Yang Wenyi

Yang Wenyi

Personal information
Born	January 11, 1972
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for China Olympic Games Gold 1992 Barcelona 50 m freestyle Silver 1988 Seoul 50 m freestyle Silver 1992 Barcelona 4x100 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Silver 1989 Tokyo 50 m freestyle Summer Universiade Gold 1991 Sheffield 50 m freestyle

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.

Yang Wenyi (simplified Chinese: 杨文意; traditional Chinese: 楊文意; pinyin: Yáng Wényì; born January 11, 1972 in Shanghai) is a former freestyle and backstroke swimmer from China, whose best performance was winning the gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

She was the first woman in history to go under the 25-seconds barrier in the 50m freestyle.

After retirement, she owned "Jinyi Sports Promotion Ltd", holding sports contests and running "Yang Wenyi Swimming Club". The club is located in Minhang, Shanghai.

High performances

• 1987 – Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

• Bronze – 4x100 m medley relay

• 1988 – Asian Championships

• Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.98 WR)
• Gold – 100 m backstroke (1:03.08, Asian best)
• Gold – 4x100 m medley relay
• Gold – 4x100m freestyle relay

• 1988 – Seoul Olympic Games

• Silver – 50 m freestyle

• 1990 – Beijing Asian Games

• Gold – 50 m freestyle
• Gold – 100 m backstroke
• Gold – 4x100 m freestyle relay

• 1991 – World University Games

• Gold – 50 m freestyle

• 1992 – Barcelona Olympic Games

• Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.79 WR)

Honours

• 1989 – Selected one of National Top Ten Athletes
• 1989 – Voted one of forty Sports Stars in forty years since the founding of new China in 1949

See also

• World record progression 50m freestyle

External links

• Profile on Chinese NOC
• sports-reference

Records
Preceded by Tamara Costache	Women's 50 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 11 April 1988 – 11 September 1994	Succeeded by Le Jingyi