Fu Mingxia is introversive to strangers but extroversive to close friends. She trains very hard and is good in mental quality. Fu Mingxia left home at age 9 to train in Beijing. The sacrifices began to pay off 12 days before her 12th birthday when Fu earned the platform-diving gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games. Six months later, she became the youngest diver ever to win gold at the World Championships. That prompted the international governing body to rule divers must turn 14 by the year of Olympic, World Championship or World Cup competition to participate.

Honor:

1989 American Seattle World Friendship Sports Game: champion in women's diving event

1991 6th World Tournament: champion in diving event, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest athlete in the world

1992 Barcelona Olympic: champion in 3 meters springboard diving event

1994 7th World Tournament: champion in diving event

1995 9th World Cup: champion in diving event and springboard diving event

1996 26th Atlanta Olympic: champion in diving event and springboard diving event

1999 National Diving Championship: 3rd place in 3 meters springboard diving event

1999 National Tournament: 3rd place in 3 meters springboard diving event

2000 World Cup: 3rd place in 3 meters springboard single diving event

2000 National Diving Championship: champion in 3rd place in 3 meters springboard double diving event