Hu Chia-chen

Hu Chia-chen
nation	Taiwan
birthday	28th March 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Taiwan
size	160 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Trainer	Xu Tanghan
status	active
Medal table
U20 Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Junior Asian Championships bronze Taipei 2014 4 × 100 m
last change: July 9, 2019

Hu Chia-chen (born March 28, 1997 ) is a Taiwanese sprinter .

Athletic career

Hu Chia-chen gained her first international experience at the Asian Youth Games in Nanjing in 2013 , where she was eliminated in the first round with 12.40 seconds. The following year, she finished fourth at the Junior Asian Championships in Taipei in the 100-meter run and won the bronze medal in the Taiwanese 4-by-100-meter relay in 45.94 s. So she qualified for the Junior World Championships in Eugene , where she was eliminated with 12.02 s in the lead. At the beginning of October, she finished seventh with the relay at the Asian Games in Incheon . In 2017 she took part in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar and was eliminated there with 12.08 s in the semi-finals. At the Summer Universiade in Taipei, she was eliminated both in the individual competition over 100 meters and in the relay in the first round.

In 2018 she took part again in the Asian Games in Jakarta and came in sixth place with the relay. The following year she was eliminated from the Asian Championships in Doha with 11.94 s in the lead. In July she retired at the Summer Universiade in Naples with 12.21 seconds in advance.

In 2018, she became the Taiwanese champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.59 s (+1.6 m / s), April 28, 2019 in Chiayi
• 200 meters: 24.25 s (+1.8 m / s), May 1, 2019 in Chiayi

Web links

• Hu Chia-chen 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. Hu is the family name here, Chia-chen is the first name.