In 1989 he added the venerable All-England Championships to his tally thus, by twenty-five, he captured all the titles by which 'greatness' in the sport is generally measured.Īs a member of China's golden badminton generation of the 1980s which included the almost equally brilliant singles stars Zhao Jianhua and Xiong Guobao, Yang Yang played an important role in making China the major world badminton superpower. In 1988 he also won the Olympic exhibition event in Seoul (badminton became an official Olympic sport at the next games in Barcelona).

In the late 80s he dominated international singles play, winning the World Championships over Morten Frost in 1987 and over young Ardy Wiranata in 1989. In 1986, he won the Japan Open and the Hong Kong Open for the second straight year, and also helped China to regain the Thomas Cup (men's world team championship) from Indonesia by winning key matches. In 1985, he won the Hong Kong Open by defeating Morten Frost. He won his first Chinese national championship title in 1984. He was recruited by the Chinese national team in 1983. Yang began training in 1975, when he was 12 years old. He possessed great agility, quick footwork, accurate power, and coolness under pressure, and is widely regarded as one of the finest singles players in the history of the sport. He also won the men's singles gold medal when badminton was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He is one of the four badminton players in the world to have won two World Badminton Championships men's singles titles consecutively ( 1987, 1989), the others being Lin Dan, Chen Long, Kento Momota and Viktor Axelsen. Yang Yang ( simplified Chinese: 杨阳 traditional Chinese: 楊陽 born Decemin Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a former Chinese badminton player.

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