Duan Qifeng

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Duan Qifeng ({{zh|c=段岐峰}}, born 20 January 1973) is a Chinese male former track and field athlete who specialized in the triple jump. He set a lifetime best of {{T&Fcalc|17.05}} in 1998, which ranked him 20th in the world that year.[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=12296&Gender=M Duan Qifeng]. Track and Field Statistics. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

Duan has had a vision impairment since a very young age, which allowed him to also compete in the Paralympics in category T12/F12 events.{{cite web|url=http://news.cctv.com/20070508/106601.shtml|script-title=zh:近访2004年残奥会金牌得主段岐峰|date=2007-05-08|language=zh|trans-title=An Interview with 2004 Paralympic Gold Medalist Duan Yifeng|newspaper=Hebei Daily}}

Career

His international career flourished in 1998, when he was gold medallist at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships,[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asc.htm Asian Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-04. silver medallist behind Sergey Arzamasov at the 1998 Asian Games,[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asg.htm Asian Games]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-04. and a representative for Asia at the 1998 IAAF World Cup.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121026100106/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/79/40/20100809103225_httppostedfile_split2010_21818.pdf 1998 IAAF World Cup Results]. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

In the 1998 season he won the national title at the Chinese Athletics Championships with a mark of {{T&Fcalc|17.05}} – the first athlete to jump over seventeen metres at the competition in eight years.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/chn.htm Chinese Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-04. He had been runner-up at the Chinese National Games for his native Hebei previously, finishing second to Zou Sixin in 1993 and Lao Jianfeng in 1997.[https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022654/http://www.jx918.net/Result/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=199 7th National Games medallists] {{in lang|zh}}. jx918. Retrieved on 2013-03-30.

Duan Qifeng also competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics where he won three medals. He won gold in the F12 triple jump and a bronze in the F12 long jump, he was also part of the gold medal-winning Chinese 4 × 100 m relay team.{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/qifeng-duan |title=Qifeng Duan |website=Paralympic.org |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=}}