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Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Asian Games
1	Women's 20km Walk	2010	Guangzhou, CHN	1:30:06
1	Women's 20km Walk	2006	Doha, QAT	1:32:19
Olympic Games
1	Women's 20km Walk	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1:28:35
2	Women's 20km Walk	2012	London, GBR	1:26:00
3	Women's 20km Walk	2020	Tokyo, JPN	1:29:57
4	Women's 20km Walk	2008	Beijing, CHN	1:27:17
World Championships
1	Women's 20km Walk	2019	Doha, QAT	1:32:53
1	Women's 20km Walk	2015	Beijing, CHN	1:27:45
1	Women's 20km Walk	2013	Moscow, RUS	1:28:10
1	Women's 20km Walk	2011	Daegu, KOR	1:30:00
2	Women's 20km Walk	2009	Berlin, GER	1:29:10
5	Women's 20km Walk	2022	Eugene, OR, USA	1:29:00
16	Women's 20km Walk	2023	Budapest, HUN	1:30:43
19	Women's 20km Walk	2007	Osaka, JPN	1:36:40
World Race Walking Tour
1	Women's 20km Walk	2023	Taicang, CHN	1:28:49
1	Women's 20km Walk	2019	Suzhou, CHN	1:29:53
1	Women's 20km Walk	2019	Doha, QAT	1:32:53
1	Women's 20km Walk	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1:28:35
1	Women's 20km Walk	2015	Beijing, CHN	1:27:45
1	Women's 20km Walk	2015	A Corunya, ESP	1:24:38
1	Women's 20km Walk	2015	Rio Maior, POR	1:27:22
2	Women's 35km Walk	2023	Dudince, SVK	2:40:06
3	Women's 20km Walk	2019	A Corunya, ESP	1:25:56
3	Women's 20km Walk	2019	Taicang, CHN	1:28:22

Occupation:

Business Administration - South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, CHN

Husband Liu Xue, daughter Xixi [2018]

Languages spoken:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Guangdong Province [People's Republic of China]

Liu Xue [husband], CHN

In 2013 she had a stress fracture in her knee. She sustained another knee injury in early 2014. (sport, 04 May 2014; sports, 24 Apr 2014)

She took up the sport at age 13 in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China. (sports, 15 Jun 2017)

She was inspired to take up the sport by her brother, and was then noticed by an athletics coach from Shenzhen, People's Republic of China. (sports, 03 Nov 2011)

To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (finance, 26 Mar 2023)

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang. (news, 08 Jun 2015)

She was named Female Athlete of the Year at the 2015 China Central Television [CCTV] Sports Awards in the People's Republic of China. (news, 24 Jan 2016)

She was named the 2015 Female Athlete of the Year by the Asian Athletics Association [AAA]. (sports, 08 Jun 2015)

She was named the 2008 Elite Athlete of the Year in Guangdong, People's Republic of China. (sports, 09 Jan 2009)

General Interest

General
OLYMPIC UPGRADE
She crossed the line in fourth place in the 20km race walk at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but was promoted to the bronze medal position after the initial silver medallist was disqualified for a doping violation. (sports, 12 Jun 2020)

SANCTION
She tested positive for the prohibited substance higenamine at the 2016 World Team Championships in Rome, Italy. The IAAF accepted that the substance was not administered in order to enhance performance. She was stripped of the individual gold medal she won at the event and was banned from the sport for one month, becoming eligible to compete again in July 2016. (insidethegames, 29 Jul 2016; IAAF, 25 Jul 2016)

FURTHER EDUCATION
In 2016 she began studying for a master's degree at Beijing Sport University in the People's Republic of China. (moe, 18 Jun 2020)

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event