Who was China's first track and field world champion

Xu Yongjiu.

Xu Yongjiu, born in 1964, is a track and field athlete from Jinzhou, Dalian, Liaoning Province. A former amateur middle-distance runner, she joined the Liaoning Provincial Women's Race Walking Team in 1981. She won the Third World Race Walking Championships, the first world championship in Chinese track and field history.

In 1983, Xu Yongjiu participated in the Third World Cup Race Walking Competition on behalf of the Chinese team, as the main player of the Chinese team, together with her companions, picked up the women's 10 kilometers race walking team project the pearl of laurels - "Aisbauen Cup", and 43 minutes 13 seconds 4 time won the individual title. The result of 43 minutes, 13 seconds and 4 seconds of individual first place, the world's best record, but also become China's first track and field world champion.

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In 1984 in the Norwegian International Invitational Race Walking Championships, Xu Yongjiu broke the 5,000-meter mark in 21 minutes, 41 seconds. 21 minutes and 41 seconds to break the world record for 5000 meters, and then in the Danish International Race Walking Race, with 21 minutes and 48 seconds to record 5 kilometers of walking the world's best results. In the same year in the national fall race walking competition, with 46 minutes and 52 seconds, 22 minutes and 18 seconds 4 results were reached 10 kilometers, 5000 meters race walking athletic standard.

In 1985, in the national spring marathon, race walking competition, Xu Yongjiu with 44 minutes and 45 seconds to break the women's 10 kilometers race walking world record; in the same year in the fourth world cup race walking competition, once again for the Chinese team to reign as the women's 10 kilometers race walking team champion to set up the credit.

In 1986, Xu Yongjiu won the champion of 10,000 meters in the National Spring Race Walking Competition; in the same year, she won the silver medal of 10 kilometers race walking in the 10th Asian Games.

Source:Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Yongjiu