Wang Wupin

Wang Wupin
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  China
Asian Athletics Championships
2015 Wuhan Triple jump
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
2012 Hangzhou Long jump

Wang Wupin (born 18 January 1991) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. She holds personal bests of 6.58 m (21 ft 7 in) and 14.10 m (46 ft 3 in) for the events, respectively. She was the gold medallist in the triple jump at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships.

Her earliest successes came in the long jump, an event in which she was a medallist at the World Junior Championships in Athletics in 2010 and Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2012.

Career

Wang competed in the long jump as a teenager and gradually rose on the national scene with improving yearly bests of 6.24 m (20 ft 51⁄2 in) in 2008, 6.38 m (20 ft 11 in) in 2009, and 6.58 m (21 ft 7 in) in 2010.[1] The latter mark ranked her the second best junior category athlete in the world that season, behind Russia's Darya Klishina.[2] At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics she entered as the highest ranked athlete in the competition. Her last round effort of 6.23 m (20 ft 51⁄4 in) left her in the silver medal position behind Cuba's Irisdaymi Herrera.[3]

Her best of the 2011 season came indoors on the national circuit, with a mark of 6.42 m (21 ft 03⁄4 in) in Nanjing. She failed to better that outdoors, placing eleventh at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships,[4] but continued with strong indoor performances the following year by taking her first senior medal – a bronze – at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on home soil in Hangzhou. She was beaten by her younger national rival, Lu Minjia.[5] Her next major outing was the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships, where she was her country's only representative in the women's long jump, and she finished down in eighth at the competition.[6] She did not jump much beyond six metres that year.[1] Her best of the season was at the 12th Chinese National Games, where she jumped 6.24 m (20 ft 51⁄2 in) for third while representing her native Fujian.[7] She returned to the site of her first medal at the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, but finished in sixth while her countrywoman Jiang Yanfei took bronze.[8]

Her 2014 best in the long jump was 6.42 m (21 ft 03⁄4 in), remaining some way off her personal best she had set as a teenager four years earlier. That season marked the beginning of her competing in the triple jump and she set a new best of 13.67 m (44 ft 10 in) in Beijing that August.[1] It was the first time she ranked higher internationally in the triple jump rather than the long jump, as she edged into the top 90.[9] At the beginning of 2015 she improved again to 13.70 m (44 ft 111⁄4 in) at an indoor meeting in Shanghai.[1] Prior to the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships she had become the second highest ranked triple jump athlete in the region, after Olga Rypakova, through her clearance of 14.10 m (46 ft 3 in) in Beijing in May.[10] In the absence of Rypakova, Wang led a Chinese medal sweep of the women's triple jump at the championships in Wuhan, becoming the Asian champion with a mark of 13.76 m (45 ft 11⁄2 in).[11][12]

Personal bests

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 2nd Long jump 6.23
2011 Asian Championships Kobe, Japan 11th Long jump 6.08
2012 Asian Indoor Championships Hangzhou, China 3rd Long jump 6.22
2013 Asian Championships Pune, India 8th Long jump 6.01
2014 Asian Indoor Championships Hangzhou, China 6th Long jump 6.13
2015 Asian Championships Wuhan, China 1st Triple jump 13.76
Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 4th Triple jump 13.75
World Championships Beijing, China 23rd (q) Triple jump 13.48
2016 Asian Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 4th Triple jump 13.42

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wupin Wang Progression. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  2. ↑ Long Jump - women - junior - outdoor - 2010. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  3. ↑ Women's Long Jump Final". IAAF (2010-07-24). Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  4. ↑ Women Long Jump Final 2011 Asian Championships. JAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  5. ↑ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2012-02-18). Chinese dominate but there is double-delight for Iran at the Asian Indoor Championships – Day 1 . IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  6. ↑ 2013 Asian Championships Results. Asia Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  7. ↑ 田径 (Chinese). Liaoning2013. Retrieved on 2013-09-17.
  8. ↑ Full results. Asian Athletics (archived). Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  9. ↑ Triple Jump - women - senior - outdoor - 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  10. ↑ Triple Jump - women - senior - outdoor - 2015. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  11. ↑ Wu, Vincent (2015-06-07). China add four gold on final day to finish on top at Asian Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-06-10.
  12. ↑ China wins big at Asian Athletics Championships, aiming high at upcoming World Championships. Xinhua (2015-06-08). Retrieved on 2015-06-10.

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