Yin Xiaoyan
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| Born | 28 August 1993 Henan, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Karate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 61 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yin Xiaoyan (尹 笑言, born 28 August 1993)[1] is a Chinese karateka. She won the silver medal in the women's 61 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[2][3] At the 2018 World Karate Championships in Madrid, Spain, she won the silver medal in the women's kumite 61 kg event.[4]
She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 61 kg event at the 2016 World University Karate Championships held in Braga, Portugal.[5][6]
In 2018, she won the gold medal in the women's kumite 61 kg event at the Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.[1] In the final she defeated Rozita Alipour of Iran. Four years earlier, she won one of the bronze medals in the same event at the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea.
She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in karate.[7][8] She won the silver medal in the women's 61 kg event.[3]
