Yang Junxuan
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Yang Junxuan (simplified Chinese: 杨浚瑄; traditional Chinese: 楊浚瑄; pinyin: Yáng Jùnxuān, born 26 January 2002) is a Chinese swimmer specializing in Freestyle events.[3] At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, Yang won gold in the 4x200 meter 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]
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, Yang contributed to China's gold medal in the 4x200 meter freestyle relay, with her team setting a world record. She also won silver in the 4x100 meter mixed medley.[6][7]
In April 2024, the New York Times reported that Yang along with 22 other top Chinese swimmers had tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency, in the lead up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. The urine tests were conducted on 39 athletes at a meet hosted by the Chinese national swimming association between December 2020 and January 2021.[8] During a press release, the World Anti-Doping Agency said that the levels of TMZ found in Chinese swimmers were not capable of producing any enhancement in performance at the concentrations found and were due to an environmental contamination.[9]
In June 2024, the New York Times published another article, reporting that Yang, along with swimmers Wang Shun and Qin Haiyang, had tested positive for low levels of Clenbuterol. WADA described the athletes' levels of clenbuterol as “so low that they were between 6 and 50 times lower than the minimum reporting level". In a statement to the New York Times, WADA Director General, Oliver Niggli, explained that these cases were due to accidental contamination, and not intentional ingestion. Niggli said, "They were elite level swimmers who were tested on a very frequent basis in a country where meat contamination with clenbuterol is widespread so it is hardly surprising that they could be among the hundreds of athletes who also tested positive for tiny amounts of the substance”. Yang was 14 or 15 years old at the time of these tests in 2017, and went on to win gold and silver medals at the 2020 Tokyo Games.[10]
In 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-meter freestyle with a time of 52.48.[11]
See also
References
- ^ "Yang Junxuan". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n2008016-yang-junxuan.htm
- ^ "Yang Junxuan". Asian Games 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Swimming: Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay". Asian Games 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Buenos Aires 2018 profile Yang Junxuan". Buenos Aires 2018. Archived from the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ "China stun US, Australia with world record in 200m freestyle relay". South China Morning Post. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schmidt, Michael; Panja, Tariq (20 April 2024). "Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive For Banned Drug, Then Won Three Olympic Gold Medals". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ "WADA publishes media conference recording regarding environmental contamination case of swimmers from China". 22 April 2024.
- ^ Schmidt, Michael; Panja, Tariq (14 June 2024). "Chinese Swimmers Twice Tested Positive for Drugs. They Kept on Swimming". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Race, Retta (27 July 2024). "Yang Junxuan Fires Off 52.48 100 Free CHN Record, Relay Scores Asian Record". SwimSwam. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
External links
- Yang Junxuan at World Aquatics
- Yang Junxuan at SwimRankings.net
- Yang Junxuan at Olympics.com
- Yang Junxuan at Olympedia
- Yang Junxuan at the Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games (archived)
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Zibo
- Swimmers from Shandong
- Chinese female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- Youth Olympic gold medalists for China
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for China
- Olympic silver medalists for China
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Swimmers at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for China
- Asian Games silver medalists for China
- Asian Games bronze medalists for China
- Asian Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 21st-century Chinese women
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics