Wang Jinfen

Wang Jinfen
Association	People's Republic of China
birthday	1969
Career
Debut in the World Cup	1988 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
Asian Games medals 2 × 2 × 1 ×
Winter Asian Games silver 1990 Sapporo Season bronze 1990 Sapporo 15 km classic gold 1996 Harbin Season gold 1996 Harbin Season silver 1996 Harbin sprint
World Cup balance

Wang Jinfen (* 1969 ) is a former Chinese cross-country skier and biathlete . She took part in three Olympic Winter Games and two Biathlon World Championships .

Wang lives in Dalian . At first she was a cross-country skier and at the age of 18 she took part in the Winter Olympics in Calgary for the first time , where she was 51st over 10 kilometers and did not finish over 5 kilometers. At the Winter Asian Games in 1990 in Sapporo , she won the bronze medal over 15 km classic and the silver medal with the relay. She first started in the biathlon in Feistritz at the Biathlon World Championships in 1988 and competed there in the individual, in which she was 40th, as well as the sprint race, where she ran to 32nd place. At the 1992 Winter Olympics from Albertville Wang was used in two races. In the individual she reached the 65th place, in the sprint the 35th. The following year she won gold in the sprint at the Winter Universiade in Zakopane . Even with the 1994 Winter Olympics from Lillehammer she entered, now in three races that. In the singles she came in 24th, in the sprint the Chinese was 41st and 14th with the relay. In 1995 Wang ran her second world championship. In the individual she was 49th, in the sprint a 45th place was added, with the relay, which also included Sun Ribo , Liu Jinfeng and Song Aiqin , she reached tenth place. At the 1996 Winter Asian Games in Harbin , she won the silver medal in the sprint and the gold medal in the relay. In addition, she won the gold medal there with the cross-country skiing relay. In the Biathlon World Cup , Wang ran regularly from 1993 to 1997. In Oberhof , she was 34 in her first individual. She ran four times on points. With 12th place in the sprint, Wang achieved her best result in 1993 in Antholz .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10						1	1
Points	3	1				2	6th
Starts	14th	13				2	29

(Information is not complete)

Web links

• Wang Jinfen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Wang Jinfen in the database of the IBU (English)
• Wang Jinfen in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

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, Jinfen is the first name.