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Name
  
Yang Wenyi


Role
  
Freestyle swimmer

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Olympic medals
  
Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle

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Yang Wenyi (simplified Chinese: 杨文意; traditional Chinese: 楊文意; pinyin: Yáng Wényì; born January 11, 1972 in Shanghai) is a former freestyle and backstroke swimmer from China, whose best performance was winning the gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

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She was the first woman in history to go under the 25-seconds barrier in the 50m freestyle.

After retirement, she owned "Jinyi Sports Promotion Ltd", holding sports contests and running "Yang Wenyi Swimming Club". The club is located in Minhang, Shanghai.

High performances

  • 1987 – Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  • Bronze – 4x100 m medley relay
  • 1988 – Asian Swimming Championships
  • Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.98 WR)
  • Gold – 100 m backstroke (1:03.08, Asian best)
  • Gold – 4x100 m medley relay
  • Gold – 4x100m freestyle relay
  • 1988 – Seoul Olympic Games
  • Silver – 50 m freestyle
  • 1990 – Beijing Asian Games
  • Gold – 50 m freestyle
  • Gold – 100 m backstroke
  • Gold – 4x100 m freestyle relay
  • 1991 – World University Games
  • Gold – 50 m freestyle
  • 1992 – Barcelona Olympic Games
  • Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.79 WR)

    • Honours

  • 1989 – Selected one of National Top Ten Athletes
  • 1989 – Voted one of forty Sports Stars in forty years since the founding of new China in 1949

    • References

    Yang Wenyi Wikipedia
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