Wu Yanan (canoeist)

Wu Yanan

Personal information
Nationality	China
Born	8 December 1985 Chuzhou, Anhui, China
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6 ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 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

Wu Yanan (simplified Chinese: 吴 亚男; traditional Chinese: 吳 亞男; pinyin: Wú Yànán; born December 8, 1985 in Chuzhou, Anhui) 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]

Wu represented China at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Wu and her partner Zhou Yu narrowly missed out on an Olympic medal in the A-final by almost fourteen hundredths of a second (0.14), finishing behind the Polish bronze-medal winning pair of Karolina Naja and Beata Mikołajczyk, with a time of 1:44.136.^[5]

References

1. "Wu Yanan". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
2. "Wu Yanan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
3. "Wu Yanan Won Anhui 10th Gold". Anhui News. 26 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 Double (K2) 500m Final A". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile