Wang Han (; born 24 January 1991) is a retired Chinese diver who specialises in the 1 meter and 3 meter springboard events. Wang won a silver medal in the 1 meter springboard event at the

2011 World Aquatics Championships The 14th FINA World Championships () were held on 16–31 July 2011 in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The 2011 World Championships featured five aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving, open water, and synchro ...

Early life

Wang was born on 24 January 1991 in

Baoding Baoding (), formerly known as Baozhou and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2010 census, Baoding City had 11,194,382 inhabitants out of which 2,176,857 lived in the b ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

. At the age of 4, she entered the Baoding Sports Kindergarten and began to practice gymnastics. In 2000, following her selection by the Hebei diving team coach, she began to practice diving.

Sports career

In 2005, Wang won the women's single 10-meter platform diving championship at the Asian Swimming Championships. In 2008, she was selected for the Chinese National Diving Team. In 2010, Wang won the women's synchronized 3-meter springboard championship at the

2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), was a regional multi-sport event celebrated from November 12 to November 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, although several events ...

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and in 2013, she won the women's double 3-meter springboard championship in diving at the 12th National Games of China in

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

. In 2015, she won the mixed 3-meter springboard in the diving at the 16th FINA World Championships in

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. In 2018, Wang won the women's 1-meter springboard championship at the 18th Asian Games in

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and in 2019, she and

Shi Tingmao Shi Tingmao (; born 31 August 1991) is a Chinese diver representing Chongqing diving team. She has been dominant in the 3 metre springboard events in the 2010s. She has won four gold medals in Olympic competitions, two at the 2016 Olympics and t ...

won the women's synchronized 3-meter springboard championship in diving at the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships in

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. At the

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, Wang and Shi Tingmao won the gold medal in the women's synchronized 3-meter springboard. In the women's single 3-meter springboard, she won the silver medal. On 5 April 2022, Wang announced her retirement from international competition. On the same month, she became the coach of the Hebei diving team.

Awards and honours

*On 9 August 2021, the

Chinese Communist Youth League The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League (CYL), is a youth movement of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, run by the ...

and the

All-China Youth Federation The All-China Youth Federation (ACYF; zh , s = 中华全国青年联合会 ) is a people's organization founded on 4 May 1949 that represents many youth groups in China, including the Communist Youth League of China. Former paramount leaders a ...

awarded 39 young athletes, including Wang, the China Youth May Fourth Medal (China Youth Wusi Medal). *On 11 August 2021, the

All-China Women's Federation The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF; ) is a women's rights people's organization established in China on 24 March 1949. It was originally called the All-China Democratic Women's Foundation, and was renamed the All-China Women's Federation in ...

awarded Wang the honor of National March 8 Red Banner Bearer. *On 3 April 2022, Wang was again awarded the China Youth May Fourth Medal by the Chinese Communist Youth League and the All-China Youth Federation on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Youth League.

References

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