| Ziyi Yan | |
| Nationality: | Chinese |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Javelin |
| Birth Date: | 22 May 2008 |
| Pb: | Javelin: 64.28m (Hangzhou, 2024) WU20R |
Ziyi Yan (born 22 May 2008) is a Chinese track and field athlete. In 2024, she set a world under-20 record for the javelin throw.[1]
Ziyi began surpassing 60m regularly 2024, winning her country's women's javelin title in March 2024 in Tianjin with a throw of 61.31 meters.[2] She threw past 60m in four of her five competitions in 2024 and set a personal best mark of 62.23m in Chengdu in April 2024.[3] Later that month, she set a under-20 world record for the javelin with a throw of 64.28m to win at the China Athletics GP, breaking Yulenmis Aguilar mark of 63.86m from 2015 and missing the Chinese national record by only 6cm.[4] The throw also beat the unratified mark of 63.96m achieved by Greek Elina Tzengko in 2020.[5]