Bai Xue (Chinese: 白雪; name means White Snow; born 15 December 1988 in Heilongjiang) is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.
Bai won both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Asian Championships, and finished fourth in 10,000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships. She finished twenty-first in the 10,000 metres at the Olympic Games. She won the Beijing Marathon in 2008.
The Berlin 2009 Marathon event ...
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Bai Xue (Chinese: 白雪; name means White Snow; born 15 December 1988 in Heilongjiang) is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.
Bai won both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Asian Championships, and finished fourth in 10,000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships. She finished twenty-first in the 10,000 metres at the Olympic Games. She won the Beijing Marathon in 2008.
The Berlin 2009 Marathon event was Bai's first time to take part in World Championships and only second time to take part in an international marathon. She won the 2009 World Championships Women's Marathon gold medal becoming the youngest ever women's world marathon champion at the age of 20. Bai pulled away from Japan's Yoshimi Ozaki in the last kilometer to finish the 42.195 km race in two hours 25 minutes and 15 seconds. Ozaki took silver in 2:25:25 and Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia finished third in 2:25:32. Bai's teammate Zhou Chunxiu, silver winner in Osaka 2007 and...
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