Career
She set a personal best of 54.52 seconds in 1993. She was also an Asian Games gold medalist in the 4×400 metres relay. Leng"s first international medal came at the 1990 Asian Junior Athletics Championships held in Beijing.
This stood as the championship record for over a decade, finally being broken by another Chinese hurdler, Wang Xing, in 2004.
This time ranked Leng tenth in the world for the event that season. Her senior international debut followed a few months later at the 1993 Asian Athletics Championships.
At the competition in Manila she led the Chinese challenge in the 400 m hurdles and took the silver medal behind Kazakhstan"s Natalya Torshina. This gained her selection for China at the Asian Games later that year.
Her winning time of 55.26 seconds was an Asian Games record which lasted for twenty years.
lieutenant was finally bettered in 2014 by Kemi Adekoya (a Nigerian-born runner for Bahrain). Originally, Leng had finished as runner-up to Han Qing, who was subsequently disqualified and banned for doping. Despite being only 22 years old, this was the last major medal of her career and 1994 was the last time she ranked in the top twenty athletes globally.
