Country China World Team Championships 4 Sport Speed skating Name Yang Yang | Olympic Games 0 Role Speed Skater World Championships 6 Retired 2002 | |
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Born September 14, 1977 (age 46) ( 1977-09-14 ) Changchun, Jilin, China Olympic medals Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000m Similar People Wang Chunlu, Chun Lee‑kyung, Annie Perreault, Tania Vicent, Isabelle Charest | ||
Yang Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨阳; traditional Chinese: 楊陽; pinyin: Yáng Yáng; born 14 September 1977 in Changchun, Jilin, China) is a Chinese Olympic speed skater.
Yang Yang competed as a short track speed skater for the Chinese national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. By coincidence, she had a one-year and one month older contemporary on the Chinese short track team also named Yang Yang in English and pinyin, although with a different given name in Chinese characters. They were originally referred to as Yang Yang (L) (“大杨扬”) and Yang Yang (S) (“小杨阳”), for "Large" and "Small"; Yang Yang (L) disliked the "L" designation and changed her designation to Yang Yang (A). "A" and "S" also refer to their respective months of birth: August and September respectively.