Female track and field athlete Huang Zhihong was born in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province in 1965. She entered Zhejiang Provincial Sports School in 1978, and was selected to Zhejiang provincial athletics team the next year and then transferred to the national team.

She won championships in women’s shot put at the 10th Asian Games in 1986 and the Fifth IAAF World Cup in Athletics in 1989.

In 1990, she won the silver medal in women’s shot put at the Beijing Asian Games.