Yang Wenyi is a former freestyle

Freestyle swimming

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 and backstroke

Backstroke

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 swimmer from China

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, whose best performance was winning the gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

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 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

Shanghai

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High performances

• 1987 – Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
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• Bronze – 4x100 m medley relay
• 1988 – Asian Championships
• 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
• 1988 – Seoul Olympic Games
  Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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• Silver – 50 m freestyle
• 1990 – Beijing Asian Games
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• Gold – 50 m freestyle
• Gold – 100 m backstroke
• Gold – 4x100 m freestyle relay
• 1991 – World University Games
• Gold – 50 m freestyle
• 1992 – Barcelona Olympic Games
  Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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• Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.79 WR)

Honours

• 1989 – Selected one of National Top Ten Athletes
• 1989 – Voted one of forty Sports Stars in forty years since the founding of new China in 1949

External links

• Profile on Chinese NOC
• sports-reference