Wu Yanan (canoeist)

Wu Yanan
Personal information
Nationality  China
Born (1985-12-08) 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
Representing  China
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou K-4 500 m
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wu.

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.


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