XU Jiayu

People's Republic of China

Date of Birth: 19 Aug 1995

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: WENZHOU

Birth Country:

People's Republic of China

Place of residence : PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 100m Backstroke	5
	Men's 200m Backstroke
	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay CHN China	DSQ
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay CHN China	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	2nd (52.31)	4th (1:55.16)	8th (DSQ)
2012	London, GBR	-	H (2:00.26)	-

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x200Free	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	6th (24.64)	1st (52.43)	H (1:57.15)	6th (7:04.74)	7th (3:31.61)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	5th (24.74)	1st (52.44)	5th (1:55.26)	-	6th (3:31.65)	3rd (3:41.25)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (25.71)	4th (52.89)	6th (1:55.20)	-	H (3:35.21)	4th (3:44.65)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	SF (53.84)	7th (1:57.13)	-	H (3:35.95)	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2018	Indonesia	1st (24.75)	1st (52.34)	1st (1:53.99)	1st (3:29.99)	1st (3:40.45)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2016	Tokyo, JPN	1st (24.65)	1st (53.02)	1st (1:55.19)	1st (3:33.43)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Back	100Back	200Back
2020	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd	2 x 1st	-
2019	-	1 x 1st, 1 x 4th	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	Men's 50m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	24.63
1	2020	100m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	52.97
1	2020	100m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	53.01
1	2019	100m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	52.98
1	2019	200m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	1:55.24
3	2020	Men's 50m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	25.05
3	2019	200m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	1:59.74
4	2019	100m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	54.65

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x50Medley M	4x50Medley X	4x200Free	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	SF (22.91)	2nd (49.26)	6th (1:49.91)	-	-	3rd (6:47.53)	-
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	8th (23.54)	3rd (50.02)	6th (1:51.37)	6th (1:33.98)	4th (1:38.93)	-	7th (3:26.87)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Jia Yu [Softshell Turtle] (sohu.com, 30 Sep 2020; zjnews.zjol.com.cn, 26 Jul 2017)

Watching television, playing video games. (sports.163.com, 08 Aug 2017; sports.qq.com, 29 Jul 2017)

Occupation:

Sport Studies - Zhejiang College of Sports, Hangzhou, CHN

Languages spoken:

Zhejiang Province [People's Republic of China]

Sporting relatives:

His mother Yu Zhenzhen competed in swimming for Wenzhou in People's Republic of China. (zj.people.com.cn, 23 Oct 2017)

National team:

2012 (m.sohu.com, 27 Jul 2019)

He began training for the sport at age seven in Wenzhou, People's Republic of China. (zj.people.com.cn, 23 Oct 2017)

His mother was a swimmer, and she would often take him to the pool when he was a child. (zj.people.com.cn, 23 Oct 2017)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Weibo profile, 23 Apr 2021; sports.sina.com.cn, 03 Oct 2020; sports.xinhuanet.com, 25 Sep 2020)

Japanese swimmer Ryosuke Irie. (sports.qq.com, 18 Nov 2017)

Coach Xu Guoyi. (zjnews.zjol.com.cn, 24 Aug 2017)

In 2018 he was presented with the Best Breakthrough Athlete of China award at the FINA World Aquatics Gala. He was also named one of China's Top 10 Athletes of the Year in 2018 by the Xinhua News Agency. (sports.xinhuanet.com, 26 Dec 2018; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 16 Dec 2018)

In 2013 he was named an Elite Athlete of International Class by the General Administration of Sport of China. (sport.gov.cn, 16 Apr 2013)

General Interest

General
COACH MOTIVATION
He credits his former coach Xu Guoyi, who passed away from brain cancer in July 2020, for helping him overcome discipline and motivation issues early on in his swimming career. "At that time, I was not very disciplined. Instead of going to sleep at night, I often played video games excessively. Coach Xu Guoyi actually smashed and broke my computer once. [He was] like my parent. He did whatever he could to help us to achieve our dreams and never gave up on me." (swimswam.com, 20 Jul 2020; sports.163.com, 05 Jul 2016)

Milestones

He became the first male Chinese swimmer to win an Olympic medal in a backstroke event after winning silver in the 100m backstroke at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 May 2020)

Social Media

http://weibo.com/u/2243244911

Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
DSQ:: Disqualified

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