Wu Shuijiao

Wu Shuijiao

Wu at the 2015 World Championships
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  China
East Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tianjin 100 m hurdles
Asian Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Guangzhou 100 m hurdles

Wu Shuijiao (simplified Chinese: 吴水娇; traditional Chinese: 吳水娇; pinyin: Wú Shuǐjiāo; born 19 June 1991 in Xinyi) is a female Chinese track and field athlete who competes in hurdling. Her personal best for the 100 metres hurdles is 12.93 seconds, set in 2013. Wu was the Chinese champion in the event in 2012 and 2013.

She was the 2010 Asian Junior champion and won her first senior title at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. She was the gold medallist in the hurdles at the 2013 East Asian Games and the 2013 National Games of China. She represented China at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.

Career

Wu was recruited to begin training in hurdling when she was a fifth-grade student in elementary school in Doumen District, Zhuhai.[1] As a teenager, she won three straight national junior (under-20) titles from 2008 to 2010. At the 11th Chinese National Games in 2009 she set a personal best time of 13.67 seconds and was a finalist in the event, as well as placing fourth in the 4×100 metres relay with her native province, Guangdong.[2] Her first international medals came at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships: she claimed the 100 m hurdles title at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, winning by almost half a second, and also helped China to the silver medals in the 4×100 m relay.[3] In her last race of the season, she set a new best of 13.62 seconds to place fifth at the Chinese Athletics Championships.[2]

Wu moved into the senior ranks in 2011. That year she improved her best time to 13.19 seconds, won the Kunshan and Jiaxing legs of the Chinese Athletics Grand Prix and came seventh in the final of the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships. She managed only seventh at the national championships that year.[2] Her breakthrough year came in 2012 and began with her winning the 60 metres hurdles gold medal at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in a championship record time of 8.24 seconds.[4] A string of outdoor wins in China that season, including the national universities championship,[5] concluded in her first national title and a personal best of 12.98 seconds at the Chinese Championships in September.[6]

She opened 2013 with a 60 m hurdles best of 8.19 seconds in Nanjing.[7] Her first outdoor competition that year saw her run 13.08 seconds,[8] and she established her supremacy among Chinese hurdlers that year by taking her second national title. This earned her a debut appearance 2013 World Championships in Athletics, but she failed to get past the heats of the global level event.[9] At the 12th Chinese Games she beat two-time Asian champion Sun Yawei to take the hurdles gold medal in a new best of 12.96 seconds. She also helped the Guangdong team to third in the relay race.[10] Wu closed the year with a gold medal at the 2013 East Asian Games in a Games record of 12.93 seconds – a time that ranked her as the top Asian hurdler that year.[11] Wu has been banned after testing positive in June 2018 for norandrosterone. Wu is banned until July 2022 and her coach Dai Jianhua received a two year ban.[12]

Personal bests

Event Time (sec) Date Place
60 metres hurdles 8.19 6 March 2013 Nanjing, China
100 metres hurdles 12.93 9 October 2013 Tianjin, China

Major competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2009 Chinese National Games Jinan, China 8th 100 m hurdles
4th 4×100 m relay
2010 Asian Junior Championships Hanoi, Vietnam 1st 100 m hurdles
2nd 4×100 m relay
2011 Asian Championships Kobe, Japan 7th 100 m hurdles
2012 Asian Indoor Championships Hangzhou, China 1st 100 m hurdles
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 26th (heats) 100 m hurdles
Chinese National Games Shenyang, China 1st 100 m hurdles
3rd 4×100 m relay
East Asian Games Tianjin, China 1st 100 m hurdles
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 19th (sf) 100 m hurdles 13.06
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 25th (h) 100 m hurdles 13.03

References

  1. ^ 郭, 秀玉 (9 September 2013). 珠海选手在本届全运会上获得第二块金牌 斗门小丫吴水娇百米栏夺金 (in Chinese). Zhuhai: Zhuhai Daily (珠海特区报). p. 1. Retrieved 31 December 2013. 戴建华告诉记者，吴水娇是斗门人，当她还在斗门西埔小学读书时，就被介绍给了市体校的教练。那时，戴建华的爱人到斗门区招收乒乓球运动员，专程找到了正在打篮球的吴水娇，一眼就看中了她，并把她带回市体校交给戴建华学跨栏。戴建华说，当时吴水娇正读小学五年级，身高只有1.43米，在跨栏上不占优势。"但这孩子天赋太好了，我只教了两天，她就像学了两年一样，练什么像什么。
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  3. ^ Asian Junior Championships 2010. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-12-27.
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  7. ^ Jalava, Mirko (2013-03-07). Dong Bin leads the way as indoor records tumble in Nanjing. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-12-27.
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  12. ^ Etchells, Daniel (10 January 2019). "Top Chinese hurdler handed four-year doping ban". inside the games.