Wang Kaihua (born 16 February 1994) is a Chinese male racewalking athlete. He has represented his country at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in 2016, where he helped China to the team gold, and at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, where he finished in seventh place.
Born in Lanzhou, he took part in racewalking competitions as a youth and participated at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He is coached by Italian Sandro Damilano.Junior Men’s 10 Kilometres Walk. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-14. Moving into the senior ranks, he began to establish himself at the Taicang Race Walking Challenge, placing second to Chen Ding.Wu, Vincet (2015-05-01). Chen and Duan continue China’s race walking dominance in Taicang. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-14. Wang was ranked the number one in the world over the 20 kilometres race walk distance in the 2017 season, having set a personal best of 1:17:54 hours to win at the Chinese National Grand Prix.senior outdoor 2017 20 Kilometres Race Walk men. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-14. This moved him into the top five all time fastest Chinese at the event.Wu, Vincent (2017-05-05). Niu clocks 50km race walk world lead at Chinese Grand Prix in Huangshang. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
International competitions 2011World Youth ChampionshipsLille, France6th10,000 m walk2016World Race Walking Team ChampionshipsRome, Italy13th20 km walk1:21:121st20 km walk16 pts2017World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom7th20 km walk1:19:302018Asian GamesJakarta, Indonesia1st20 km walk1:22:042023Asian ChampionshipsBangkok, Thailand2nd20 km walk1:25:29
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