Yang Jiayu
Personal information
Born (1996-02-18) 18 February 1996
Wuhai, China
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight48 kg (106 lb)[1]
Sport
Country China
SportAthletics
Event20 km Race Walk
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  China
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 London20 km walk
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta20 km walk

Yang Jiayu (Chinese: 杨家玉; born 18 February 1996)[1] is a female Chinese race walker who specialises in the 10 kilometres and 20 kilometres race walk. She was the gold medallist over 20 km at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.[2]

Biography

In May 2014 she participated in the 2014 World Cup, placing second in the Women's 10 km (Junior) event in 43:37, behind Duan Dandan.

On August 13, 2017 she became champion in the 20 km race at the 2017 World Championships with a personal best of 1:26:18, ahead of Mexican María Guadalupe González (1:26:19, season's best) and Italian Antonella Palmisano (1:26:36, personal best.) Her compatriot, Lü Xiuzhi, was dramatically disqualified just about 20 meters away from winning the bronze medal.[3]

In 2019, she competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[4] She was disqualified after a fourth red card.[4]

In 2021, she set a new world record in the women's 20km race walk with a time of 1:23:49 at the Chinese Race Walking Championships in Huangshan.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Yang Jiayu". data.star.sports.cn. Chinese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "20 Kilometres Race Walk Women − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Athletics: Yang takes 20km walk gold in dramatic finish on Mall". Reuters. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Women's 20 kilometres walk" (PDF). IAAF - 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Yang smashes world 20km race walk record with 1:23:49". World Athletics. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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