Bai Xue (; name means ''White Snow''; born 15 December 1988) is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the

10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship-level events. The ...

Career

Bai won both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Asian Championships, and she finished fourth in the 5,000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships. She finished twenty-first in the 10,000 metres at the

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. She won the Beijing Marathon in 2008.

2009 World Championships

The Berlin 2009 Marathon event was Bai's first time taking part in World Championships and only second time taking part in an international marathon. She won the 2009 World Championships Women's Marathon gold medal, becoming the youngest ever women's world marathon champion at the age of 20. Bai pulled away from Japan's Yoshimi Ozaki in the last kilometer to finish the 42.195 km race in two hours 25 minutes and 15 seconds. Bai Xue became the first Chinese athlete to win a marathon race at the World Championships. It was also the first gold medal for China in the event in Berlin, taking its medal tally to 1-1-2. And it was also the first gold in 10 years for Chinese women athletes' at the world championships. Liu Hongyu won the last gold medal in the women's 10 km walk in Seville in 1999. She is also the second Chinese to win a major international marathon after Zhou Chunxiu, who took the

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title in 2007. She returned to China after the championships and defended her title at the Beijing Marathon, beating young national opposition in Zhang Xin and Zhu Xiaoling. She continued her good form at the 11th Chinese National Games a few weeks later, setting a 10,000 m personal best on the way to winning the gold medal. At the 2010 London Marathon, she was in contention for much of the race but fell away at the 30 km point, ending up in seventh place with a run of 2:25:18.Brown, Matthew (2010-04-25)
Commanding victories for Kebede and Shobukhova - London Marathon report

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. Retrieved on 2010-04-28.

Personal bests

Her personal best times are: *

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

⁣ – 4:24.51 min (2004) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

⁣ – 9:16.32 min (2004) *

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...

⁣ – 15:09.84 min (2007) *

⁣ – 31:17.62 min (2009) *

Marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ...

⁣ – 2:23:27 hrs (2008)

References

External links

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Team China 2008

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bai, Xue 1988 births Living people Chinese female marathon runners Chinese female long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for China Sportspeople from Qiqihar World Athletics Championships medalists Runners from Heilongjiang Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for China World Athletics Championships winners Asian Athletics Championships winners