Pedro Alejandro Yang Ruiz (born October 9, 1976) is a retired male

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 pe ...

player from

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Biography

Yang played

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in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to

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. He moved to

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at the age of 24 and started training at the International Badminton Academy (IBA). Yang has won a gold medal at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in

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and bronze medals at the

1999 Pan American Games The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and ...

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, Manitoba, Canada and the

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ...

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. Pedro Yang was appointed to the

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

Athletes Commission from 2008–2016, Radio & TV Commission 2008–2013, and Athletes Entourage Commission from 2014. Pedro Yang was appointed to the World Baseball Softball Confederation's Ethics Commission from 2016–present and served in the

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Athletes Commission from 2001 to 2016. Pedro Yang is today a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by

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, a

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-based international organization.

Degrees

*BA with Honours in Business Administration (Strategy & Management, De Montfort University, UK/ Niels Brock College DK. *Marketing Management Degree, Niels Brock College Copenhagen, DK.

References

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Living people 1976 births Sportspeople from Guatemala City Alumni of De Montfort University Guatemalan male badminton players Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Guatemala Badminton players at the 1995 Pan American Games Badminton players at the 1999 Pan American Games Badminton players at the 2003 Pan American Games Badminton players at the 2007 Pan American Games Badminton players at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Guatemala Pan American Games bronze medalists for Guatemala Pan American Games medalists in badminton Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Guatemala Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Guatemala Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Guatemala Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games {{Guatemala-badminton-bio-stub