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Wang Yang (high Jumper)
Wang Yang ( zh, 王洋, born 14 February 1989) is a Chinese former high jumper. She is a two-time Chinese Athletics Championships, national champion in the high jump and was a silver medalist at the Asian Championships in Athletics both indoors and outdoors. Biography Yang competed in her first senior national championships in 2008, when she won a silver medal at the age of 19. However, she finished 5th in the separate Chinese Olympic Trials meeting that year, so she was not selected to represent China at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Yang finished 4th and 5th at the 2009 and 2010 Chinese Athletics Championships, so her next national medal did not come until 2011 and 2012 when she won two more silver medals. In 2015, Yang won her first national championship title, jumping 1.88 metres to beat runner-up Zheng Xingjuan by 4 centimetres. 2017 was a particularly successful year for Yang. After winning her second Chinese Athletics Championships title on 19 May, she went on to win the mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
