Chen Yujie (Chinese: 陈妤颉, born 29 December 2008) is a Chinese sprinter. She is the Asian youth record holder in the 100 metres and won the 100 metres gold medal and 200 metres silver medal at the 2026 Asian Games as a 17 year-old, winning four medals in total at the Games after the relay races.
She became senior Chinese national champion over the 100 metres distance in 2024, as well as winning the gold medal at the 2024 Asian U20 Athletics Championships and the 2025 National Games of China, she was 100 metres champion at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships.
Early life She was born in the city of Ningbo, in east China's Zhejiang Province. Both of her parents are former athletes.
Career In 2023, she ran times of 11.56 seconds and 11.43 seconds in the 100 metres races at the World School Sport Games and the Student (Youth) Games of the People's Republic of China, respectively.
In March 2024, she won the Chinese Athletics Indoor Championships over 60 metres, with a personal best time of 7.26 seconds in Tianjin. In April 2024, she won the 100 metres at the 2024 Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in a time of 11.32 seconds, breaking the championship record also her own national youth record of 11.43 seconds and the U18 Asian youth record of 11.42 seconds. In June 2024, she won the 100 metres at the Chinese national championships with a new personal best and Asian under-18 record time of 11.29 seconds. She competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024.
She made her senior championship debut as a sixteen year-old at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, where she was the youngest athlete at the championships. She ran in the same heat at Turkmenistan's Valentina Meredova who previously competed at the 2008 Olympic Games, before Yujie was born. She finished fourth in the 200 metres at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, with a personal best time of 22.99 seconds, in April 2025. She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou in the Women's 4 × 100 metres relay in May 2025. In September 2025, she competed in the 200 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. She also ran in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the championships. On 17 November 2025, she won the 100 metres title at the 2025 National Games of China in Guangzhou, running a new Asian under-20 record time of 11.10s.
In May 2026, she ran at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay in Gaborone, Botswana. On 16 May, she ran a personal best 22.84 seconds (+0.3) for the 200 metres at the 2026 Shanghai Diamond League. On August 12, 2026, she ran a personal best in the 100 m dash in the finals of the China National Athletics Championships, finishing with a time of 11.08 seconds. This surpassed her previous personal best of 11.10, and once again broke the Asian under-20 100 m record. On 25 September 2026, still aged 17 year-old, she ran 11.06 seconds in the 100 m final at the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan to win the gold medal. Her time broke the previous Games record of 11.15 seconds, as well as lowering her own Asian under-20 100 m record. Later at the Games, she went on to win the silver medal in the 200 metres final, and won a third medal with gold in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay with the China team. She won a fourth medal at the Games after anchoring the mixed 4 x 100 metres relay team to the gold medal.
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