Yang Jiayu

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Yang Jiayu
Personal information
Born (1996-02-18) 18 February 1996 (age 28)
Wuhai, China
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country China
SportAthletics
Event20 km Race Walk
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  China
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 20 km walk
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta 20 km walk
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 20 km walk
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.

Yang Jiayu (Chinese: 杨家玉; born 18 February 1996) is a female Chinese race walker who specialises in the 10 kilometres and 20 kilometres race walk. She was the gold medallist over 20 km at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.

Biography

In May 2014 she participated in the 2014 World Cup, placing second in the Women's 10 km (Junior) event in 43:37, behind Duan Dandan.

On August 13, 2017 she became champion in the 20 km race at the 2017 World Championships with a personal best of 1:26:18, ahead of Mexican María Guadalupe González (1:26:19, season's best) and Italian Antonella Palmisano (1:26:36, personal best.) Her compatriot, Lü Xiuzhi, was dramatically disqualified just about 20 meters away from winning the bronze medal.

In 2019, she competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. She was disqualified after a fourth red card.

In 2021, she set a new world record in the women's 20km race walk with a time of 1:23:49 at the Chinese Race Walking Championships in Huangshan.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Yang Jiayu". data.star.sports.cn. Chinese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ^ "20 Kilometres Race Walk Women − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Athletics: Yang takes 20km walk gold in dramatic finish on Mall". Reuters. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Women's 20 kilometres walk" (PDF). IAAF - 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Yang smashes world 20km race walk record with 1:23:49". World Athletics. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

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