Wang Jianan (athlete)

Wang Jianan
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	27th August 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Shenyang , China
size	180 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.47 m
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Military world games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Beijing 2015 8.18 m  Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 8.24 m Asian Championships gold Pune 2013 7.95 m Military world games gold Wuhan 2019 8.15 m  Junior World Championships gold Eugene 2014 8.08 m
last change: November 9, 2019

Wang Jianan ( Chinese  王 嘉 男 , Pinyin Wáng Jiānán; born August 27, 1996 in Shenyang ) is a Chinese long jumper .

Athletic career

Wang Jianan gained his first international experience at the 2013 Asian Championships in Pune , where he won with a jump of 7.95 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Moscow , where he was eliminated with 7.59 m in the qualification. In 2014 he won the Junior World Championships in Eugene with 8.08 m and in 2015 he won the bronze medal behind the British Greg Rutherford and Fabrice Lapierre from Australia at the World Championships in Beijing with 8.18 m in the final . In 2016 he took part in the World Indoor Championships in Portland and finished eighth there with 7.93 m. During the outdoor season he qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished fifth with 8.17 m in the final .

In 2017 he again took part in the World Championships in London , where he finished seventh with 8.23 ​​m in the final . In June of the following year he equalized the Chinese record of 8.47 m, which he has since held with Li Jinzhe . At the end of August he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time , where he won the gold medal with a new player record of 8.24 m. He was then at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava with 7.95 m fifth. In 2019 he qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where he finished sixth with 8.20 m in the final , before winning the gold medal at the World Military Games in Wuhan with a width of 8.15 m.

In 2012, Wang became the Chinese Long Jump Champion.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.47 m (+0.7 m / s) A, June 16, 2018 in Guiyang ( Chinese record )
  • Long jump (indoor): 8.18 m, March 3, 2016 in Nanjing

Web links

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