Wu Yanan (canoeist)

Wu Yanan
Personal information
Nationality China
Born (1985-12-08) 8 December 1985 (age 38)
Chuzhou, Anhui, China
Height1.69 m (5 ft 6+12 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
EventSprint canoe
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  China
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou K-4 500 m
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tehran K-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tehran K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tehran K-4 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Samarkand K-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Palembang K-2 200 m

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]

  1. ^ "Wu Yanan". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Wu Yanan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Wu Yanan Won Anhui 10th Gold". Anhui News. 26 November 2010. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. 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". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.