Wang Hao () (born August 16, 1989, in

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) is a

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Biography

In August 2008 he finished fourth in the

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event at the

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, in a new personal best time of 1:19:47 hours. He missed out on the bronze medal by a margin of five seconds. On 23 October 2008 he set a new world junior record over 10 km walk, with 39:32 minutes. The previous record of 39:57 minutes was set by Aleksey Bartsaykin of

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earlier in 2008. On August 15, 2009, he won the silver medal at the 20 kilometres walk in the 2009 World Championships in

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, setting a personal best of 1:19:06 in the process. By winning silver in the 20 km walk, Wang Hao became China's third ever male athlete to win a medal in the history of the

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, after former men's high jump world record holder

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, who won bronze in the 1983 World Championships, and hurdler Liu Xiang, who won a bronze in 2003, silver in 2005 and gold in 2007. He won two medals at the 11th Chinese National Games in 2009: a gold in the 20 km walk and a silver in the 50 km walk, finishing behind

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in the latter event.

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* 1989 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Chinese male racewalkers Olympic athletes of China Athletes from Inner Mongolia Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners World Athletics Championships winners {{PRChina-athletics-bio-stub

Biography

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