Yang Jiayu

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
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.

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]

  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.