[1] Wang won his first Olympic medal in the Los Angeles games at the age of 23.

In 1996, Wang had a two-point pre-final lead over Roberto Di Donna of Italy, and seemed to be the clear winner until in the last shot he got only 6.5 (at a level where anything below 9.0 is considered a very bad shot), and lost the gold medal by the closest possible margin, 0.1 point.

Related to this was a collapse due to medical issues coupled with the extreme heat in Atlanta that day.

[2] In 2000, both Wang and Franck Dumoulin (France) scored 590 points and tied for a new Olympic record.

In the 2004 competition, Wang scored 590 once more but lost the Olympic record to Mikhail Nestruev (Russia) who achieved 591; however, the Chinese managed to erase the small gap and eventually won by a margin of 0.2 points to get his second Olympic gold.