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Zuo Wenjing
Personal information
Native name
左文静
NationalityChinese
Born (1993-11-06) 6 November 1993 (age 32)
Height1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)
Sport
CountryChina
SportXiangqi
Rank
Women's Grandmaster (WGM)
Turned pro
2004
Achievements and titles
World finals
Women's individual champion (2022)
Medal record
Women's xiangqi
Representing  China
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2022 HangzhouWomen's individual
Gold medal – first place2022 HangzhouMixed team
World Xiangqi Championship
Gold medal – first place2022 KuchingWomen's individual

Zuo Wenjing (born 6 November 1993) is a Chinese xiangqi player. She won the women's individual title at the 2022 World Xiangqi Championship and, at the 2022 Asian Games, gold in both the women's individual and mixed team events.

Early life

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Zuo Wenjing was born on 6 November 1993.[1] She has achondroplasia, diagnosed in early childhood, and is 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) tall.[2][3] In 2004 she was recruited by grandmaster Liu Dahua [zh] into the Hubei provincial team and became his disciple.[3][4]

Career

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In 2006, aged 13, Zuo Wenjing won the national first-class player tournament in Beijing and became the youngest Chinese xiangqi master of the time.[2][4][5]

She has been a leading competitor at the National Mind Sports Games, winning the women's team title and an individual rapid silver at the first Games in 2009,[2][5] the women's youth individual title at the second Games in 2011 (with five wins and two draws),[2] the women's rapid title at the third Games,[5] an individual silver at the fourth Games,[5][3] and the professional women's individual title at the fifth Games in 2023.[3][6]

In October 2022 she won the women's individual event at the World Xiangqi Championship in Kuching, Malaysia, with a record of six wins and one draw, becoming world champion.[7][8]

At the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou she won two gold medals: the mixed team event on 1 October, as a member of the Chinese team,[9][10] and the women's individual event on 7 October, defeating Wang Linna in the final.[4][10] Her coach is the grandmaster Hong Zhi [zh],[3][6] and in 2023 she joined the Shenzhen Chaoxiang women's team for the National Women's Xiangqi League.[11]

Personal life

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A fan of the NBA player Kevin Garnett, Zuo plays basketball recreationally.[2][1]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Xiangqi – ZUO Wenjing". The 19th Asian Games Hangzhou. Olympic Council of Asia. Biographical and Additional Information. Retrieved 8 June 2026. Date of Birth: 6 Nov 1993 ... She was diagnosed with achondroplasia at age three and is a person of short stature.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 李勇 [Li Yong] (15 November 2011). 左文静最爱"狼王"加内特 柳大华：夺冠是实力运气 [Zuo Wenjing's favourite is "the Wolf" Garnett; Liu Dahua: the title was skill plus luck]. Wuhan Evening News (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via Sina Sports. 7战5胜2和，湖北棋手左文静昨日获得象棋女子青年个人赛冠军，这是湖北象棋队本届智运会的首枚金牌... ...2006年，年仅13岁的左文静在北京全国象棋一级棋士赛夺得大师称号... ...2009年，首届全国智运会... ...夺得女子团体冠军。左文静患有"先天性软骨发育不良症"... ...身高1.3米... ...最喜欢的是NBA球星"狼王"加内特。 [With 5 wins and 2 draws in 7 games, Hubei player Zuo Wenjing won the women's youth individual xiangqi title yesterday, Hubei's first gold of the Games ... In 2006, aged just 13, she won the master title at the national first-class player tournament in Beijing ... In 2009, at the first National Mind Sports Games ... she won the women's team championship. She has "congenital achondroplasia" ... is 1.3 m tall ... and her favourite is NBA star "the Wolf" Garnett.]
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 徐平 [Xu Ping] (29 October 2023). 夺冠的秘诀是"躺平"，"袖珍棋王"左文静揽下智运会湖北首金 [Her secret was "lying flat": "pocket-sized chess queen" Zuo Wenjing takes Hubei's first gold at the Mind Sports Games]. Jimu News (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 June 2026. 出生于1993年11月的左文静，身高只有1米3，因患有先天性软骨发育不良综合症而被称为"袖珍姑娘"... ...2004年，左文静被柳大华招入湖北专业队，成为特级大师的弟子。2006年，左文静成为当时年龄最小的中国象棋大师。 [Born in November 1993 and only 1.3 m tall, Zuo Wenjing is known as the "pocket-sized girl" because of her congenital achondroplasia ... In 2004 she was recruited by Liu Dahua into the Hubei professional team, becoming the grandmaster's disciple. In 2006 she became the youngest Chinese xiangqi master of the time.]
  4. 1 2 3 亚运会：象棋双金王——湖北选手左文静 [Asian Games: xiangqi double-gold winner—Hubei athlete Zuo Wenjing] (in Chinese). General Administration of Sport of China. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2026. 10月7日... ...在女子个人决赛中，左文静以2比0战胜队友王琳娜，夺得该项目金牌... ...这已是左文静参加本届亚运会收获的第2金。左文静出生于1993年，2004年被柳大华招入湖北专业队，成为特级大师的弟子，2006年，左文静成为当时年龄最小的中国象棋大师。 [On 7 October ... in the women's individual final, Zuo Wenjing beat her team-mate Wang Linna 2–0 to take the event's gold ... this was her second gold of these Asian Games. Born in 1993, she was recruited by Liu Dahua into the Hubei professional team in 2004, becoming the grandmaster's disciple, and in 2006 became the youngest Chinese xiangqi master of the time.]
  5. 1 2 3 4 金雷 [Jin Lei] (23 September 2021). 新科全运会象棋冠军引爆"上海杯" [New national-games chess champions set the "Shanghai Cup" alight]. Xinmin Evening News (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via Tencent News. 首届全国智力运动会专业女子团体冠军、专业女子个人快棋亚军。第二届全国智力运动会女子青年组冠军；第三届全国智力运动会象棋女子快棋冠军；第四届全国智力运动会专业女子个人亚军。 [First National Mind Sports Games professional women's team champion and professional women's individual rapid runner-up; second Games women's youth champion; third Games women's rapid champion; fourth Games professional women's individual runner-up.]
  6. 1 2 湖北名将左文静：小身体里藏着大能量 [Hubei star Zuo Wenjing: great energy in a small body] (in Chinese). General Administration of Sport of China. 16 January 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2026. 在合肥进行的五智会象棋比赛专业女子个人组决赛中... ...左文静战胜四川队的梁妍婷夺得冠军... ...教练洪智... ... [In the professional women's individual final of the xiangqi event at the Fifth National Mind Sports Games in Hefei ... Zuo Wenjing beat Sichuan's Liang Yanting to win ... coached by Hong Zhi ...]
  7. ↑ 郑直 [Zheng Zhi] (29 October 2022). 象棋世锦赛：中国队获男女个人冠军 越南队男团夺金 [Xiangqi World Championship: China takes the men's and women's individual titles, Vietnam the men's team gold]. Xinhuanet (in Chinese). Xinhua News Agency. Retrieved 8 June 2026. 末轮左文静顶住压力拿下对手，以六胜一和的战绩夺得女子个人冠军。 [In the final round Zuo Wenjing held off the pressure to beat her opponent, taking the women's individual title with a record of six wins and one draw.]
  8. ↑ 葛会忠 [Ge Huizhong] (31 October 2022). 象棋世锦赛王天一左文静夺冠 [Wang Tianyi and Zuo Wenjing win the Xiangqi World Championship] (in Chinese). General Administration of Sport of China. Retrieved 8 June 2026. 第十七届世界象棋锦标赛10月29日在马来西亚古晋落下帷幕... ...左文静... ...以6胜1和的战绩夺得女子个人冠军，这是她首次获得世锦赛女子个人冠军。 [The 17th World Xiangqi Championship concluded on 29 October in Kuching, Malaysia ... Zuo Wenjing ... won the women's individual title with a record of six wins and one draw, her first World Championship women's individual title.]
  9. ↑ 亚运会：象棋混合团体 汪洋左文静夺金 [Asian Games: Wang Yang and Zuo Wenjing win xiangqi mixed team gold] (in Chinese). Hubei Provincial Sports Bureau. 1 October 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2026. 10月1日晚，杭州亚运会... ...象棋混合团体决赛，中国队以2比0战胜越南队夺冠。在中国队担任主力棋手的汪洋、左文静为湖北象棋时隔13年再夺亚运会金牌。 [On the evening of 1 October, at the Hangzhou Asian Games ... xiangqi mixed team final, China beat Vietnam 2–0 for the title. Wang Yang and Zuo Wenjing, key players for China, won Hubei xiangqi its first Asian Games gold in 13 years.]
  10. 1 2 "Xiangqi – ZUO Wenjing". The 19th Asian Games Hangzhou. Olympic Council of Asia. Events and Medals. Retrieved 8 June 2026. Events and Medals: Women's Individual, Rank 1, Gold Medal; Mixed Team (China), Rank 1, Gold Medal.
  11. ↑ 黄心豪 [Huang Xinhao] (5 June 2023). 刘欢携左文静加盟深圳女子象棋队 [Liu Huan and Zuo Wenjing join the Shenzhen women's xiangqi team] (in Chinese). General Administration of Sport of China. Retrieved 8 June 2026. 深圳朝向女子象棋队... ...将代表深圳出战2023年全国象棋女子甲级联赛... ...左文静则是2022象棋世锦赛女子个人冠军。 [The Shenzhen Chaoxiang women's team ... will represent Shenzhen in the 2023 National Women's Xiangqi League ... Zuo Wenjing is the 2022 World Xiangqi Championship women's individual champion.]
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