Yang Wenyi

Yang Wenyi

Yang Wenyi, born in Shanghai in January 1972, is a former member of China National Swimming Team.

In 1978, 6-year-old Yang Wenyi entered the swimming class of Shanghai sports club to learn swimming. He was selected into the national swimming team in 1986. In 1988, she broke the world record of 50 meter freestyle with a time of 24.98 seconds in the third Asian Swimming Championships. In the same year, she won the silver medal of women's 50 meter freestyle in Seoul Olympic Games. In August 1992, she won the gold medal in the final of women's 50 meter freestyle in Barcelona Olympic Games.

Early experience

In 1978, 6-year-old Yang Wenyi entered the swimming class of Shanghai Sports Club and began to learn swimming. During his study in Shanghai, Yang Wenyi broke the national record of juvenile age group 18 times. The main sports were women's 100 meter backstroke, women's 200 meter backstroke and women's 200 meter medley. In 1984, Yang Wenyi was selected into the Shanghai swimming team.

Sports career

In 1986, Yang Wenyi was officially selected into the national swimming training team. In 1987, Yang Wenyi won the third place in the women's 4 × 100m medley relay in the second Pan Pacific Swimming Championship, and set two Asian records in the women's 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke in the Sixth National Games in the same year. In April 1988, at the third Asian Swimming Championships held in Guangzhou, Yang Wenyi broke the world record of women's 50 meter freestyle with a time of 24.98 seconds and won the championship. He broke the world record of 25.28 seconds held by Costa of Romania and became the first player in the world to break the 25 second mark. He was also the first Chinese swimmer to break the world record after 30 years after mu Xiangxiong At the third Asian Swimming Championships, Yang Wenyi also won the women's 100 meter backstroke champion with the best result in Asia of 1:3.08, and won the women's 4 × 100 meter medley relay and the women's 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay in cooperation with his teammates. In August of the same year, she won the silver medal in the women's 50m freestyle final of the 24th Seoul Olympic Games. During 1989-1991, due to the discord with coach Zhou Ming, Yang Wenyi's state fluctuated, gradually abandoned his training, and his competition performance fell into a low ebb. In August 1992, in the swimming competition of Barcelona Olympic Games, Yang Wenyi came back and won the gold medal of women's 50m Freestyle in 24.79 seconds, breaking the Olympic record. In 1993, Yang Wenyi announced his retirement.

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Personal life

Yang Wenyi's father loves sports and is a sports collector. His mother once played professional softball. His brother was a member of the National Youth Fencing Team. after his retirement, Yang Wenyi lives in the United States. Her husband is a Chinese American. In 1994, after retiring, Yang Wenyi opened two swimming clubs in Shanghai, invited his master Chen Yunpeng to be the company's consultant, and later served as the program host and reporter of China sports report.

Character evaluation

In her sports career, Yang Wenyi's amazing performance has attracted much attention from overseas. Coupled with her beautiful appearance, the associated press simply calls her "Chinese Mermaid". (Tencent online review) Yang Wenyi is known as "the most perfect swimming figure". Her slender and curvy figure shocked the world at the 1988 Asian Swimming Championships. She may not be the most famous of the "five golden flowers" in Chinese swimming, but she is the tallest and most beautiful. (tencent.com, sina.com) Baidu Encyclopedia content is shared by netizens. If you find that your data content is inaccurate or incomplete, you are welcome to use your own data service (free) to participate in the correction. Go to > > now

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