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Yao Fen

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Yao Fen
Medal record
Women's Badminton
Olympics
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona Doubles
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1990 Bandung-Jakarta Women's doubles
Gold medal – first place 1992 Guangzhou Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Macau Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1993 New Delhi Women's doubles
Asian Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Jakarta Women's doubles

Yao Fen (Chinese: 姚 芬; born January 2, 1967) is a Chinese former international level women's badminton player.

Career

A doubles specialist, Yao won a number of top tier events on the world circuit in the early 1990s. Her earliest international success came in partnership with Lai Caiqin with whom she captured women's doubles' titles at the Japan and Thailand Opens and the Badminton World Cup in 1990. In her most successful season, 1992, she paired with Lin Yanfen to win the China and Swedish Opens, the Badminton World Cup, the World Badminton Grand Prix, and the prestigious All-England Championships. Yao and Lin were bronze medalists at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and played doubles for China's world champion 1992 Uber Cup (women's international) team. In 1993 they won the French Open women's doubles and were runners-up in defense of their title at the All England Championships.

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