Chen Yueling (; born December 24, 1969 (also reported as April 1, 1968) in

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) is now an

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, who became the first ever female Olympic Race walking champion in 1992 while competing for

. She was virtually tied with former Soviet, Unified Team member

Alina Ivanova Alina Petrovna Ivanova (; born 16 March 1969 in Kildishevo, Yadrinsky District, Chuvash ASSR) is a retired Russian long-distance athlete who competing in race walking and road running. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's ...

with 200 meters to go. Ivanova then accelerated past Chen to the finish, while Chen held form. After a short celebration, Ivanova earned a disqualification, while Chen was awarded her gold medal. She had done mountain climbing and long-distance running before she started training at the Tieling Sports School in 1985. Spotted by Chinese walking coach Wang Kui, she joined the Liaoning provincial walking team. In 1989 she won the Asian Championships in

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. She also won the

1990 Asian Games ) , nations = 31 , athletes = 6,122 , events = 308 in 27 sports , opening = 22 September 1990 , closing = 7 October 1990 , opened_by = Yang Shangkun , closed_by = Roy de Silva , athlete_oath = Chen L ...

and took silver at the 1991

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. She left China for the United States in 1994. She competed for her new country at the

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, finishing 38th. She has been active in charitable activities in the United States and has done professional modeling. As of 2001, she was employed as Director of Asian Marketing for the health and nutritional company, Imagenetix, Inc,.
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1969 births Living people American female race walkers Chinese female race walkers Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Olympic athletes for China Olympic gold medalists for China Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games Sportspeople from Tieling Athletes from Liaoning Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games FISU World University Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade Asian Athletics Championships winners 20th-century American sportswomen Chinese Athletics Championships winners Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) {{US-racewalk-athletics-bio-stub