Huang Nanyan (, born April 11, 1977, in Guangxi) is a

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

player from the

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Career

A women's doubles specialist, Huang won a number of top tier titles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first of these came at the 1997

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(now Badminton Asia Championships) with Liu Zhong. The rest came in partnership with Yang Wei and included the

World Badminton Grand Prix The World Badminton Grand Prix Finals was an annual badminton tournament organized by the International Badminton Federation (IBF) to crown the best badminton player of the year. The tournament only invited the top eight players in the year-end worl ...

(2000), and the

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(1998),

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(1998),

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(1999, 2001),

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(1999, 2002), and

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(2000, 2001, 2002) Opens. Huang and Yang were silver medalists at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, losing the final to their formidable fellow countrywomen Ge Fei and

Gu Jun Gu Jun (; born 3 January 1975) is a Chinese former badminton player. Career Gu and her regular partner Ge Fei were the world's dominant women's doubles team from the mid-1990s to their retirement after the 2000 Olympics. They won over thirty t ...

. Huang and Yang competed together in the 2002 Uber Cup series (women's world team championships) and clinched the deciding point for their

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in the final "tie" against

. Huang apparently retired after this victory while Yang went on to further success in partnership with

Zhang Jiewen Zhang Jiewen (; born 4 January 1981) is a Chinese former badminton player. Career One of China's most successful women's doubles specialists, Zhang has won some thirty international titles, the vast majority of them in partnership with Yang ...

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