Han Yu

Han Yu (, born October 6, 2000, in Beijing) is a Chinese 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.

Women's 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.

During the 2025–26 season, Team Wang would participate in their first Grand Slam of Curling event at the 2025 Masters. At the event, Wang would finish with a 1–3 record. The team would then go on to represent China at the 2025 Pan Continental Curling Championships, where they would have an impressive week, going undefeated in the tournament and beating Canada's Rachel Homan 7–6 in the final.

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.

Personal life Han attended Beijing Sport University.

Teams Women's Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events 2018–19 Han Yu (Fourth) Jiang Jiayi (Skip) Zhao Ruiyi Shang Yining Ding Yuexin Perry Marshall (4th) 2019–20 Han Yu Zhang Lijun Jiang Xindi Zhao Ruiyi Yu Jiaxin Marco Mariani, Sören Grahn Han Yu Zhang Lijun Jiang Xindi Yu Jiaxin Dong Ziqi Marco Mariani 2020–21 Han Yu Dong Ziqi Zhang Lijun Jiang Xindi Yan Hui Marco Mariani, Sören Grahn (10th) 2021–22 Han Yu Wang Rui Dong Ziqi Zhang Lijun Jiang Xindi Marco Mariani, Sören Grahn WOG 2022 (7th) 2023–24 Han Yu Wang Meini Tian Linyuan Yu Jiaxin Wang Rui (PCCC) 2024–25 Wang Rui Han Yu Dong Ziqi Jiang Jiayi Su Tingyu Zang Jialiang AWG 2025

Mixed Season Skip Third Second Lead Coach Events 2015–16 Du Hongrui Zhao Ruiyi Zhang Wenxin Han Yu Liu Yin WYOG 2016 (11th) 2017–18 Liu Sijia Ling Zhi Han Yu Wang Weihaoping Xu Lingli WMxCC 2017 (9th)

Mixed doubles Season Female Male Events 2015–16 Han Yu Ross Whyte WYOG 2016 2024–25 Han Yu Wang Zhiyu AWG 2025 (17th) 2025–26 Han Yu Yu Sen (12th)