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| Born | 27 January 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m hurdles 7.62 (2025) 110m hurdles: 13.28 (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chen Yuanjiang (born 27 January 2006) is a Chinese sprint hurdler. [1]
In 2023, he won the Chinese National Students Games over 110 metres hurdles. He was a silver medalist in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2024 Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Dubai. His time of 13.26 seconds (1.2m/s) bettered the previous championship record as he finished 0.2 behind Qatar’s Oumar Doudai Abakar. [2] [3] [4]
He won a bronze medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, in 13.21 seconds setting a new national U20 record for junior sixed hurdles, having won his senior-final in 13.38 seconds. [5] [6]
Competing in June 2025 in Bengbu he lowered his personal best in the 110 metres hurdles to 13.28 seconds, placing him fourth all-time in the U20 category list for the senior sized hurdles in the event, behind only his compatriot Liu Xiang (13.12 seconds), and Americans Ja'Kobe Tharp, and Renaldo Nehemiah. [7] He was a semi-finalist competing at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the men's 110 metres hurdles in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025. [8]
