Yang Wenjun

Yang Wenjun

Yang Wenjun (zh-s|杨文军, born December 25, 1983 in Sichuan) is a Chinese flatwater canoer. He won the Canadian canoe C-2 500m gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics with partner Meng Guanliang - China's first-ever Olympic medal in the sport.

Yang's first major international success came at the 2002 Asian Games where, aged only 18, he won two gold C-2 medals with Wang Bing. At the 2003 world championships in Gainesville,USA he was the youngest of the individual C-1 1000m finalists, finishing a very creditable seventh overall.

At the start of the 2004 season he formed a new C-2 partnership with the more experienced Meng, working under Canadian coach Marek Ploch. On their first international appearance together in Komatsu, Japan, they shocked observers by posting a 500m time of 1:40.27. Then, in June, they won the prestigious Duisburg World Cup.

At the Olympic Games in Athens, they were drawn in the toughest heat alongside all the main medal contenders. They won the heat in a time of 1:38.916, almost a full second ahead of Cubans Rojas and Ledys Balceiro. The final was much closer with less than a second separating the first eight contenders but Meng and Yang again came out on top, beating the Cuban pair to win the gold medal.

After the Olympics, Yang returned to the C-1. At the 2005 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia he raced over all three distances, despite the new compressed schedule, and finished 6th (500m), 7th (1000m) and 10th (200m).

At the 2006 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, Yang concentrated on the shorter distance events. He won the C1 500m bronze medal, China's first-ever men's world championship medal, and finished fifth in the C1 200m..

Yang is 177 cm (5'10") tall and weighs 77 kg (169 lbs).


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