Han Yu (curler)

Han Yu (Chinese: 韩雨, born October 6, 2000, in Beijing) is a Chinese female curler. She currently plays third on Team Wang Rui.

Career

Juniors

Han represented China at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships throwing fourth stones for Jiang Jiayi. The team went 8-1 through the round robin, which earned them the number one seed in the playoffs. In the playoffs, they lost the semi-final to Russia's Vlada Rumiantseva and the bronze medal game to Switzerland, settling for fourth place.

Womens

Han, even though she was still of junior age, skipped the Chinese national team to a gold medal at the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships following a 10–3 victory over Japan's Seina Nakajima. The victory earned a spot for China at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship, which was cancelled due to COVID-19. A year later, Han skipped China at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship, finishing tenth with a 6–7 record. Han would skip the Chinese team on home soil at the 2022 Winter Olympics, where the team would finish 4–5 in the round-robin, finishing 7th.

Han would then return to international curling as third on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Rui at 2024 Pan Continental Curling Championships, where the team would win a bronze medal, qualifying them to return for the 2025 World Women's Curling Championship. In preparation for the World Championships, they would also represent China at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, where they won a silver medal, losing to South Korea's Gim Eun-ji 7–2 in the final. At the 2025 Worlds, the team finished the round robin with a 7–5 record, and would go on to win a bronze medal, this time beating Gim 9–4 in the bronze medal game. This bronze medal performance also qualified the Chinese women's team for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Mixed doubles

Han teamed up with Wang Zhiyu to compete in mixed doubles during the 2024–25 curling season. The pair would find immediate success, representing China as the home team at the 2025 Asian Winter Games where they finished 3rd, beating the Philippines 6–5 in the bronze medal game. Han and Wang would also represent China at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.