Huang Bokai

Huang Bokai
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	26th September 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Shaowu , China
size	190 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	5.75 m
society	Guangdong Province
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 2 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Championships bronze Wuhan 2015 5.50 m bronze Doha 2019 5.66 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Doha 2016 5.75 m Junior Asian Championships gold Taipei 2014 5.25 m  Youth World Championships silver Donetsk 2013 5.20 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Huang Bokai (born September 26, 1996 in Shaowu ) is a Chinese pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Huang Bokai gained his first international experience at the World Youth Championships 2013 in Donetsk , where he won the silver medal with 5.20 m. The following year he won with 5.25 m at the Junior Asian Championships in Taipei and was at the Junior World Championships in Eugene with skipped 5.45 m fifth. At the Asian Championships in 2015 in Wuhan , he won the bronze medal with 5.50 m behind his compatriot Zhang Wei and Seito Yamamoto from Japan. In 2016 he won the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with a new championship record of 5.75 m . In the summer he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was eliminated there with 5.45 m in qualification . In 2019 he won the bronze medal again at the Asian Championships in Doha with 5.66 m behind the Philippine Ernest Obiena and his compatriot Zhang. He qualified for the world championships there and finished ninth there with 5.55 m in the final .

In 2018, Huang became the Chinese pole vault champion.

Personal best

• Pole vault: 5.75 m, September 28, 2019 in Doha
  • Pole vault (hall): 5.75 m, February 20, 2016 in Doha

Web links

Commons : Huang Bokai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Huang Bokai in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Huang Bokai in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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