Career
She has a personal best of 2:01.34 minutes. She was the gold medallist at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2013 and the runner-up at the 2011 World Youth Championships. Born in Suzhou in China"s Anhui province, Wang had her first successes at provincial level winning a series of events in 2010.
She entered the 800 m at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics and improved through the rounds, reducing her best from 2:07.13 to 2:03.23 by the end of the competition.
In the final she nipped Jessica Judd at the line to take the silver medal behind the favourite Ajee" Wilson. Chunyu competed exclusively on the national circuit in 2012 and her best run of the season came at the Chinese Athletics Championships, where she was just two hundredths of a second behind Zhao Jing, with a time of 2:01.48 minutes.
She beat Bahrain"s Ethiopian-born Genzeb Shumi by a margin of almost two seconds.