Yang Xiaojun

Yang Xiaojun
portrait
Date of birth	May 18, 1963
place of birth	Beijing , China
size	1.82 m
position	Middle block
societies
until 1988 1989-1992	Beijing Team CJD Feuerbach
National team
302 times	A national team
successes
1984 1985 1986 1988 1990 1990 1991	Olympic Champion Los Angeles World Cup Champion in Japan World Champion in Czechoslovakia Bronze Olympic Games Seoul DVV Cup Winner German Champion German Champion

Yang Xiaojun ( Chinese  楊 曉君 ; born May 18, 1963 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) is a former Chinese volleyball player and coach.

Yang Xiaojun played in the Chinese national team as a middle blocker and acceptance player. She won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . She was the 1985 World Cup winner in Japan . In 1986 she became world champion in Czechoslovakia and was voted the best acceptance player. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she won the bronze medal. Yang Xiaojun then played for the German Bundesliga club CJD Feuerbach , with whom she became German champions in 1990 and 1991 and won the DVV Cup in 1990 .

After a knee injury, Yang Xiaojun became a trainer in Germany. Her stations were CJD Feuerbach (1992), the Baden-Württemberg girls' national team (1993 to 1995), MTV Stuttgart and the men's team from SG Leinfelden-Echterdingen (1995 to 1998), TV Creglingen (1998 to 2001) and TSV Schmiden (2001 to 2002). From 2002 to 2008, Yang Xiaojun was an instructor for A-license trainer courses. From 2008 to 2011 she coached the Bundesliga club 1. VC Wiesbaden . In 2014/15 she was a coach at the men's third division club SG Rodheim .

Web links

• Yang Xiaojun in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Ranking lists 1990 (PDF file; 3.16 MB)
• Ranking lists 1991 (PDF file; 2.73 MB)
• Ranking lists 1992 (PDF file; 2.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leonhard Kazda: The Prussian Chinese. Frankfurter Allgemeine , November 29, 2009, accessed on May 16, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Andre Ebert: Applause for Xiaojun Yang for minutes. Wiesbadenaktuell.de, May 11, 2011, accessed on May 16, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Olympic champion Xiaojun Yang trains men 1. SG Rodheim, September 25, 2014, archived from the original on August 17, 2018 ; accessed on November 6, 2014 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Yang is the family name here, Xiaojun is the first name.