Wang Xueer

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang.
Wang Xueer
Personal information
National teamChina
Born (1998-01-15) 15 January 1998 (age 26)[2]
Anqing, Anhui, China
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [3]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke[1]
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  China
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 50 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou 100 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Incheon 100 m backstroke

Wang Xueer (

19th Asian Games
.

Early life

Wang was born in Anqing city in 1998. She started swimming during second grade and in 2009, after winning the Youth Swimming Championships in Anhui, she enrolled for swimming training on the same year at Zhongshan Sports School.[4][5] She is a graduate of the school of sports science at the South China Normal University.[6]

Swimming career

On 6 September 2013, Wang achieved seventh position in 100 m backstroke at the 12th National Games of China held in Liaoning, China.[7] On September 9, she finished 27th at the 200 m backstroke preliminaries at the same games, missing the finals.[8] On 24 September 2014, she won third place in the 100 m backstroke at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.[9] In December of the same year, her team ranked 10th in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, Qatar, with a time of 3 minutes 57.06 seconds and missed the finals.[10]

In August 2015, Wang attained fourth position in the 50 m backstroke and fifth in the 100 m backstroke at the 2016 FINA Swimming World Cup in Paris-Chartres, France.

Rio de Janerio, Brazil but was was eliminated in the 100m backstroke semi-final.[15] Later in 2016, she won second positions in both the 50m and 100m backstroke at the Asian Swimming Championships in Tokyo, Japan in November.[16][17]

In 2017, she finished sixth position with a time of 27.55 seconds in the 50 m backstroke at the 17th FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary in July.[18] On 31 August of the same year, at the 13th National Games in Henan, China, representing Guangdong, she won second place in the women's 100 m backstroke final with a time of 1:00.25.[19] At the same event, Wang and her team won third place in the 4×100 m mixed medley relay and while part of joint team representing Liaoning, Shanghai, Henan and Guangdong at the women's 4×100 m medley relay, Wang's team won second place with a time of 4 minutes 23 seconds.[20][21]

In September 2021, at the

19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, she won first place in the 50m backstroke and second in the 100m backstroke. However, at the 4×100 m medley relay preliminaries, the Chinese team was disqualified following Wang's false start.[24][25][26]

In March 2024, at the 2024 National Spring Swimming Championships in Qingdao, China, Wang won first place at 100 m backstroke championship.[27] In April 2024, at the National Swimming Championships in Shenzhen, China, Wang won second place in the 100 m backstroke final.[28] In the same event, she also won second place in the mixed 4×100 m medley relay and women's 4x100 m medley relay finals.[29][30] As a result of her performance at the 2024 National Swimming Championships, she was selected as part of the Chinese national team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[31]

A 2024 article recently published in The New York Times alleges that Wang was one of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) in their blood stream although she was one of the four swimmers who did not participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan but will be in the 2024 Summer Olympics.[32]During a press release, the World Anti-Doping Agency said that the levels of TMZ found in Chinese swimmers were not capable of producing any enhancement in performance at the concentrations found and were due to an environmental contamination.[33]

References

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  4. ^ "Wang Xue'er claims 2 golds at National Swimming Championships". Government of Zhongshan. 2023-05-09. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  5. ^ ""把眼泪留在昨天，明天会更好"". iFeng. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  6. ^ Yang, Yi; Baak, Edwin; Li, Jianru (2021-06-08). "SCNU Swimming Team Successful at 20th China University Swimming Championship". South China Normal University. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  7. ^ "女子100仰小将傅园慧摘金 世锦赛7冠王赵菁摘银". Sports Sohu. 2013-09-06. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
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  29. ^ 游泳杂志 (2024-04-27). "全国游泳冠军赛26日赛况：张雨霏获得第4金，李冰洁800自达A标". Weixin. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
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  33. ^ "WADA publishes media conference recording regarding environmental contamination case of swimmers from China". WADA. 2024-04-22. Retrieved 2024-06-25.

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