Bian Ka

Bian Ka
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	5th January 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	China
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	18.71 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games gold Ashgabat 2017 17.34 m Asian Championships bronze Wuhan 2015 17.78 m  Junior World Championships bronze Barcelona 2012 16.48 m
last change: January 21, 2018

Bian Ka ( Chinese  卞 卡 , Pinyin Biàn Kǎ; born January 5, 1993 ) is a Chinese shot putter .

Athletic career

Bian Ka gained her first international experience at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Barcelona , where she won the bronze medal with 16.48 m. In 2014 she won the silver medal behind the Uzbek Sofiya Burkhanova at the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou . In 2015 she won the bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 17.78 m. A year later she qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Portland , where she finished tenth with 17.34 m. She also took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but retired there with 17.68 m in qualification . In 2017 she took part in the World Championships in London and reached twelfth place in the final . At the beginning of September she won the gold medal at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat with 17.34 m.

In 2015 she became a Chinese champion in the shot put.

Personal best

• Shot put: 18.71 m, September 25, 2015 in Suzhou
  • Hall: 18.12 m, January 28, 2016 in Beijing
• Discus throw: 47.87 m, April 28, 2011 in Beijing

Web links

• Bian Ka in the database of World Athletics (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Bian is the family name here, Ka is the first name.