Chen Yiwen (; born 15 June 1999) is a Chinese diver.

Early life

Born on 1999, Chen's father was from

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

, while her mother was from Zhanjiang, Guangdong. When she was almost nine years old, she went to

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

for training and entered sports school in

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of Zhanjiang to begin training for her diving career. In August 2008, she officially entered the

Zhongshan Zhongshan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 i ...

diving team. Soon after entering the Zhongshan team, Chen was selected into the Guangdong Provincial Sports School. In October 2010, Chen entered the Guangdong diving team and in 2014, she officially became a professional athlete.

Sports career

In November 2016, Chen was selected into the national diving team. On 17 May 2017, she won the women's 1m springboard diving at the 2017 China Diving Championship. In June 2018, she won the men's and women's mixed all-around diving at the

2018 FINA Diving World Cup The 2018 FINA Diving World Cup took place in Wuhan, China, from 4 to 10 June 2018. It was the 21st edition of the Diving World Cup, and the seventh time that it had been held in China. The venue was the natatorium of Wuhan Sports Center. Schedu ...

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. At the

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, Chen won the silver medal in 1m springboard.On 13 July 2019, she won the gold medal at the women's 1m springboard championship at

2019 World Aquatics Championships The 2019 World Aquatics Championships were the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships, held in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July 2019. The city had previously hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade aquatics events in the same venues.

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. In May 2021, at the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup in

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, she and Chang Yani won the women's double 3m diving, and she also won women's 3m springboard diving. In August 2021, Chen won gold medal in women's 3m springboard diving at the 14th National Games of China in

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. At the 19th FINA World Championships 2022 held in

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, Chen took part in the women's 3m springboard and won the gold medal with 366.90 points. She also won the gold medal at the women's synchronized 3m springboard alongside Chang Yani with 343.14 points. In 2023, at the

2022 Asian Games The 2022 Asian Games (), officially known as the 19th Asian Games (), also known as Hangzhou 2022, ( zh, c=杭州2022, p=Hángzhōu Èr líng èr èr), will be a multi-sport event celebrated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Hangzhou will be the t ...

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, Chen won gold in the 3 metre springboard and another gold with Chang in 3 metre synchro.

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