Ren Wenjun

Ren Wenjun

Personal information
Nationality	China
Born	15 January 1992 Binzhou, Shandong, China
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport	Canoeing
Event(s)	Sprint canoe
Medal record Women's canoe sprint Competitor for  China Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou K-4 500 m

Ren Wenjun (Chinese: 任文君; pinyin: Rèn Wénjūn; born January 15, 1992 in Binzhou, Shandong) is a Chinese sprint canoeist.^[1][2] She won a gold medal, as a member of the Chinese women's kayak four team, at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, with a time of 1:34.440.^[3][4]

Ren represented China at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-4 500 metres, along with her teammates Yu Lamei, Liu Haiping, and Li Zhangli. Ren and her team, however, fell short in their bid for the final, as they finished last in the semi-final round by eighteen hundredths of a second (0.18) behind the Serbian team (led by Antonia Horvat-Panda), recording the slowest time of 1:34.004.^[5]

References

1. "Ren Wenjun". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
2. "Ren Wenjun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
3. "Chinese duo win Men's kayak double 1000m gold". CCTV News. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
4. "China wins women's four 500m kayak gold at Asiad". Xinhua News Agency (China Daily). 26 November 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
5. "Women's Kayak Four (K4) 500m Semifinal 1". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile