Yang Ying () is a

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player, born 13 July 1977 in

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Province. She achieved gold medals at several World Table Tennis Championships in either doubles or team play. She played right-handed Chinese penhold style. Her main techniques were forehand and backhand speed drives. Since 2008 Yang has been working as a table tennis commentator for

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Career performance

*4th

Table Tennis World Cup The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had been only men's singles until the inauguration of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions, the World Team Cup, were canceled until the rela ...

(1995) Women's Team Gold. *44th World Table Tennis Championship (1997) Women's Team Gold. *44th World Table Tennis Championship (1997) Women's Double Gold. *13th Asian Games (1998) Table Tennis Women's Team Gold. *45th World Table Tennis Championship (1999) Women's Double Silver. *27th

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...

(2000) Table Tennis Women's Double Silver. * International Table Tennis Tournament (2001) Grand Finals Women's Double Gold. *46th World Table Tennis Championship (2001) Women's Team Gold. *46th World Table Tennis Championship (2001) Women's Double Silver. *46th World Table Tennis Championship (2001) Mixed Double Gold.

References

1977 births Living people Chinese female table tennis players Olympic medalists in table tennis Table tennis players from Jiangsu Sportspeople from Xuzhou Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic table tennis players of China Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub