{{short description|Chinese pole vaulter}} '''Cai Weiyan''' ({{lang-zh|蔡维艳}}; born 25 October 1973 in Anhui<ref>7th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - IAAF Statistics Handbook Seville 1999. 1999, p. 665.</ref>) is a retired athlete who specialised in the pole vault.<ref>{{World Athletics}}</ref> She won the bronze medal at the 1997 World Indoor Championships and the silver at the 1997 Summer Universiade.
Her personal bests are 4.33 metres outdoors (Shenzhen 1996) and 4.35 metres indoors (Paris 1997).
==Competition record== {| {{AchievementTable}} |- !colspan="5"|Representing {{CHN}} |- |rowspan=2|1997 |World Indoor Championships |Paris, France |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |4.35 m |- |Universiade |Catania, Italy |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4.35 m |- |1998 |Asian Games |Bangkok, Thailand |bgcolor=gold|1st |4.00 m |- |1999 |World Indoor Championships |Maebashi, Japan |16th |4.05 m |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Asian Games Champions Athletics Pole Vault Women}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cai, Weiyan}} Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Chinese women pole vaulters Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games Category:Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Category:Athletes from Anhui Category:Asian Games gold medalists for China Category:Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Category:FISU World University Games silver medalists for China Category:Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade Category:Chinese Athletics Championships winners Category:Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
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