Wang Yan (; born May 3, 1971, in

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) is a

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race walker Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

, who won the bronze medal over 10 km at the

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. She also won the 1993

IAAF World Race Walking Cup The World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships is a racewalking event organised by World Athletics. It has been held since 1961, and generally on a biennial basis. The first women's edition of the event happened in 1979. It was formerly know ...

, as well as a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and a bronze at the 2001

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. She was the world record holder for the 20 km walk from 2001 to 2005. She held the Asian record for the women's 20 km walk with her best of 1:26:22 hours from 2001 to 2012, until it was beaten by Liu Hong.Jalava, Mirko (2012-03-30)
Asian records fall in Taicang Race Walking Challenge
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* 1971 births Living people Chinese female race walkers Athletes from Liaoning Olympic athletes for China Olympic bronze medalists for China Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics World record setters in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners World Athletics U20 Championships winners Chinese Athletics Championships winners {{PRChina-Olympic-medalist-stub

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