Tsinghua Student Wang Yu Wins Men’s High Jump Gold at 2013 IAAF World Challenge

Wang Yu celebrates after winning the gold medal. (Photo by Li Ying from Xinhua )

Tsinghua student Wang Yu recently claimed the men’s high jump title with a leap of 2.33 meters at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing at the National Stadium, achieving the A standard for the IAAF World Championship Moscow. Another two Tsinghua students, Teng Haining and Gao Dongshi, ranked fifth in the men’s 800-meter race and sixth in the men’s 200-meter race respectively.

Wang Yu from Cohort 2007 in School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University secured victory with a jump of 2.33m in the men’s high jump. This is the national record in almost 23 years and the second best in the world (this year’s world record is 2.34m). Since China’s high jump star Zhu Jianhua retired in 1985, only one athlete cleared 2.33m in 1990. Throughout the competition, Wang Yu was on his top form. He cleared 2.15m, 2.20m, 2.25m and 2.28m all on the first attempt, with 2.28m equaling the highest mark of men’s outdoor high jump. After clearing 2.31 m, Wang Yu continued to aim for 2.33 m and succeeded at the third attempt.

As many as 229 world-leading track and field athletes from over thirty countries have taken part in this event and competed fiercely in eleven track events and twelve field events.

(From SEM)