Liu Yang (shot putter)

Liu Yang
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	29th October 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	China
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	19.77 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Games silver Jakarta 2018 19.52 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Doha 2016 19.30 m
last change: December 23, 2018

Liu Yang (born October 29, 1986 ) is a Chinese shot putter .

Athletic career

Liu Yang gained his first international experience at the 2015 Asian Championships in Wuhan , where he finished fourth with 19.23 m. The following year he won the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 19.30 m in front of his compatriot Tian Zhizhong . At the beginning of September 2017 he was seventh at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat with 18.24 m. In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and won the silver medal behind the Indian Tejinder Pal Singh with 19.52 m .

In 2014, 2015, and 2018, Liu became the Chinese Shot Put Champion.

Personal best

• Shot put: 19.77 m, September 9, 2013 in Shenyang
  • Shot put (hall): 19.50 m, March 6, 2013 in Nanjing

Web links

• Liu Yang 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. Liu is the family name here, Yang is the first name.