidong, namely Qian Wangwei, a cyclist of the Chinese Disabled Cycling Team, and Zhang Haidong, a weightlifting coach of the Chinese Disabled Weightlifting Team.

Qian Wangwei will compete in her first Asian Para Games. She will participate in three cycling events: track cycling women's C1-3 level 3,000m individual pursuit, track cycling women's C1-3 level 500m time trial, and road cycling C1-3 level 13.7km individual time trial.

Qian Wangwei won one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the National Games in 2018 and joined the national team. She set a new world record for the C1 level with a time of 4 minutes and 31.47 seconds in the women's 3,000m individual pursuit track cycling event at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Zhang Haidong was born in 1969 and started athletic training in 1987. He won his first international gold medal at the sixth Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled Games in 1994. He won four Paralympic gold medals in Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing, and broke the world record four times. He became a weightlifting coach for the 16th Paralympic Games in August 2021.

Zhang Haidong will lead four weightlifters, Gu Xiaofei, Tan Yujiao, Yang Jinglang and Hu Peng, to vie for gold in various events at the Hangzhou Asian Para Games.