Qu Yunxia

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Medal record

Qu Yunxia
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  China
Olympic Games
Bronze 1992 Barcelona 1500 m
World Championships
Gold 1993 Stuttgart 3000 m
World Junior Championships
Gold 1990 Plovdiv 1500 m

Qu Yunxia (simplified Chinese: 曲云霞; traditional Chinese: 曲雲霞; pinyin: Qǔ Yúnxiá; born 25 December 1972) is a Chinese Olympic athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won a bronze medal on 1500 m. In 1993 she achieved a new world record in Beijing on the 1500 m, in 3:50.46 minutes, and won the 3000 metres at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics.

Her coach, Ma Junren, claims that Traditional Chinese medicine like the fungus Cordyceps sinensis helps her physical condition.

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Records
Preceded by
Soviet Union Tatyana Kazankina		 Women's 1,500m World Record Holder
1993-09-11 —		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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World Champions in Women's 3000 and 5000 m
3000 m
1983: Mary Decker · 1987: Tetyana Dorovskikh · 1991: Tetyana Dorovskikh · 1993: Qu Yunxia
5000 m
1995: Sonia O'Sullivan · 1997: Gabriela Szabo · 1999: Gabriela Szabo · 2001: Olga Yegorova · 2003: Tirunesh Dibaba · 2005: Tirunesh Dibaba · 2007: Meseret Defar · 2009: Vivian Cheruiyot
Note: In 1995, the 3000 m was replaced by the 5000 m.
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World Best Year Performance in Women's 1500 m

 1970 – 1971: Karin Burneleit (GDR)  •  1972: Lyudmila Bragina (URS)  •  1973: Karin Krebs (GDR)  •  1974: Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR)  •  1975: Nina Morgunova (URS)  •  1976: Tatyana Kazankina (URS)  •  1977: Natalia Marasescu (ROM)  •  1978: Gyana Romanova (URS)  •  1979: Totka Petrova (BUL)  •  1980: Tatyana Kazankina (URS)  •  1981 – 1982: Olga Dvirna (URS)  •  1983: Mary Slaney (USA)  •  1984: Nadezhda Ralldugina (URS)  •  1985: Mary Slaney (USA)  •  1986: Doina Melinte (ROM)  •  1987: Tetyana Dorovskikh (URS)  •  1988 – 1989: Paula Ivan (ROU)  •  1990: Doina Melinte (ROM)  •  1991: Natalya Artyomova (RUS)  •  1992: Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)  •  1993: Qu Yunxia (CHN)  •  1994 – 1995: Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)  •  1996: Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)  •  1997: Jiang Bo (CHN)  •  1998: Gabriela Szabo (ROM)  •  1999: Violeta Szekely (ROM)  •  2000: Suzy Favor-Hamilton (USA)  •  2001: Violeta Szekely (ROM)  •  2002 – 2003: Süreyya Ayhan (TUR)  •  2004: Kelly Holmes (GBR)  •  2005: Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR)  •  2006: Yuliya Fomenko (RUS)  •  2007 – 2009: Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR)


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