Ann Zhang (Chinese: 張元元; born 21 June 1957) is a retired Chinese short track athlete and coach, who worked as the coach of the Australian short track team from 1996 to 2014.
At that time, the country's short track team had already achieved considerable success, including the first medal for Australia at the Winter Olympics, a bronze medal in the relay at the Games in Lillehammer in 1994.
The short track team was successful in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
Steven Bradbury surprisingly won the first Winter Olympics gold medal for his country.
[4][5] In 2019, Zhang briefly worked as an interim coach for the Singaporean national team.