Chen Zhenhe
Personal information
Date of birth (1906-03-15)15 March 1906
Place of birth Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Date of death 28 January 1941(1941-01-28) (aged 34)
Place of death Lanzhou, China
International career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
China

Chen Zhenhe (15 March 1906 – 28 January 1941) was a Chinese footballer.[1] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[2]

Early life

Born in Batavia, Java in the then Netherlands East Indies, he was brought to China by his father to be brought up in their ancestral city of Xiamen. He entered the Shanghai Jinan National University in 1926, intending to study business administration.[1]

Football career

He played in his university football team, winning eight championships in nine years. He next played for the Shanghai club You-You. Prior to his selection for the Olympic team he had played in the winning China national football team in the Far Eastern Games in 1930 and 1934 and was playing in the Shanghai You-You F.C.[1]

Military career and death

In 1932 he entered the Chinese Central Aviation School and became commissioned in the Chinese Air Force. He served from 1937 in the Second Sino-Japanese War that became part of World War II. A Squadron Leader, he was killed in action when on the first flight of a new aircraft he crashed near Lanzhou.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Chen Zhenhe". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Chen Zhenhe Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
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