Liu Chunhua

Who is Liu Chunhua?

Liu Chunhua is a Chinese javelin thrower. She is a two-time Asian Champion in the event and won gold medals at the Chinese National Games and East Asian Games in 2009. Her personal best is a throw of 60.65 metres.

She began competing in the event as a teenager and in 2003 she threw a best of 58.03 metres. Representing Hunan Province, she was seventh at the 2005 Chinese National Games. Liu came sixth at the Chinese World Trials in 2007. Although the following year's Chinese championships were held after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she established herself at a national level by taking the Chinese javelin title in a personal best 59.04 m, finally improving upon her best mark she had set as a sixteen-year-old.

Liu missed the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but she had a rapid ascent at the regional level that year. She won the national title for a second time and improved her best to 59.55 m on the Chinese Grand Prix circuit. In October she won the javelin at the 2009 Chinese National Games with another best of 60.65 m.