Yang Wenyi

Yang Wenyi
Personal information
Born January 11, 1972
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

  • Bronze 4x100 m medley relay
  • 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
  • Silver 50 m freestyle
  • Gold 50 m freestyle
  • Gold 100 m backstroke
  • Gold 4x100 m freestyle relay
  • Gold 50 m freestyle
  • Gold 50 m freestyle (24.79 WR)

Honours

See also

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
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.