Wang Yu (athlete)

Wang Yu
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	18th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Zhuhai , China
size	190 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.34 m
society	Beijing Athletics Team
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 2.30 m  Universiade bronze Kazan 2013 2.28 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Wang Yu ( Chinese  王 宇 , Pinyin Wáng Yǔ; born August 18, 1991 in Zhuhai ) is a Chinese high jumper .

Athletic career

Wang Yu gained his first international experience at the Summer Universiade 2011 in Shenzhen , where he finished fourth with 2.24 m. Also at the Indoor Asian Championships in Hangzhou in the following year he was fourth with 2.15 m. In 2013 he won the bronze medal at the Student World Games in Kazan with 2.28 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Moscow , where he was eliminated with 2.22 s in qualification. In the following year he could not qualify for the final at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot with 2.25 m. In September he first took part in the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , and finished fourth with 2.25 m. In 2015 he took part in the Asian Championships in Wuhan and finished seventh with 2.15 m. He qualified again for the World Championships in Beijing , where he was eliminated with 2.26 m in qualification .

In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he also failed to qualify for the final with 2.22 m , as well as the World Championships in London the following year , where he actually reached the final. but did not run again because of an injury. In 2018 he finished sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with a height of 2.20 m. At the end of August he took part again in the Asian Games in Jakarta and won there in the absence of Mutaz Essa Barshim with 2.30 m. The following year he qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where he finished tenth in the final with 2.24 m skipped . He was then at the Military World Games in Wuhan with 2.00 m eleventh.

In 2015 and 2019, Wang became the Chinese high jump champion.

Personal best

• High jump: 2.33 m, May 21, 2013 in Beijing
  • High jump (hall): 2.34 m, February 20, 2019 in Düsseldorf ( Chinese record )

Web links

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