Career
She is a former world record holder for the Women"s 500 m Time Trial, which was set on August 11, 2002 in Kunming with a time of 34.000 seconds. On 20 August 2004, she also broke the Olympic record at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, setting a time of 34.112 seconds, but was beaten by Australia"s Anna Meares a few minutes later, with new Olympic and world record time of 33.952 seconds. Yonghua began cycling career with the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Team C in October 1989.