Career
Her personal best of 53.96 seconds in the hurdles is an Asian record, shared with Song Yinglan. She continued in that discipline at the 1993 East Asian Games held in Shanghai, but managed only third place behind Wang and fellow Chinese Chen Zhaojing. She switched to compete in the 400 m hurdles that season and the change proved successful as at the 7th Chinese National Games she broke the Asian record for the event with her winning time of 53.96 seconds.
This was part of a slew of record-breaking performances by Chinese women at the competition, which saw world or Asian records set in all the women"s track events bar the 4×100 m relay.
The time ranked her fifth in the global seasonal rankings for 1993. She entered the 1994 Asian Games as the continent"s leading female hurdler.
In her first major championship outside Japan she claimed the with a time of 54.74 seconds – an Asian Games record. lieutenant placed her fourth on time amongst athletes that season.
However, this mark was not to stand as she was disqualified after giving a urine test that was positive for the banned substance Dihydrotestosterone.
She was one of eleven Chinese athletes to fail a drugs test at the Asian Games that year, eight of them being lists. Marking a toughening of doping sanctions by the Chinese governing body, she was banned from the sport for four years. This effectively marked the end of her career as she did not return to competition.
