Pedro Yang

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Yang and the second or maternal family name is Ruiz.

Medal record
Men's Badminton
Competitor for Guatemala
Pan American Games
Silver	2003 Santo Domingo	Doubles
Bronze	1999 Winnipeg	Singles
Bronze	2003 Santo Domingo	Singles
Bronze	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Doubles

Pedro Alejandro Yang Ruiz (born October 9, 1976) is a male badminton player from Guatemala.

Biography

Yang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Jim Ronny Andersen of Norway.

He moved to Denmark 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 El Salvador and bronze medals at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada and the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Yang plays in the first division of the Danish League for the club Skovshoved IF. He is a current member of the IOC Athletes Commission.

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 Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.

Degrees

MA in Economic Growth, Innovation and Spatial Dynamics, Lund University, SWE. 2009

BA with Honours in Business Administration (Strategy & Management, De Montfort University, UK. 2008
Marketing Management Degree, Niels Brock College Copenhagen, DK. 2006

References

• cog.org
• sports-reference