Yang Young-yes

Korean spelling
Hangeul	양영자
Hanja	梁英子
Revised Romanization	Yang Yeong-yes
McCune- Reischauer	Yang Yŏngja
See also : Korean name

Yang Young-ja (born July 6, 1964 in Iksan , Jeollabuk-do , South Korea ) is a South Korean table tennis player . In the 1980s she became Asian champion, world champion and Olympic champion in doubles.

Career

Yang Young-ja achieved her greatest success in doubles, in which she usually competed with Hyun Jung-hwa . She participated in the world championships in 1983 , 1985 and 1987 . In 1983 she lost to the Chinese Cao Yanhua in the singles final , with the South Korean team she was fifth. Two years later, the South Korean team took bronze. In 1987 she won a medal in all competitions: in singles she won silver behind He Zhili from China, in mixed with Ahn Jae-hyung she won bronze, with the team she came second and doubles with Hyun Jung-hwa became world champion.

At the Asian Championships she reached the final in doubles with Yoon Kyung-mi in 1984, and in 1988 she was Asian champion in doubles with Hyun Jung-hwa and in team competition. In 1988 Yang Young-ja qualified to take part in the first ever Olympic Summer Games for table tennis . With her regular partner Hyun Jung-hwa, she immediately won the gold medal in doubles.

In the ITTF world rankings , Yang Young-ja finished second in June 1983. After 1988 she stopped appearing internationally.

Around 2006, Yang Young-ja was working as a commentator on South Korean television.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1988	Niigata	JPN	Quarter finals	gold	Quarter finals	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1984	Islamabad	PAH	Quarter finals	silver
COR	Asian Cup	1987	Seoul	COR	4th
COR	Asian Games	1986	Seoul	COR	Semifinals	Semifinals	Semifinals	1
COR	Asian Games	1982	New Delhi	IND	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	2
COR	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	last 16	gold
COR	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	silver	gold	Semifinals	2
COR	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16	last 64	last 64	3
COR	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	silver	Quarter finals	last 32	5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical world rankings ( memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 14, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
2. ↑ ITTF-news 2006 ( Memento from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 14, 2011)
3. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 17, 2011)

Web links

• databaseolympics.com (accessed August 14, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yang is the family name here, Young-ja is the first name.