Wang Kaihua Explained

Wang Kaihua (born 16 February 1994) is a Chinese male racewalking athlete. He has represented his country at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in 2016, where he helped China to the team gold, and at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, where he finished in seventh place.

Born in Lanzhou, he took part in racewalking competitions as a youth and participated at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He is coached by Italian Sandro Damilano.^[1] Moving into the senior ranks, he began to establish himself at the Taicang Race Walking Challenge, placing second to Chen Ding.^[2] Wang was ranked the number one in the world over the 20 kilometres race walk distance in the 2017 season, having set a personal best of 1:17:54 hours to win at the Chinese National Grand Prix.^[3] This moved him into the top five all time fastest Chinese at the event.^[4]

International competitions

2011	World Youth Championships	Lille, France	6th	10,000 m walk
2016	World Race Walking Team Championships	Rome, Italy	13th	20 km walk	1:21:12
			bgcolor=gold	1st	20 km walk	16 pts
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	7th	20 km walk	1:19:30
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	bgcolor=gold	1st	20 km walk	1:22:04
2023	Asian Championships	Bangkok, Thailand	bgcolor=silver	2nd	20 km walk	1:25:29

Notes and References

1. https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitioninfo/681a69cc-79e9-4747-ab9d-9a5a1cd5b439.pdf Junior Men’s 10 Kilometres Walk
2. Wu, Vincet (2015-05-01). Chen and Duan continue China’s race walking dominance in Taicang. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
3. https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/race-walks/20-kilometres-race-walk/outdoor/men/senior/2017?regionType=world&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true senior outdoor 2017 20 Kilometres Race Walk men
4. Wu, Vincent (2017-05-05). Niu clocks 50km race walk world lead at Chinese Grand Prix in Huangshang. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-14.