Chen Qingchen

Chen Qingchen (Chinese: 陈清晨; pinyin: Chén Qīngchén; born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player who specializes in doubles. She is four-time World Champions, two-time Asian Games gold medalists, and two-time Asian Champions. Besides that, Chen also won silver medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's doubles, and at the 2017 World Championships in the mixed doubles. She was ranked first in two category, reached the world number 1 in the mixed doubles with Zheng Siwei in December 2016, and in the women's doubles with Jia Yifan in November 2017.

She started her achievements under her coach Li Yongbo, with partner in the women's doubles Jia Yifan, and in the mixed doubles Zheng Siwei. She ended the 2016 BWF Season by winning the BWF Most Promising Player of the Year, also completed her success by winning titles at the 2016 BWF Superseries Finals in the women's and mixed doubles categories respectively. In 2017, she was awarded as the BWF Best Female Player of the Year, after came to Dubai World Superseries Finals as the first seeded both in women's and mixed doubles, and also won the women's doubles gold and mixed doubles silver medals at the 2017 BWF World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. In women's doubles, she also won gold medals at the 2021, 2022 and 2023 World Championships, 2018 and 2022 Asian Games, and at the 2019 Asian Championships.

Career

In 2023, Chen and Jia Yifan 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, Chen and Jia 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 win defend the title.

Achievements

Olympic Games

Women's doubles

World Championships

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Asian Games

Women's doubles

Asian Championships

Women's doubles

World Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Mixed doubles

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Mixed doubles

BWF World Tour (19 titles, 8 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Women's doubles

BWF Superseries (12 titles, 7 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

  BWF Superseries Finals tournament

  BWF Superseries Premier tournament

  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (13 titles, 3 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles)

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

  BWF International Challenge tournament

Performance timeline

Key

National team

• Junior level

• Senior level

Individual competitions

Junior level

Girls' doubles

Mixed doubles

Senior level

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

References

External links

• Chen Qingchen at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com