Wang Chunyu

Wang Chunyu
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	17th January 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Suzhou , China
size	175 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 59.93 min
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 800 m Asian Championships gold Pune 2013 800 m silver Doha 2019 800 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Tehran 2018 800 m  Youth World Championships silver Lille 2011 800 m
last change: November 14, 2019

Wang Chunyu ( Chinese  王 春雨 , Pinyin Wáng Chūnyǔ , born January 17, 1995 in Suzhou ) is a Chinese middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Athletic career

Wang Chunyu gained her first international experience in 2011 at the World Youth Championships in Lille , where she won the silver medal in 2: 03.23 minutes behind the American Ajeé Wilson . Two years later she won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in Pune and also qualified for the World Championships in Moscow , where she was eliminated in the first round. In 2016 she managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ; she reached the semifinals there with a new record under the 2-minute mark . In 2018 she won the gold medal over 800 meters in 2: 09.30 minutes at the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran . At the end of August she took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and won there in 2: 01.80 minutes ahead of the Kazakhstani Margarita Mukaschewa and Manal el-Bahraoui from Bahrain.

In 2019 she won the silver medal behind the Indian Marimuthu Gomathy at the Asian Championships in Doha in 2: 02.96 minutes . Shortly thereafter, she took part in the World Relays in Yokohama , where she retired with the mixed 4 x 400 meter relay with 3: 21.66 minutes in advance. Over 800 meters she qualified for the World Championships in Doha, where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 2: 02.84 minutes . Then she retired at the Military World Games in Wuhan with 2: 14.44 minutes in advance.

Personal bests

• 400 meters: 53.68 s, May 21, 2016 in Taiyuan
  • 400 meters (hall): 54.19 s, March 8, 2016 in Xi'an
• 800 meters: 1: 59.93 min, August 17, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro
  • 800 meters (hall): 2: 05.66 min, February 23, 2011 in Nanjing
• 1000 meters: 2: 52.63 min, February 21, 2015 in Claremont

Web links

• Wang Chunyu in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Wang Chunyu 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. Wang is the family name here, Chunyu is the first name.