i am not the best with zangief (i have trouble mastering his moves) but i do succeed to catch the opponent.

bunmi: if you got trouble to catch your opponent with zangief that's simply because you dont know how to use him. cause he is the best catcher in the game !

even with chunli, zangief can still catch up with her !
and you dont need to grab lots of time to kill, just 3 or 4 times and the guy is KOed.