Country China Role Player Handedness Right Height 1.68 m | Current ranking 1 (May 2, 2014) Weight 60 kg Name Yu Yang Highest ranking 1 | |
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Born April 7, 1986 (age 38)
Haicheng, Liaoning ( 1986-04-07 ) Olympic medals Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles Similar People Wang Xiaoli, Liliyana Natsir, Lee Yong‑dae, He Hanbin, Lee Hyo‑jung | ||
Top chinese badminton star yu yang is apparently quitting the sport after being disqualified
Yu Yang (Chinese: 于洋; pinyin: Yú Yáng; born April 7, 1986 in Haicheng, Liaoning) is a badminton player from the People's Republic of China. She won at the 2013 World Championships in women's doubles with her partner Wang Xiaoli. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Contents
- Top chinese badminton star yu yang is apparently quitting the sport after being disqualified
- Career
- Olympic Games
- BWF World Championships
- Asian Games
- Asia Championships
- World Junior Championships
- BWF Superseries
- BWF Grand Prix
- IBF International Tournament
- Record against selected opponents
- References
Career
A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing over Korea's Lee Kyung-won and Lee Hyo-jung. Their other titles have included the Polish Open (2004): the China Masters (2005); the Asian Championships and Swiss Open in 2006; the Russian, Hong Kong, and Indonesia Opens in 2007; and the French, Korea, and Singapore Opens in 2008. Yu and Du were bronze medalists at the World Championships in 2006, but were unable to play in the tourney's 2007 edition. They were runners-up at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2008, but avenged that loss by beating their All-England conquerors in the Olympic final.
Yu has also enjoyed recent success in mixed doubles with He Hanbin. They captured titles at the Badminton Asia Championships and the Thailand and Denmark Opens in 2007; and the India, Swiss, Malaysia, and French Opens in 2008. They finished in third place at the Beijing Olympics, making Yu one of only two players to win two medals at the competition.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Yu Yang and her partner, Wang Xiaoli, along with Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na, Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung of South Korea, and Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of Indonesia were disqualified from the competition for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" following matches the previous evening during which they were accused of throwing the match. Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli played against South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na, and it has been suggested both teams wanted to lose in order to secure an easier draw, although Yu claimed "she and her partner were just trying to conserve their strength for the knockout rounds". Shortly after, Yu Yang announced that she would retire from badminton.
Olympic Games
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
BWF World Championships
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Asian Games
Women's Doubles
Asia Championships
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
World Junior Championships
Girls' Doubles
Mixed Doubles
BWF Superseries
The BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Superseries Finals Tournament Superseries Premier Tournament Superseries TournamentBWF Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Grand Prix Gold Tournament Grand Prix TournamentIBF International Tournament
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Record against selected opponents
Women's doubles results with former partner Du Jing against Super Series finalists, World semi-finalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists: