Chen Ruolin

Chen Ruolin is a Chinese platform diver and coach, born on 12 December 1992 in Nantong, Jiangsu. She won the women's 10 metre platform and the 10 metre synchronized platform at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, repeated that double at London in 2012, and won her fifth Olympic gold in the synchronised platform with Liu Huixia at Rio in 2016. At the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai she won both platform events, partnering Wang Hao in the synchro, and became the first Chinese woman to win every platform title at the Olympics, World Cup and World Championships. Her record also includes ten World championship medals, six of them gold, and nine World Cup medals. She lit the torch at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing and retired in October 2016 with a neck injury. She became a diving coach in 2021 and trained Quan Hongchan, who won gold at the 2024 Olympics.