Wang Wei-hsu

Wang Wei-hsu
nation	Taiwan
birthday	12th October 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Taiwan
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Championships silver Doha 2019 4 × 100 m
last change: April 13, 2020

Wang Wei-hsu (born October 12, 1996 ) is a Taiwanese sprinter .

Athletic career

Wang Wei-hsu gained his first international experience at the 2013 Youth World Championships in Donetsk , where he was eliminated in the first round of the 400-meter run with 49.06 seconds. The following year he was eliminated in the first round of the 400 meters at the Asian Junior Championships in Taipei and finished fourth in the Taiwanese 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 10.71 minutes. At the beginning of October, he retired from the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, with the season ahead. In 2015 he was also unable to qualify for the final at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 48.32 seconds over 400 meters. At the 2017 Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar , he finished fourth in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 06.51 minutes. He then took part in the Summer Universiade in Taipei and was disqualified there with the relay in the final. In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and was fourth there with the 4 x 100 meter relay in 38.98 s.

In 2019 he won the silver medal with the relay at the Asian Championships in Doha in 39.18 s and was eliminated in the semi-finals over 100 meters with 10.46 s. Then he reached the semifinals at the Summer Universiade in Naples , where he was eliminated with 10.67 s and with the relay he reached fourth place in 39.78 s.

In 2018, Wang became the Taiwanese 100-meter champion .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.34 s (+0.2 m / s), April 29, 2018 in Taoyuan
• 200 meters: 20.98 s (+1.7 m / s), May 1st, 2019 in Chiayi

Web links

• Wang Wei-hsu 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. Wang is the family name here, Wei-hsu is the first name.