Chen Kuei-ru

Chen Kuei-ru
nation	Taiwan
birthday	22nd September 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Sihu , Taiwan
size	189 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	110 meter hurdles
Best performance	13.34 s
Trainer	Wang Guo-hui
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games silver Jakarta 2018 110 m hurdles Asian Championships bronze Doha 2019 110 m hurdles  Universiade silver Taipei 2017 110 m hurdles
last change: November 7, 2019

Chen Kuei-ru (born September 22, 1993 in Sihu ) is a Taiwanese hurdler who specializes in the 110-meter distance .

Athletic career

Chen Kuei-ru gained his first international experience at the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , where he was eliminated with 13.91 seconds. 2016 he was in the hall Asian Championships in Doha in 7.81 s fourth in the 60-meter hurdles . The following year he finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in 13.82 s and won the silver medal behind the Hungarian Balázs Baji at the Summer Universiade in Taipei in 13.55 s . In 2018 he again took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta , where he also won the silver medal behind the Chinese Xie Wenjun in 13.39 seconds . The following year he won the bronze medal behind Xie and the Kuwaiti Yaqoub Mohamed al-Youha at the Asian Championships in Doha with equalizing his national record . So he qualified for the first time for the World Championships , which also took place in Doha and got there to the semifinals , in which he was eliminated with 13.52 s.

In 2018, Chen became the Taiwanese champion in the 110-meter hurdles. He graduated from National Taiwan Sport University .

Personal best

• 100 m hurdles: 13.34 s (+0.1 m / s), May 25, 2019 in Taipei ( Taiwanese record )
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.81 s, February 21, 2016 in Doha ( Taiwanese record )

Web links

• Chen Kuei-ru in the database of World Athletics (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Kuei-ru is the first name.