Leng Xueyan

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Leng Xueyan
Medal record
Women's
athletics
Representing  China
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Hiroshima 400 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 1994 Hiroshima 4×400 m relay
Asian Athletics Championships
Silver medal – second place 1993 Manila 400 m hurdles
In this Chinese name, the family name is Leng.

Leng Xueyan (

4×400 metres relay
.

Career

Leng's first international medal came at the 1990 Asian Junior Athletics Championships held in Beijing. She won the 400 m hurdles gold medal with a time of 57.79 seconds. This stood as the championship record for over a decade, finally being broken by another Chinese hurdler, Wang Xing, in 2004.[1] She emerged as a senior athlete at the 1993 Chinese National Games with a performance of 54.52 seconds to claim third place in a race won in an Asian record by Han Qing.[2] This time ranked Leng tenth in the world for the event that season.[3]

Her senior international debut followed a few months later at the

Natalya Torshina.[4] In 1994 she won her first and only national title at the Chinese Athletics Championships with a time of 56.28 seconds.[5] This gained her selection for China at the Asian Games
later that year.

Leng defeated both Torshina and

4×400 metres relay in a Chinese team of Zhang Hengyun, Cao Chunying and Ma Yuqin and the quartet won the gold medal in a Games record of 3:29.11 minutes (Leng's second of the tournament).[10] Despite being only 22 years old, this was the last major medal of her career and 1994 was the last time she ranked in the top twenty athletes globally.[11]

National titles

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
1990 Asian Junior Championships Beijing, China 1st 400 m hurdles 57.79 CR
1993 Asian Championships Manila, Philippines 2nd 400 m hurdles 57.02
1994 Asian Games Hiroshima, Japan 1st 400 m hurdles 55.26 GR

Notes

  • nb There are conflicting sources for her birthdate, with the IAAF listing 14 February 1972 and other sources listing 11 January 1972.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ Asian Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  2. ^ 7th National Games medallists Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese). jx918. Retrieved on 2013-03-30.
  3. ^ Leng Xueyan. Brinkster. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  4. ^ Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  5. ^ Chinese Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  6. ^ Asian Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  7. ^ Minshull, Phil (2014-09-30). Hadadi's discus hat-trick makes Iran happy at the Asian Games". IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  8. ^ 17th Asian Games – HURDLE RACES – New champions will emerge. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  9. ^ Chinese hand out long bans. The Independent (1994-12-21). Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  10. ^ Women's relay medallists Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
  11. ^ a b Xueyan Leng. Brinkster Track and Field. Retrieved on 2015-11-14.
  12. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2015-11-14.

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