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Tian Yajuan

Chinese para athlete (born 1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ136390823 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tian Yajuan (Chinese: 田雅娟; born 17 November 1998) is a Chinese T54 wheelchair racer. She represented China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Career

Tian competed at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships and won a gold medal in the 5000 metres T54 event with a championship record time of 11:41.76. She also won a silver medal in the 1500 metres T54 event, and bronze medals in the 400 metres T54 and 800 metres T54 events. She then represented China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Her best finish was sixth place in the 1500 metres T54 and 5000 metres T54 events. She again competed at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships and won a silver medal in the 5000 metres T54 event, finishing 1.92 seconds behind gold medalist Catherine Debrunner.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tian Yajuan” as chinese para athlete (born 1998). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2024, 1500, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-11-17. The account is most persuasive where Tian, Yajuan and Chinese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as chinese para athlete (born 1998). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136390823. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2024, 1500 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tian Yajuan” 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.