Who in the hell is Zhang Zhiqiang?!?!

[Prestwick]

I always surf the Hong Kong Sevens webpage because I'm a dreamer with no hope of going in the near future. However, when casting my eyes over the stats, I thought I'd see a plethoria of English, New Zealand, Fijian and South African names competing for the top spot of the best performer and top try scorer tables.



Imagine my surprise when I saw China's "Zhang Zhiqiang" at the top of both by a good margin in at least one. Who the hell is this guy?



It seems that Zhiqiang is a graduate of the highly competitive Peoples Liberation Army Sports Institute who send a team to the Hong Kong sevens. He also did a stint at Leicester Tigers. One of his fellow Institute rugby players is the incredibly fast Li Yang who has reportedly done the 100 meters in 10.6 seconds.

 

[candybum]

them chinese ay... there had to be one good rugby player out of what.. billions upon billions of people? Could you give us a link?

 

[An Tarbh]

It's only from Wikipedia, pretty much all there is to say about Chinese rugby apart from the fact that he's also known as Johnny Zhang.

 

[Gay-Guy]

Well it was only a matter of time before the Chinese would do better in rugby after the Govt introduced it as a sport for their army.