Yang Yansheng

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Yang Yansheng
Yang in 2012
Personal information
Born (1988-01-05) 5 January 1988 (age 36)
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Country China
SportAthletics
EventPole vault
Updated on 11 August 2012.

Yang Yansheng (

Chinese pole vaulter. He is the former Chinese record
holder for the event both indoors and outdoors with bests of 5.80 and 5.75 metres respectively.

Born in

Asian Junior Athletics Championships before taking the silver medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships.[3] That same year he took silver at the 2006 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships behind Japan's Daichi Sawano and the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games.[4]

He won the 2009 national championships with a height of 5.35 metres.[5] He represented his region at the 11th National Games of China and won the bronze medal.[6] A vault of 5.40 m brought him silver at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games.[7]

He then competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.[3] He excelled at national level however, winning the national title in August in Jinan with a Chinese record vault of 5.75 m. This also guaranteed him selection for the Asian Games.[8] He became the pole vault champion at the 2010 Asian Games.[9] He also came fifth for Asia at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup.[3]

His best vault of the 2011 season was a clearance of 5.60 m in Hefei.

IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai.[10] He was selected for the 2012 London Olympics but failed to get past the qualifying stage. He ended his season with a 5.70 m vault to win the national title.[11]

At the start of 2013 he set a national indoor record of 5.80 m at the PSD Bank Meeting in Germany.[12] In the outdoor season he placed third at the IAAF World Challenge Beijing meet. In 2014, he finished ninth at the World Indoor Championship.[3]

References

  1. ^ Yang Yansheng. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2013-07-14.
  2. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2010-08-13.
  3. ^ a b c d e Yang Yansheng at World Athletics Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ 2006 Asian Games Pole Vault Results. Asian Games 2006. Retrieved on 2013-07-14.
  5. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2009-05-18.
  6. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2010-08-13.
  7. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2010-08-13.
  8. IAAF
    . Retrieved 2010-08-13.
  9. ^ 楊雁盛獲男子撐桿跳冠軍成亞洲第一高人
  10. ^ Johnson, Len (2012-05-19). Liu Xiang and G. Dibaba the standouts in rainy Shanghai – Samsung Diamond League. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-20.
  11. ^ Yang Yansheng. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-07-14.
  12. ^ 撑竿跳精英赛杨雁盛摘金薛长锐5.75米A标 (in Chinese). China Daily (2013-02-24). Retrieved on 2013-07-14.

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