Wang Meng (speed skater)

Wang Meng is a Chinese short track speed skater, born on April 10, 1985, and a four-time Olympic champion who was the 2008 and 2009 Overall World Champion. She is the most decorated Chinese Winter Olympic athlete, with four Olympic gold medals, a silver and a bronze. At the 2006 Winter Olympics she won gold in the 500 m, silver in the 1000 m and bronze in the 1500 m, and at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics she won the 500 m and 1000 m and added a third gold in the 3000 m relay with the Chinese team. She has also won 18 gold medals at the World Championships and is one of the most decorated short track speed skaters of all time. She started short track speed skating in 1994 at the age of nine, entered the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports School in 1998, and graduated from the Harbin Institute of Physical Education. She was expelled from the national team in August 2011 after a conflict with her team manager, and a broken ankle suffered in training in January 2014 meant she missed the 2014 Winter Olympics.