Wang Meng (short tracker)

Wang Meng
Wang Meng 2010 in Vancouver
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	April 10, 1985
place of birth	Harbin
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 20 × 14 × 3 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin 500 m silver 2006 Turin 1000 m bronze 2006 Turin 1500 m gold 2010 Vancouver 500 m gold 2010 Vancouver 1000 m gold 2010 Vancouver Season  Short track world championships gold 2003 Warsaw Season silver 2003 Sofia team gold 2004 Gothenburg 500 m silver 2004 Gothenburg All-around silver 2004 Gothenburg 1500 m silver 2004 Gothenburg Season silver 2004 Saint Petersburg team silver 2005 Beijing 500 m silver 2005 Beijing Season bronze 2005 Beijing 1000 m bronze 2005 Beijing 1500 m silver 2005 Chuncheon team gold 2006 Minneapolis 500 m gold 2006 Minneapolis Season silver 2006 Minneapolis All-around silver 2006 Minneapolis 1000 m silver 2006 Minneapolis 1500 m silver 2006 Minneapolis 3000 m silver 2006 Montreal team gold 2008 Gangneung All-around gold 2008 Gangneung 500 m gold 2008 Gangneung 1000 m gold 2008 Gangneung 1500 m bronze 2008 Gangneung Season gold 2008 Harbin team gold 2009 Vienna All-around gold 2009 Vienna 500 m gold 2009 Vienna 1000 m gold 2009 Vienna Season gold 2009 Heerenveen team gold 2010 Sofia 500 m gold 2010 Sofia 1000 m silver 2010 Sofia All-around gold 2013 Debrecen All-around gold 2013 Debrecen 500 m gold 2013 Debrecen 1000 m gold 2013 Debrecen Season  Short track junior world championships silver 2002 Chuncheon 500 m bronze 2002 Chuncheon 1500 m bronze 2002 Chuncheon 1500 m superfinals

Wang Meng ( Chinese  王 濛 , Pinyin Wáng Méng ; born April 10, 1985 in Harbin ) is a Chinese short tracker and, as a four-time Olympic champion, just ahead of Chun Lee-kyung (also four gold, one silver less), the most successful female athlete in the discipline.

Career

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won the 500m short track, the first gold medal for the Chinese team at these Olympics. In the subsequent 1000 and 1500 meter run, Wang Meng won the silver and bronze medals. In doing so, she provided three of the eleven medals for the Chinese team .

Wang Meng has also won twenty gold medals at world championships. In addition, she achieved a total of fourteen silver and three bronze medals at world championships.

At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Wang Meng won three gold medals on the short track. This made her the second most successful female athlete at these Olympic Games behind Marit Bjørgen . She was absent from the 2014 Olympics due to an injury.

Web links

• Wang Meng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Broken ankle: Short track superstar Wang drops out for the Olympics Spiegel Online (January 16, 2014)

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, Meng is the first name.