Huang Guanjun (; 1987 – 22 May 2021) was a Chinese marathon runner; he died in the Gansu ultramarathon disaster. Huang was the champion in the men's hearing-impaired marathon at China's 2019

National Paralympic Games The National Paralympic Games are high-level multi-sport events held at the national level by the International Paralympic Committee and national Paralympic Committees in non-Olympic years. The events provide competitions for disabled athletes. T ...

. He died on 22 May 2021, at the age of 34, when high winds and freezing rain struck a long-distance race in Baiyin,

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, China. Twenty other runners died in the tragedy. He had impaired hearing after an "injection error" when he was one year old, and also could not speak. Having difficulty finding employment, he had, according to his friends, "joined races over the years in the hopes of winning some prize money".

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