Yang Ying

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the table tennis player born in 1977 see Yang Ying (table tennis player, 1977) .

Yang Ying ( Chinese  楊瑩  /  杨莹 , Pinyin Yáng Yíng ; * around 1954 in Sichuan ) is a Chinese table tennis player . She is world champion in doubles.

Career

Yang Ying completed a four-year sports degree in Beijing. She took part in the World Championships in 1977 and 1979 . In 1977 she won the doubles title with Pak Yong-ok from North Korea. At the Asian Championships in 1978 she reached the final in singles.

In 1980 she came to the German Bundesliga club DSC Kaiserberg through the mediation of the Chinese sports committee . She was the first Chinese table tennis player who competed for a German club in the top division. With Kaiserberg, she immediately became German champions and German cup winners in the 1980/81 season. She won 65 singles and lost only two. With Kaiserberg, she also won the European ETTU Cup in 1981 , after which she returned to China.

She later switched to ATSV Saarbrücken , where she worked as a trainer until 1990. Then she became head trainer of the Saarland table tennis association.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1978	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	silver	Semifinals	Semifinals	1
CHN	Asian Games	1978	Bangkok	THA		Semifinals		1
CHN	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	last 16	Agony
CHN	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	no participants	gold	last 32

swell

• Olaf Brockmann: When Yang Ying plays it through, she does what she wants with us, DTS magazine , 1981/7, pages 9-10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to DTS in March 1981, Yang Ying was 27 years old - DTS magazine , 1981/7 page 9
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 page 20
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/8 page 12
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/15 page 29
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/8, page 12
6. ↑ Yang Ying results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)