China News Service, April 2nd. On the evening of the 1st Beijing time, the FIBA announced the list of 12 players in the 2021 FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame. Chinese women's basketball legend Zheng Haixia was among them.
FIBA released the 2021 Hall of Fame poster.
Zheng Haixia, born in 1967, is the legendary center of the Chinese women's basketball team. In 1982, Zheng Haixia entered the Bayi team and entered the national team as desired in 1983, thus opening an unprecedented "Zheng Haixia era" for the Chinese women's basketball team.
She is strong and capable of offensive and defensive skills, and has become one of the few tall centers in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team with strong scoring ability.
In the 1983 World Championships, Zheng Haixia won the third place with the national team; in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the 17-year-old Zheng Haixia participated as the main center of the Chinese women's basketball team and won the bronze medal; in 1992, Zheng Haixia and his teammates won the silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics.
In 1997, Zheng Haixia participated in the American WNBA game and became the first Asian to get involved in the game.
She has won the love of fans in the United States and even the world for her flexible coordination, offensive and defensive characteristics. Zheng Haixia, who has gone abroad, is also called the "Great Wall of China" by foreign reporters.
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