Chen Qingchen | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 陳清晨 | ||||||||||||
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Chen Qingchen (Chinese: 陈清晨; pinyin: Chén Qīngchén; born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player who specializes in doubles.[1] She is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time Asian Champion. With partner Jia Yifan, Chen won silver in women's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics and gold in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Chen has achieved a world-first ranking in two categories: mixed doubles with Zheng Siwei in December 2016, and women's doubles with Jia Yifan in November 2017.
Chen started her achievements under her coach Li Yongbo, with partner in the women's doubles Jia Yifan, and in the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei.[2] She ended the 2016 BWF Season by winning the BWF Most Promising Player of the Year. She won titles at the 2016 BWF Superseries Finals in both the women's and mixed doubles.[3] In 2017, Chen was awarded the BWF Best Female Player of the Year, after entering the Dubai World Superseries Finals as the first seed in both women's and mixed doubles, and also winning women's doubles gold and mixed doubles silver at the 2017 BWF World Championships.[4] In women's doubles, she won gold medals at the 2021, 2022 and 2023 World Championships, 2018 and 2022 Asian Games, and at the 2019 Asian Championships.[5]