Career
He has a personal best of 75.20 m (246 ft 81⁄2 in) for the event, which ranks him second among Chinese men after national record holder Bi Zhong. He threw beyond sixty metres with the senior implement for the first time in 2007 and improved to 63.20 m (207 ft 4 in) the year after, placing seventh at the Chinese Athletics Championships. His gradual improvement continued into 2009, with a new best of 66.15 m (217 ft 01⁄4 in) coming at the 11th Chinese Games which was enough for sixth place.
He bettered his national placing by one spot in 2010 and in 2011 he marked himself among the nations best throwers with a mark of 69.59 m (228 ft 33⁄4 in).
Wang was runner-up to Qi Dakai at the 2012 Chinese Championships. That year he had two wins on the Chinese Athletics Grand Prix circuit and was runner-up at the national university games.
Qi and Wang both broke new ground in Chengdu in April 2013: Wang threw a best of 73.25 m (240 ft 33⁄4 in) while Qi went nine centimetres better – the first time two Chinese men had thrown so far in the same competition. Wang threw beyond seventy metres on several occasions that year, with his most prominent performance came at the 12th Chinese Games in his home province of Liaoning.
There he became the second best Chinese male hammer thrower in history by clearing a games record mark of 75.20 m (246 ft 81⁄2 in) – only Bi Zhong (Chinese record holder since 1989) had thrown further.
Out of competition, Wang received a public warning in June after a positive test for hydrochlorothiazide (a banned diuretic but a minor infraction of the doping code). His female counterpart, Wang Zheng, broke the Asian record at that competition. He was runner-up at the in July and took that same position at the 2014 Asian Games, finishing behind Tajikistan"s Dilshod Nazarov.
