Xue Chen (; born 18 February 1989 in

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) is a

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player, measuring in height. Her hometown is Fuzhou, but she trains in

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. She has also trained in

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under coach Dane Selznick. She competed at the 2020 Olympics with X. Wang in Tokyo held in 2021.

Career

Xue began playing

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as a child, but disliked the physical contact of that sport. She then played

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from the age of 10 to 13 before settling into beach volleyball. She began training for her sports career in 2000 at the Fuzhou Sports Training School. In 2002, she attended the Athletic Sports College of Fuzhou and became a member of the Chinese national beach volleyball team. Xue then made her Swatch-FIVB World Tour debut in 2005, playing in two events with

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and winning the FIVB Top Rookie award for 2006. Early 2006 Xue became the youngest player to ever win a major event, when on 28 May 2006 the 17-year-old won the $400,000 China Shanghai Jinshan Open. Later in 2006, Xue and Zhang Xi won the gold medal in the women's team competition at the

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. The pair also won the bronze medal in women's beach volleyball at the

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. The pair had great success in 2010, which included winning the Grand Slam in Moscow, Russia, for the second time. They also achieved an extraordinary gold-medal win on the FIVB World Tour Women's Final in Åland, Finland, by snapping the record gold-medal winning-streak of Brazil's

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– Silva duo on 21 August 2010. In 2009 they won the gold medal at the Asian Beach Volleyball Championships in Haikou, China, and retained the title in 2010. They then went on to win gold at the Sanya Open in Hainan, the Guangzhou Asian Games, and the Asian Beach Games. The team of Xue and Zhang were ranked 4th overall on the 2010

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and finished the season ranked first in the FIVB World Rankings. Xue and Zhang represented China in the

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and ended 4th in the female beach volleyball competition. She competed at the 2020 Olympics with X. Wang in Tokyo held in 2021.

Playing partners

* Zhang Xi 2010–present * Zhang Ying 2008–2009 * Zhang Xi 2006–2008 * Yan Ni 2003–2006 * Xia Xinyi 2017–present * Ma Yuanyuan 2017–Present * X. Wang (at 2020 Olympics in Tokyo held in 2021)

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Career

Playing partners

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