Yang Yang (speed skater, born 1977)
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Born | Changchun, Jilin, China | September 14, 1977|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Template:Chinese name Yang Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨阳; traditional Chinese: 楊陽; pinyin: Yáng Yáng; born 14 September 1977 in Changchun, Jilin, China) is a Chinese Olympic speed skater.
Yang Yang competed as a short track speed skater for the Chinese national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics.[1] By coincidence, she had a one-year and one month older contemporary on the Chinese short track team also named Yang Yang in English and pinyin, although with a different given name in Chinese characters.[2] They were originally referred to as Yang Yang (L) (“大杨扬”) and Yang Yang (S) (“小杨阳”), for "Large" and "Small"; Yang Yang (L) disliked the "L" designation and changed her designation to Yang Yang (A).[3] "A" and "S" also refer to their respective months of birth: August and September respectively.[4]
References
- ^ "Yang (S) Yang". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "Yang (A) Yang". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "Five-Ring Circus: Yang Yang and Yang Yang". The Toledo Blade. 13 February 2002. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ Lopresti, Mike (10 February 2006). "Athletes usher in the Torino Games". USA Today. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- Use dmy dates from September 2010
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Chinese speed skaters
- Olympic short track speed skaters of China
- Olympic silver medalists for China
- Olympic bronze medalists for China
- People from Changchun
- Short track speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
- Sportspeople from Jilin
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Chinese short track speed skaters
- Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating
- Short track speed skaters at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
- Short track speed skaters at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
- Chinese speed skating biography stubs
- Chinese Olympic medalist stubs
- Winter Olympic medalist stubs