Yang Junxuan

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Yang Junxuan
Yang at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
NationalityChinese
Born (2002-01-26) 26 January 2002
Zibo, Shandong, China[1]
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [2]
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 2 3
World Championships (LC) 1 0 1
World Championships (SC) 1 1 1
Asian Games 4 3 1
Summer Youth Olympics 2 2 2
Total 9 8 8
Women's swimming
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2020 Tokyo4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place2024 Paris4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris4x100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place2022 Budapest200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2023 Fukuoka4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2018 Hangzhou4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2018 Hangzhou4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2018 Hangzhou4×100 m freestyle
Military World Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan4X100 m mixed freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Wuhan4x100 m mixed medley
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta-Palembang4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2018 Jakarta-Palembang4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal – first place2022 Hangzhou4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2022 Hangzhou4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place2018 Jakarta-Palembang200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2018 Jakarta-Palembang4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Hangzhou100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2018 Jakarta-Palembang100 m freestyle
Summer Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place2018 Buenos Aires4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place2018 Buenos Aires4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place2018 Buenos Aires100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2018 Buenos Aires200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2018 Buenos Aires50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2018 Buenos Aires4×100 m mixed freestyle

Yang Junxuan (Chinese: 杨浚瑄; pinyin: Yáng Jùnxuān, born 26 January 2002) is a Chinese swimmer specializing in freestyle events.[3] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay.

Career

Yang competed at the 2018 Asian Games in the following competitions: 100 metre freestyle winning bronze in 54.17, 200 metre freestyle winning silver in 1:57.48, women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay winning the silver medal and 4 x 200 m freestyle relay winning gold.[4]

At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Yang won bronze in the 50 metre freestyle event in 25.47, silver in the 100 metre freestyle event in 54.43 and silver in the 200 metre freestyle event in 1:58.05, as well as gold in the 4 x 100 metre relay event (her time of 53.99 being the best of all participants) and gold in the mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay event.[5]

Yang Junxuan won gold in all seven swimming events she competed in at the 2019 Wuhan Military World Games.[6]

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, Yang contributed to China's gold medal in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay, with her team setting a world record. She also won silver in the 4x100 metre mixed medley.[7][8]

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Yang and her team won bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relays and set a new Asian record with a time of 3:30.30, surpassing their previous record from the 2023 World Championships. Yang, who was in the starting leg, set a new Chinese national record in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 52.48.[9] Yang's 51.96 final freestyle anchor-leg swim in the Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay race helped her team beat the previous world record time of 3:37.58 set by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 3:37.55, however she and her team had to settle for the Silver medal as the U.S. swim team captured the Gold medal with a faster new world record time of 3:37.43.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. "Yang Junxuan". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  2. "Swimming, YANG Junxuan". Archived from the original on 27 September 2023.
  3. "Yang Junxuan". Asian Games 2018. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  4. "Swimming: Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay". Asian Games 2018. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. "Buenos Aires 2018 profile Yang Junxuan". Buenos Aires 2018. Archived from the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  6. Sports, Sina (23 October 2019). "军运会中国揽游泳七成金牌 杨浚瑄七冠封多金王". Sina. www.sports.sina.cn. Retrieved 23 October 2024. 杨浚瑄在本次军运会上一共取得七金（（女子100米自由泳、女子200米自由泳、男女4乘100米自由泳混合接力、男女4乘100米混合泳接力、女子4乘100米自由泳接力、女子4乘100米混合泳接力、女子4乘200米自由泳接接力））。在所有42项比赛里，中国队拿下27金14银8铜，拿下近七成冠军，打破19项赛会纪录和一项全国纪录 - 男女混合4乘100米自由泳决赛，季新杰、何峻毅、朱梦惠和杨浚瑄 3分26秒04... (Yang Junxuan won a total of seven gold medals in these Military Games; women's 100m freestyle; women's 200m freestyle; mixed 4x100m freestyle medley relay; mixed 4x100m medley relay; women's 4x100m freestyle relay; women's 4x100m medley relay; women's 4x200m freestyle relay; in all, China's swim team won 42 of the pool racing events, consisting of 27 golds, 14 silvers and 8 bronzes... )
  7. "China stun US, Australia with world record in 200m freestyle relay". South China Morning Post. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  8. Bull, Andy (31 July 2021). "Team GB smash world record to win Tokyo 4x100m mixed medley relay gold". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  9. Race, Retta (27 July 2024). "Yang Junxuan Fires Off 52.48 100 Free CHN Record, Relay Scores Asian Record". SwimSwam. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  10. Writer, David Rieder-Senior (15 August 2024). "Paris Olympics: United States-China Mixed Medley Showdown Was Best Race of Games". Swimming World News. Retrieved 22 October 2024. The U.S. clocked 3:37.43, with China just behind at 3:37.55, both marginally quicker than the world record set by Great Britain three years earlier in Tokyo, while Australia was plenty elite in a bronze-medal performance...
  11. Charles, Michael (3 August 2024). "record in 4 x 100m mixed medley relay". Paris 2024 - Olympics.com. Retrieved 22 October 2024. The United States won the swimming mixed 4 x 100m medley relay gold medal at Paris 2024 on Saturday, 3 August, recording a world record time of 3:37.43. The People's Republic of China grabbed silver with a time of 3:37.55, followed by bronze medallists Australia with a time of 3:38.76. The previous world record of 3:37.58 was set by Great Britain at Tokyo 2020, where Team USA finished in fifth. Team GB finished in seventh in Saturday's final. China and Australia also placed second and third, respectively, at Tokyo 2020.