WANG Yu

Olympic Games

Year	Location	High Jump
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (2.22)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	High Jump
2019	Doha, QAT	10th (2.24)
2017	London, GBR	11th (DNS)
2015	Beijing, CHN	Qual. (2.26)
2013	Moscow, RUS	Qual. (2.22)

Asian Games

Year	Location	High Jump
2018	Indonesia	1st (2.30)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	High Jump
2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 9th
2018	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 6th
2017	1 x 2nd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	High Jump	Shanghai, CHN	2.28
2	2018	High Jump	Monaco, MON	2.30
2	2017	High Jump	Shanghai, CHN	2.30
3	2019	High Jump	Birmingham, GBR	2.23
3	2018	High Jump	Eugene, OR, USA	2.32
6	2018	High Jump	Doha, QAT	2.20
9	2019	High Jump	Zurich, SUI	2.24

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	High Jump	World Challenge	Nanjing, CHN	2.31
2	2018	High Jump	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	2.30
3	2017	High Jump	World Challenge	Kawasaki, JPN	2.28

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	High Jump
2018	Birmingham, GBR	6th (2.20)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

Accounting - Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN

Wife Sun Yan

Mandarin

Beijing [People's Republic of China]

Wang Jialing, CHN

His mother competed in marathons at national level, and his father was a middle-distance runner for Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. His wife Sun Yan has competed in triple jump at national level in the People's Republic of China. (olympic.cn, 18 Oct 2013; sports.qq.com, 14 Aug 2013; tsinghua.org.cn, 28 Aug 2018; sohu.com, 04 Oct 2018)

2010 for People's Republic of China (Athlete, 14 Aug 2016)

He suffered from plantar fasciitis in 2019, and the problem worsened after the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. He required several months to recover and returned to competition in mid-2020. (sports.sina.com.cn, 27 Aug 2020)

He injured his left heel during the 2019 National Championships in Shenyang, People's Republic of China. (sports.sina.com.cn, 04 Aug 2019)

A bout of gastroenteritis forced him to withdraw from the 2017 World Championships in London, England, before the high jump final. (sports.qq.com, 14 Aug 2017)

He took up athletics at age 17 in Beijing, People's Republic of China. (Athlete, 14 Aug 2016)

"I liked badminton, golf, swimming. When I graduated from middle school my mother sent me to the affiliated school of Tsinghua University. Then because I had a slim figure, I chose the high jump." (tsinghua.edu.cn, 15 Jun 2013)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ppsport.com, 05 Oct 2019; sports.sina.com.cn, 27 Aug 2020)

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang. (chinanews.com, 06 Sep 2017)

He was the flag bearer for the People's Republic of China at the opening ceremony of the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China. (sports.sina.com.cn, 14 Aug 2011)