Li Yongbo is a retired Chinese

China

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 male badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 player and now the head coach of Chinese National Badminton Team

China national badminton team

The China national badminton team represents the People's Republic of China in international badminton team competitions and is controlled by the Badminton Association of the People's Republic of China, the governing body for badminton in China....

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Career

As a player he was a men's doubles specialist noted for his quickness, reflexes, and power. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s he shared numerous international titles with his regular partner Tian Bingyi

Tian Bingyi

Tian Bingyi is a former badminton star for China. Though he played some singles internationally early in his career, he soon specialized in men's doubles.-Career:...

. They were contemporaries and rivals of the famous Korean pair Park Joo-bong

Park Joo-bong

Park Joo-bong is a former badminton player from South Korea who excelled from the early 1980s through the mid 1990s....

 and Kim Moon-soo

Kim Moon-soo (badminton)

Kim Moon-Soo is a former badminton player from South Korea.He has won 2 titles in the World Badminton Championships in men's doubles. He also won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics and 3 All England Open Badminton Championships in men's doubles...

, largely dividing badminton's biggest doubles events between them for about eight seasons. Among many other tournaments around the world Li and Tian captured the (then biennial) World Championships

BWF World Championships

The BWF World Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation to crown the best badminton players in the world....

 in 1987 and 1989, the prestigious All-England Championships

All England Open Badminton Championships

The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious badminton tournaments. Played annually, it developed after the success of world's first badminton tournament held in Guildford in 1898...

 in 1987, 1988, and 1991, and the Danish Open

Denmark Open

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 in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, and 1991. They also played on Chinese Thomas Cup

Thomas Cup

The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation , the sport's global governing body...

 (men's international) teams that won consecutive world team titles in 1986, 1988, and 1990. Late in their partnership they won a bronze medal in men's doubles at the 1992 Olympic Games

1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

in Barcelona.

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