Jia Yifan
Jia Yifan is a Chinese badminton player and Olympic champion. With partner Chen Qingchen, Jia won silver in women's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics and gold in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Jia won four gold medals at the World Championships in 2017, 2021, 2022, and 2023. She also won two gold medals at the Asian Games in [Badminton at the Badminton at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's doubles|2018 Asian Games|2018] and 2022, as well as at the 2019 and 2022 Asian Championships. Jia was part of the Chinese winning team in the 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2025 Sudirman Cup, and also at the 2020 Uber Cup. She also won silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She reached a career-high ranking of world number 1 in the women's doubles with Chen Qingchen in November 2017.
Career
In 2023, Jia and Chen Qingchen 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, Jia and Chen 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 defend the title.At the 2024 Summer Olympics, with partner Chen Qingchen, Jia won gold in the women's doubles event, defeating compatriots Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning 2–0 in the finals.
In October 2025, Jia was elected as BWF Athletes' Commission.
Achievements
Olympic Games
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| 2020 | Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan |  World ChampionshipsWomen's doubles
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