Yang Junxuan


Yang Junxuan is a Chinese swimmer specializing in freestyle events. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the Swimming at the [2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4x200 metre freestyle relay].

Career

Yang competed at the 2018 Asian Games in the following competitions: Swimming at the [2018 Asian Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 metre freestyle] winning bronze in 54.17, Swimming at the 2018 [Asian Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle|200 metre freestyle] winning silver in 1:57.48, 100 metre freestyle relay|women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay] winning the silver medal and 4 x 200 m freestyle relay winning gold.
At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Yang won bronze in the Swimming at the [2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' 50 metre freestyle|50 metre freestyle] event in 25.47, silver in the Swimming at the 2018 [Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' 100 metre freestyle|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 and gold in the mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay event.
Yang Junxuan won gold in all seven swimming events she competed in at the 2019 Wuhan Military World Games.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, Yang contributed to China's gold medal in the Swimming at the 2020 [Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4x200 metre freestyle relay], with her team setting a world record. She also won silver in the 4x100 metre mixed medley.
At the 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-metre freestyle with a time of 52.48. Yang's 51.96 final freestyle anchor-leg swim in the Swimming at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay|Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay race] helped her team beat the previous world record time of 3:37.58 set by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 3:37.55, however she and her team had to settle for the Silver medal as the U.S. swim team captured the Gold medal with a faster new world record time of 3:37.43.