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{{short description|Chinese racewalker}}
{{Other people|Wang Hao}}
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{{Medal|Gold|[[2010 Asian Games|2010 Guangzhou]]|[[Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 20 kilometres walk|20 km walk]]}} 
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'''Wang Hao''' ({{zh|王浩}}) (born August 16, 1989, in [[Inner Mongolia]]<ref>http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/personsen/5498 {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref>) is a [[PR China|Chinese]] [[race walking|race walker]].

==Biography==
In August 2008 he finished fourth in the [[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk|20 km race walk]] event at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], in a new personal best time of 1:19:47 hours. He missed out on the bronze medal by a margin of five seconds.

On 23 October 2008 he set a new [[Junior world records in athletics|world junior record]] over 10&nbsp;km walk, with 39:32 minutes. The previous record of 39:57 minutes was set by [[Aleksey Bartsaykin]] of [[Russia]] earlier in 2008.<ref>IAAF, October 23, 2008: [http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=48106.html World junior mark for 10km Race Walk surpassed in China]</ref>

On August 15, 2009, he won the silver medal at the 20 kilometres walk in the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics|2009 World Championships]] in [[Berlin]], setting a personal best of 1:19:06 in the process. By winning silver in the 20&nbsp;km walk, Wang Hao became China's third ever male athlete to win a medal in the history of the [[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|IAAF World Championships]], after former men's high jump world record holder [[Zhu Jianhua]], who won bronze in the 1983 World Championships, and hurdler [[Liu Xiang (hurdler)|Liu Xiang]], who won a bronze in 2003, silver in 2005 and gold in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/16/content_11889080.htm |title=Wang Hao becomes China's third male medalist at World Athletics Championships history_English_Xinhua |website=news.xinhuanet.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825110113/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/16/content_11889080.htm |archive-date=2009-08-25}}</ref>

He won two medals at the [[Athletics at the 2009 National Games of China|11th Chinese National Games]] in 2009: a gold in the 20&nbsp;km walk and a silver in the 50&nbsp;km walk, finishing behind [[Zhao Chengliang]] in the latter event.

==See also==
*[[China at the World Championships in Athletics]]

==References==
* {{World Athletics}}
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[[Category:1989 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Chinese male racewalkers]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for China]]
[[Category:Athletes from Inner Mongolia]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for China]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships winners]]


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