 Xue Changrui in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 31 May 1991 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  China | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Outdoor 5.82 (2017) NR Indoor 5.82 (2016) | ||||||||||||||
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Xue Changrui (Chinese: 薛长锐; born 31 May 1991) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. His personal best is 5.82 m.[1] He was the champion at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2013 and at the Asian Games in 2014.
Born in Shandong Province,[2] he originally started out in the long jump and set a best of 7.15 metres at the age of seventeen. He emerged as a pole vaulter in 2011 and after competing on the Chinese Athletics Grand Prix circuit he finished third at the Chinese Athletics Championships with a vault of 5.30 m. He gradually improved in 2012,[3] winning the national Tianjin meet with a clearance of 5.40 m before finishing as runner-up to Yang Yansheng (another Shandong vaulter) at the national championships with a personal best of 5.60 m.[4]
Xue began to establish himself as an elite level vaulter in 2013. Competing abroad for the first time, he achieved a best of 5.75 m in Nevers, France.[2] He was second at the nationals in May but won the Chinese Grand Prix Final with a vault of 5.65 m (an outdoor best).[3] At the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships the conditions for jumping were poor but he dominated the competition, winning the gold medal with 5.60 m, 40 centimetres ahead of runner-up Lu Yao.[5]
He finished fourth at the 2017 World Championships in London, jumping a Chinese record of 5.82 m.[6]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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| Representing China
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| 2013 | Asian Championships | Pune, India | 1st | 5.60 m | |
| World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 12th | 5.50 m | ||
| 2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 5th | 5.75 m | |
| Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 1st | 5.55 m | ||
| Continental Cup | Marrakech, Morocco | 2nd | 5.65 m1 | ||
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 6th | 5.65 m | |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 4th | 5.82 m | |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 11th | 5.60 m | |
1Representing Asia
