Yang Ying (table tennis, born 1953)
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Born | Dazu District, Sichuan (now Chongqing), China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 杨莹 | ||||||
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Yang Ying (born 1953) is a retired Chinese international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
She won the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships in women's doubles, partnering with North Korean player Pak Yong-ok.[1] [2] In the 1978 Asian Table Tennis Championships, she won a silver in women's singles and a gold in team competition. In the 1978 Asian Games, she won a bronze in women's doubles (partnering with Cao Yanhua) and a gold in team competition.
Later she played in Germany's Bundesliga for DSC Kaiserberg, helping the club win the 1980-1981 season as well as the 1981 ETTU Cup.
Retirement
After retirement she coached the German club ATSV Saarbrücken, and is currently the head coach of the Saarland Table Tennis Association.
See also
References
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
Categories:
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Chinese female table tennis players
- Sportspeople from Chongqing
- Asian Games medalists in table tennis
- Chinese expatriates in Germany
- Asian Games gold medalists for China
- Asian Games bronze medalists for China
- Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games
- Table tennis players from Chongqing
- Table tennis players at the 1978 Asian Games
- Chinese table tennis biography stubs