Wu Yanan (canoeist)

Wu Yanan
Personal information
Nationality China
Born (1985-12-08) 8 December 1985
Chuzhou, Anhui, China
Height1.69 m (5 ft 6+12 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
EventSprint canoe
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  China
Asian Games
2010 GuangzhouK-4 500 m
Asian Championships
2011 TehranK-2 200 m
2011 TehranK-2 500 m
2011 TehranK-4 500 m
2013 SamarkandK-1 200 m
2015 PalembangK-2 200 m

Wu Yanan (simplified Chinese: 吴 亚男; traditional Chinese: 吳 亞男; pinyin: Wú Yànán; born December 8, 1985, in Chuzhou, Anhui) is a Chinese sprint canoeist. She won a gold medal, as a member of the Chinese women's kayak four team, at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, with a time of 1:34.440.

Wu represented China at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Wu and her partner Zhou Yu narrowly missed out on an Olympic medal in the A-final by almost fourteen hundredths of a second (0.14), finishing behind the Polish bronze-medal winning pair of Karolina Naja and Beata Mikołajczyk, with a time of 1:44.136.