Yun Yan-Qiao

About

Yun Yan-Qiao is a Chinese trail runner born in 1987 in Qingdao, the coastal city in Shandong Province, who gave up a career as a power engineer to run full-time — an unusual commitment in a country where professional trail running was still establishing itself — and became one of China's first trail runners to make a sustained mark on the international circuit. Sponsored by The North Face and training at 150 kilometres per week, he won the Hong Kong 100 twice: in 2013 and 2017, back-to-back victories at Asia's most competitive major trail race separated by four years of continued international racing. He won the Val d'Aran by UTMB — the prominent Pyrenean UTMB-affiliated mountain race — and won what was reported as the first mass marathon gold medal in the 58-year history of China's National Games. Based in Beijing, Yun has raced across Asia and Europe and is widely recognised as a pioneer of the generation of Chinese elite trail runners who followed, at a time when the country's international trail running programme was transitioning from scattered individual efforts to a more systematic competitive presence.

Notable Wins

• — Hong Kong 100 2013
• — Hong Kong 100 2017
• — Val d'Aran by UTMB
• — China National Games marathon gold (first in 58-year history)

Race History