Chen Qingchen
Chen Qingchen is a Chinese former badminton player who specialized in doubles. She is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time Asian Champion. With partner Jia Yifan, Chen won silver in women's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics and gold in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Chen has achieved a world-first ranking in two categories: mixed doubles with Zheng Siwei in December 2016, and women's doubles with Jia Yifan in November 2017.
Chen started her achievements under her coach Li Yongbo, with partner in the women's doubles Jia Yifan, and in the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei. She ended the 2016 BWF Season by winning the BWF Most Promising Player of the Year. She won titles at the 2016 BWF Superseries Finals in both the women's and mixed doubles. In 2017, Chen was awarded the BWF Best Female Player of the Year, after entering the Dubai World Superseries Finals as the first seed in both women's and mixed doubles, and also winning women's doubles gold and mixed doubles silver at the 2017 BWF World Championships. In women's doubles, she won gold medals at the 2021, 2022 and 2023 World Championships, 2018 and 2022 Asian Games, and at the 2019 Asian Championships.
Career
In 2023, Chen and Jia Yifan helped the national team reach the final of the Sudirman Cup by winning the deciding rubber, beating fellow former world no. 1 pair Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota in straight games. The team then ended the tournament by lifting the cup for 13 times. In August, Chen and Jia won the World Championships title by beating Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti in the final. The duo becoming the first women's doubles to win four golds in the World Championships history. In October, they won the Denmark Open, becoming the first Chinese women's doubles pair to win defend the title.At the 2024 Summer Olympics, with partner Jia Yifan, Chen won gold in the women's doubles event, defeating compatriots Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning 2–0 in the finals.
Achievements
Olympic Games
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| 2020 | Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan |  World ChampionshipsWomen's doubles
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