Sun Yingjie

Sun Yingjie
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  China
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Paris 10,000 m
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan 10,000 m
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Manila 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Manila 10,000 m
World Half Marathon Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Delhi Half marathon

Sun Yingjie (simplified Chinese: 孙英杰; traditional Chinese: 孫英傑; pinyin: Sūn Yīngjié; born January 19, 1979, in Sujiatun, Shenyang, Liaoning) is a Chinese female long-distance runner who competes in events ranging from 5000 metres to the marathon. She rose to prominence by winning two gold medals at the 2002 Asian Games. In 2003, she won a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Paris. She won two golds at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships and won the Beijing Marathon in an Asian record time that year.

She represented China at the 2004 Athens Olympics, reaching the top eight in the 5000 m and 10,000 m finals, and set a national record to win the gold at the 2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. The following year Sun ran at the 2005 World Championships and won the Beijing Marathon for a second time. Two days after her win, she won a silver medal at the 2005 National Games of China, but failed a drug test. A former training partner confessed in court to spiking her drink with androsterone, but she still received a two-year ban from the sport. She returned to competition in 2008 but was far from her best form and did not qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Sun Yingjie has an easily recognizable running style where her arms are almost completely extended and point straight down.