Chen Luyun

Chen Luyun
Information about the player
birthday	June 7th 1977
place of birth	Xiamen , Fujian Province , People's Republic of China
date of death	23rd December 2015
size	188 cm
position	center
Clubs as active
	Fujian Tailaoshan
National team as a coach
	Women's Chinese Basketball Association
1 As of January 3, 2016

Chen Luyun ( Chinese  陳鷺芸 , Pinyin Chén Luyun * 7. June 1977 in Xiamen , Fujian Province ; † 23. December 2015 ) was a Chinese basketball player , with the Chinese national team of the ladies at the basketball tournament of the 2004 Summer Olympics took part and there reached ninth place. After her official career as an active player, she also worked as a basketball coach.

Career

Chen Luyun was born in 1977 in the metropolis of Xiamen in the southeast Chinese province of Fujian and has played for the women's basketball team Fujian Tailaoshan in the course of her career . The young athlete played her first major tournament for a Chinese national team when she took part in the U-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in Brazil in 1997 , where she was used in six games and finished in seventh place with the team. With the Chinese national basketball team of the ladies she participated in the Ladies FIBA Asia Championship of the year 2001 in part. After clear successes in the preliminary round and the semifinals, she and the Chinese women clearly won the final at the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium in Bangkok with 105: 76 against Japan .

The following year, she took part with the national team at the women's basketball world championship in 2002 , which took place from September 14th to 25th, in her own country, and only achieved sixth place there. The 14th Asian Games began just four days later in Busan , South Korea . Chen Luyun took part in this as part of a 12-person Chinese women's basketball team and was able to prevail in the basketball tournament taking place from October 3rd to 14th against the equal opponent South Korea and the weaker rest of the field and subsequently became Asian champion.

Another highlight in her career was her participation in the basketball tournament of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens almost two years later . At the tournament, the 1.88 m tall athlete was used in four of five games of her team and only had to pause in the last game against the eventual Olympic champion, the United States . After this encounter, the Chinese women were eliminated from the competition with one win and four defeats as penultimate before South Korea. She showed her best performance in the opening game, the 71:54 victory over South Korea, when she contributed four points, five rebounds , an assist and three turnovers . Days before the start of the Summer Olympics, she took part in the FIBA Diamond Ball in Heraklion , finishing second behind Australia and ahead of Brazil and the associated silver medal.

After the successes in the following years were largely absent, she withdrew from active professional sport soon after and was appointed by the Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) as a trainer. With the girls she trained, she won the gold medal at the basketball tournament of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . At the first major event, 3 × 3 street basketball games were played, making this competition Olympic for the first time. In the following years she continued to appear as a basketball coach. After she was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2012 , Chen Luyun died on December 23, 2015 at the age of 38 in her homeland, China. Before her death, numerous fundraisers were organized to provide financial support for Chen Luyun's cancer treatment, including eleven chemotherapy treatments .

Web links

• Chen Luyun on the official FIBA ​​website
• Chen Luyun's player profile on asia-basket.com
• Chen Luyun's trainer profile on asia-basket.com (English)
• Chen Luyun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former China center Chen loses battle against cancer , accessed January 3, 2016
2. ↑ Former Basketball Center Chen Luyun Dies of Cancer at 38 , accessed January 3, 2016
3. ↑ Chen Luyun död - avled 38 år gammal (Swedish), accessed January 3, 2016

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, Luyun is the first name.