Chen Jingyue
Jingyue Chen | |
|---|---|
| Born | c.2001 |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Occupation | professional athlete |
| Known for | competing at Formula Kite |
Jingyue Chen (born c. 2001) is a Chinese Formula Kite professional athlete who became the Asian, and the Asia & Oceania, champion in 2023.
Life
Chen was born on Pingtan Island in about 2001 and brought up there. When she was twelve, she was introduced to the sport of kiteboarding. She was chosen because she was athletic and local to the site chosen by Zhai Dahui to develop the water and wind based sport. She began to learn how to use a surfboard powered by a kite. The board was powered by its rider as they held a large kite. In time the board could be fitted with a hydrofoil so that it would rise out of the air. This sport was kitefoiling and one interpretation would become an Olympic sport named Formula Kite for the 2024 Olympics.[1]
Chen became a professional kiteboarder in 2021 and she then found that she had to work hard to complete the training regime required. She had joined the Chinese national kiteboarding team three years before when it was established by the Chinese Yachting Association.[2]
She competed in September 2023 in the postponed 19th Asian Games at Pingtan Island and she took the gold medal.[1] The Games began with the kite competitions at the Ningbo Xiangshan Sailing Centre. Chen won the event becoming the Asian champion with Thailand's Benyapa Jantawan at silver and the bronze earned by Lee Young-eun of South Korea.[1]
In November 2023 the Formula Kite Asia & Oceania Championships was being held in Shenzhen in China. The championship was won by Chen and her fellow Chinese kitesurfer, Wan Li, took silver with the Polish surfer Julia Damasiewicz third.[3]
The Paris Olympics start at the end of July in 2024. In August for the first time Formula Kite will be contested as an Olympic sport. Chen has been chosen as one of the forty contestants representing China. She was awarded the place after she came eighth at the Sailing World Championships in The Hague in the previous August.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b c 关晓萌. "Sky's the limit for China's kitefoil champion". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ a b CGTN. "Chen Jingyue overcomes various challenges for her Olympic dream". news.cgtn.com. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ New, Gerald (2023-11-26). "Formula Kite Asia & Oceania Championships – Final day medal series". Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ "Formula Kite: the 40 qualified athletes for Paris 2024". Surfer Today. 12 January 2024.
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