Yuan Xinyue

Chinese female volleyball player Yuan Xinyue is a member of the China women’s national volleyball team as a talented middle blocker. She made her international debut playing at the 2012 Asian Girls’ Under 17 Volleyball Championship in Chengdu, China where she was also named as the best blocker. In 2013, she joined the Guangdong Evergrande Women’s Volleyball Club the same year she claimed her first gold medal at the Under 18 World Championship. Xinyue later resigned to join her current club the Bayi Nanchang Women’s Volleyball Team and joined the senior China women’s national volleyball team in 2014.

During this same time, she brought home silver at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship in Italy alongside their highly decorated captain Zhu Ting. They made a strong comeback winning gold at the following year’s FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics Xinyue helped make history at the Olympics winning the gold medal ahead of Serbia and the United States. Her more recent victories include gold at the 2018 Asian Games and gold again at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup.

Xinyue has been selected as best middle blocker on numerous occasions throughout her career for her pivotal sportsmanship on the court. She is set to rejoin the China women’s national volleyball team at the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.