Sun Yiwen

Sun Yiwen
Sun Yiwen in 2013
Personal information
Born	(1992-06-17) 17 June 1992 (age 29) Qixia, Shandong, China
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Épée
Hand	left-handed
Club	Shandong
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Individual 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual World Championships 2019 Budapest Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Team Military World Games 2019 Wuhan Individual

Sun Yiwen (simplified Chinese: 孙一文; traditional Chinese: 孫一文; pinyin: Sūn Yīwén, born 17 June 1992) is a Chinese left-handed épée fencer.^[1] Sun is a three-time team Asian champion and two-time team world champion.

A two-time Olympian, Sun is a 2016 team Olympic silver medalist, 2016 individual Olympic bronze medalist, and 2021 individual Olympic champion.

In Tokyo, Sun became the first Chinese fencer in history to win an Olympic gold medal in individual women's épée, and only the second Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual fencing event, after Luan Jujie, who won a gold medal in individual women's foil at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

During the press conference after her gold medal match, Sun revealed that some time before her departure for Tokyo, she was informed that her father had been diagnosed with cancer and was fighting for his life at a hospital in Beijing.^[2]

Medal record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[3]
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Women's Épée	2nd[4]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Women's Épée	1st[5]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Épée	2nd[6]
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Women's Épée	1st[7]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Women's Épée	2nd[8]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Épée	3rd[9]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Épée	1st[10]

Asian Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Suwon, South Korea	Team Women's Épée	1st[11]
2015	Singapore	Team Women's Épée	2nd[12]
2016	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Épée	2nd[13]
2017	Hong Kong	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[14]
2017	Hong Kong	Team Women's Épée	1st[15]
2018	Bangkok, Thailand	Team Women's Épée	1st[16]
2019	Tokyo, Japan	Team Women's Épée	2nd[17]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
23 May 2015	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[18]
5 March 2019	Cali, Colombia	Individual Women's Épée	1st[19]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
23 October 2015	Legnano, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	1st[20]
20 January 2017	Barcelona, Spain	Individual Women's Épée	1st[21]
11 October 2017	Suzhou, China	Individual Women's Épée	1st[22]
19 January 2018	Havana, Cuba	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[23]
5 April 2018	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Individual Women's Épée	1st[24]
11 September 2018	Tallinn, Estonia	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[25]
11 January 2019	Tallinn, Estonia	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[26]

References[]

External links[]

• Sun Yiwen at FIE
• Sun Yiwen at Olympics.com
• Sun Yiwen at Olympedia