Huang Wenpan (22 August 1995 – 15 March 2018) was a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. He won five gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics: at the Men's 50 metre freestyle S3 event with a world record and paralympic record of 39.24, at the Men's 200 metre freestyle S3 event with a world record and paralympic record of 3:09.04, at the Men's 50 metre breaststroke SB2 event with a world record and paralympic record of 50.65 at the Men's 150 metre individual medley SM3 event with a world record and paralympic record of 2:40.19. and at the Mixed 4 x 50 metre freestyle relay 20pts event with a world record and paralympic record of 2:18.03. He also won a silver medal at the Men's 50 metre backstroke S3 event with 46.11.

Death

Huang Wenpan died on 16 March 2018 after succumbing to injuries following a car accident where he drove the car alone which crashed into a lamp post.

Huang Wenpan

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1995 births

2018 deaths

Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic gold medalists for China

Paralympic silver medalists for China

Paralympic swimmers for China

Chinese male medley swimmers

Chinese male freestyle swimmers

Chinese male breaststroke swimmers

Chinese male backstroke swimmers

Road incident deaths in the People's Republic of China

People from Meishan

Swimmers from Sichuan

Paralympic medalists in swimming

S3-classified para swimmers

21st-century Chinese people

Huang Wenpan