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Jiang Bo (runner)

female Chinese middle distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ462185 ↗
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Jiang Bo (Chinese: 姜波; born March 13, 1977, in Wafangdian, Liaoning Province) is a female Chinese middle-distance runner. On October 18, 1997, in Shanghai she ran the 1500 metres in 3:50.98 minutes. This ranks her fourth in the world of all time, behind world record holder Faith Kipyegon, Genzebe Dibaba, and compatriot Qu Yunxia.

Jiang was born on March 13, 1977, in Wafangdian. In 1990, she attended Dalian Sports School (Chinese: 大连体校), where she was coached by Zhang Fuxin (Chinese: 张福新). Ma Junren began coaching her in 1994.

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“Jiang Bo (runner)” enters the record as female Chinese middle distance runner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jiang, runner and female can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1997, 1500, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jiang, runner and female.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jiang Bo (runner)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.