Yang Chen (parathlete)
Paralympic athlete of China
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Yang Chen (Chinese: 杨晨, born 29 January 1989 in Tianjin) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
Born29 January 1989
Tianjin, China
SportParalympic athletics
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Biography
Yang Chen competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. He won a gold medal in the T37 100m and silver medals in the T37 200m, T37 400m and was part of the Chinese relay teams that won silver medals in both the T35-38 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relays. When the Paralympics took place in 2008 in his home country Yang Chen was not quite as busy only competing in the 200m and as part of the 4 × 100 m T35-38 team that won a silver medal.[1]