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Yang Jiayu

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Yang Jiayu
Personal information
Born (1996-02-18) 18 February 1996 (age 28)
Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight48 kg (106 lb)[1]
Sport
Country China
SportAthletics
Event20 km Race Walk
Medal record
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 20 km walk
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 20 km walk
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta 20 km walk
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 20 km walk

Yang Jiayu (Chinese: 杨家玉; born 18 February 1996)[1] is a Chinese race walker and Olympic champion. She specialises in the women's 10 kilometres and 20 kilometres race walk events, and she holds the world record in the latter. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Yang won gold in the 20 kilometres walk.[2] She also won the 20 kilometre walk at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.[3]

Biography

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In May 2014, Yang participated in the 2014 World Cup, placing second in the women's 10 km (junior) event in 43:37, behind Duan Dandan.

On August 13, 2017, Yang won the 20 km race at the 2017 World Championships with a personal best of 1:26:18, ahead of Mexican María Guadalupe González and Italian Antonella Palmisano. Her compatriot, Lü Xiuzhi, was dramatically disqualified just about 20 metres away from winning the bronze medal.[4]

In 2019, Yang competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[5] She was disqualified after a fourth red card.[5]

In 2021, Yang set a new world record in the women's 20km race walk, with a time of 1:23:49 at the Chinese Race Walking Championships in Huangshan.[6]

At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Yang won the gold medal in the 20 kilometre race walk event.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Yang Jiayu". data.star.sports.cn. Chinese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Athletics-China's Yang secures women's race walk gold". The Straits Times. 2024-08-01. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  3. ^ "20 Kilometres Race Walk Women − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Athletics: Yang takes 20km walk gold in dramatic finish on Mall". Reuters. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Women's 20 kilometres walk" (PDF). IAAF - 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Yang smashes world 20km race walk record with 1:23:49". World Athletics. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Women's 20km Race Walk Results". 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
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