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Personal information | |
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Nationality | Chinese |
Born | Muping County, Yantai, Shandong | September 24, 1993
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | China |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Javelin throw |
Medal record |
Liu Shiying (Chinese: 刘诗颖; born 24 September 1993) is a Chinese athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is the first Asian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in women's javelin throw.[1]
Born in Muping County, Yantai, Shandong Province,[2] Liu competed in track and field as a teenager and came to prominence nationally with a win at the Chinese City Games.[3] A win at the national junior championships in 2012 saw her rise to the top of the world junior rankings with a personal best of 57.52 m (188 ft 8 in).[2]
She entered the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics as the leading athlete and improved her best to 58.47 m (191 ft 9 in) in the qualifying round.[4] She improved again to 59.20 m (194 ft 2 in) in the final and led until the final round when Sweden's Sofi Flinck had a large personal best to knock Liu into the silver medal position.[5] She had won a gold medal herself at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships a month earlier.[6]
Liu made a gradual progression into the senior ranks. She was sixth at the 2012 Chinese Athletics Championships,[7] then improved to fourth behind Chang Chunfeng at the 12th Chinese National Games in 2013 with a personal best of 60.23 m (197 ft 7 in) – her first throw beyond sixty metres.[8] She did not compete at a major event in 2014, but a new best throw of 62.72 m (205 ft 9 in) gave her her highest world ranking yet at 21st (behind only Asian Games winner Zhang Li among Asian women).[9][10]
She established herself internationally with a win at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, taking the gold medal for China in a championship record of 61.33 m (201 ft 2 in) (beating the mark set by her compatriot Li Lingwei in 2013).[11]
On 6 August 2021, she won the gold medal in women's javelin throw at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with 66.34 m (217 ft 7 in), thereby becoming the first Asian to win an Olympic gold medal in women's javelin throw and the second Chinese athlete to be crowned the Olympic champion in any field event.[12]
On 23 September 2021, she won the gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 2021 National Games of China in Shaanxi with 64.33 metres.[13]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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2012 | World Junior Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 2nd | 59.20 |
Asian Junior Championships | Colombo, Sri Lanka | 1st | 53.02 | |
2015 | Asian Championships | Wuhan, China | 1st | 61.33 CR |
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 23rd (q) | 57.16 |
2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 8th | 62.84 |
2018 | Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 1st | 66.09 |
2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | 65.88 m |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | 66.34 m |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 4th | 63.25 m |
2023 | Asian Championships | Bangkok, Thailand | 2nd | 61.51 m |
World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 6th | 61.66 m | |
Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 5th | 57.62 m |
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All information from IAAF profile