Yen Hoang

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Yen Hoang is an American wheelchair racer born on March 8, 1997, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She moved to the United States with her family when she was three and has used a wheelchair since age four because of cauda equina syndrome.

Hoang played wheelchair basketball in middle school and began track and field at Evergreen High School in Vancouver, Washington. She attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on a sports scholarship, earning a degree in business and accounting in 2019, and she now works for KPMG.

Her wheelchair racing is in the T53 class. She competed in the 2015 Parapan American Games and the 2015 IPC World Championships. At the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, she won gold in the 800 meters T53 and silver in the 400 meters T53, finishing fourth in the 100 meters T53.

In major races, Hoang finished second in the 2021 Chicago Marathon and third in the 2021 Boston Marathon. She was the second-fastest woman in the virtual 2020 New York City Marathon and finished third in the 2021 New York Mini 10K wheelchair race. At the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics (held in 2021), she finished eighth in the 800 meters T53 final, with a personal-best time in the semi-final, and also competed in the 100 meters T53, 400 meters T53, and 1500 meters T53.