Liu Chunhua is a Chinese javelin thrower. She is a two-time Asian Champion in the event and won gold medal

Gold medal

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s at the Chinese National Games and East Asian Games

East Asian Games

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 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

Hunan

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 Province, she was seventh at the 2005 Chinese National Games

Athletics at the 10th National Games of the People's Republic of China

At the 10th National Games of the People's Republic of China, the athletics events were held at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, PR China from 17 to 22 October 2005. A total of 46 events were contested, 24 by male and 22 by female athletes...

. 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

2009 World Championships in Athletics

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, 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

Athletics at the 11th National Games of the People's Republic of China

At the 11th National Games of the People's Republic of China, the athletics events were held at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center in Jinan, People's Republic of China from 21–26 October, 2009. The National Games marathon event was held in conjunction with the Beijing Marathon on 18 October.-Medal...

 with another best of 60.65 m. The 2009 Asian Athletics Championships

2009 Asian Athletics Championships

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 held the next month in Guangzhou

Guangzhou

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 brought her another gold medal

Gold medal

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 as she and Li Lingwei took the top two spots for the host nation. Liu threw beyond the 60-metre mark again at December's 2009 East Asian Games

Athletics at the 2009 East Asian Games

At the 2009 East Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China from 10 December to 13 December...

 to win her third gold on home soil in 2009, while it was Zhang Li who completed the Chinese 1–2 medal sweep on that occasion.

Following a low-key 2010, when she was sixth nationally and had a year's best of 58.49 m, she returned to form in the 2011 outdoor season. Liu equalled her personal best exactly at a Chinese Grand Prix meet in April and continued her regional dominance at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships

2011 Asian Athletics Championships

The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium. The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four-day competition....

, where she won a second consecutive javelin title.