Jiang Yonghua (; born September 7, 1973 in

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) is a female

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track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

. She is a former world record holder for the Women's 500 m Time Trial, which was set on August 11, 2002 in

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with a time of 34.000 seconds. On 20 August 2004, she also broke the Olympic record at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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, setting a time of 34.112 seconds, but was beaten by

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a few minutes later, with new Olympic and world record time of 33.952 seconds. Yonghua began cycling career with the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Team C in October 1989. She became a member of the Beijing team in December 1999.

Palmarès

;2001 :1st 500 m Time Trial, Chinese National Championships ;2002 :1st 500 m Time Trial, round of

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:1st 500 m Time Trial, Asian Games ;2003 :1st 500 m Time Trial, Chinese National Championships :5th 500 m Time Trial,

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;2004 :2nd 500 m Time Trial,

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:2nd 500 m Time Trial,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jiang, Yonghua 1973 births Living people Chinese female cyclists Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of China Olympic silver medalists for China People from Jixi Olympic medalists in cycling Cyclists from Heilongjiang Asian Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China 21st-century Chinese women