Olympic champ Quan Hongchan youngest name on Forbes China’s 30 under 30
- All 30 names on the sports section are Olympic gold medal winners including swimming star Zhang Yufei and diving team
- Athletes dominated by women, who fill 21 spots, with several teenage champions, including 14-year-old, on the list
China’s youngest Olympic champion at the Toyko 2020 Games, Quan Hongchan, has earned herself another plaudit as she was named to the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list for 2021, which was published on Thursday.
The 14-year-old is the youngest person on the overall list of 300, which includes 30 names for 10 separate industries, with Quan and her fellow Chinese Olympic gold medal winners named to the sport list.
Teammate Chen Yuxi, 16, is the next youngest athlete with 17-year-old Zhang Jiaqi also on there. All three divers won gold in Tokyo with Quan winning in the 10m platform and the older pair taking gold in the 10m synchronised.
The trio help to drag the average age of the list to 27.7 years old – 0.2 years younger than last year, Forbes noted. Some 24 of the athletes are aged 27 and under.
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While the publication also noted that around a third of the 300 names were women, of the 30 in the sport section there were just nine male athletes compared to 21 females.
The teenage diving trio are listed along with men’s 10m platform winner Cao Yuan and Xie Siyi who won gold in the 3m springboard and 3m synchro.