Who is Huang Ya Qiong & Liu Yuchen? Know all about Chinese couple who got engaged at Paris 2024

New Delhi: China’s Huang Ya Qiong and Zheng Siwei defeated South Korea’s Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun 21-8, 21-11 in the mixed doubles and secured the sport’s first gold medal of the Paris Olympics.

The duo received their medals at La Chapelle, and they came off the podium for the victory lap. Waiting at the far corner was Huang’s boyfriend Liu Yuchan, also her fellow badminton player. He presented Huang with a bunch of flowers before getting down on one knee and proposing to her with a diamond ring.

After the proposal, Huang said the proposal had been very surprising “I had been preparing for the match. Today I became an Olympic champion and I got engaged. I think the ring fits my finger really well.”

Huang and Zheng took an early lead and won the first game in less than 20 minutes. The South Korean duo made a good start to the second game but the Chinese duo made a brilliant comeback to win the match.

“I’ll love you forever! Will you marry me?”
“Yes! I do!”

OMG!!! Romance at the Olympics!!!❤️❤️❤️

Huang Yaqiong just had her “dream come true”, winning a badminton mixed doubles gold medal🥇with her teammate Zheng Siwei

Then her boyfriend Liu Yuchen proposed! 🎉🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/JxMIipF7ij

— Li Zexin (@XH_Lee23) August 2, 2024

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Liu Yuchen

Beijing-based Liu Yuchen started his sports journey at the age of seven when his family introduced him to various sports. But influenced by his father’s career he chose badminton over swimming.

He comes from a family of athletes as his father was the coach of the Beijing municipal women’s badminton team and his mother has coached the Beijing municipal women’s swimming team. His older sister also represented China in swimming at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

She also won a gold medal in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2009 World Championships in Rome. Liu Yuchen represented China at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and bagged a silver medal in the men’s double event. He was also the men’s doubles World Champion in 2018.

Huang Ya Qiong

Huang Ya Qiong also started her sports journey at the age of eight. She pursued higher education at the China University of Geoscience in Wuhan. Huang balanced her academics and sports to become a formidable player on the badminton court.

In 2019, she was honoured as an Elite Athlete of the International class by the General Administration of Sport of China. Huang was named the Female Player of the Year by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) in 2018 and 2019.

She and her mixed doubles Siwei also won the pair of the year award at the BWF Player of the Year Awards. Huang is a three-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time Asian Champion. She also won the silver medal in the mixed doubles event at the Tokyo Olympics.

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