Great Olympians

Biographies - YA

Yag - Yam - Yan - Yar


Aleksey Yagudin

Russia
1998 2002 HP
Men's Singles fifth gold 11100
11100


Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

Japan
Swimming - Free-Style (4 silver)
1956 1960 1964 HP
400 m Free-style silver silver sixth 9504
1500 m Free-style silver fourth - 5600
4 x 200 m Free-style Relay fourth silver - 1400
16504

At 400m, he was beaten twice by Murray Rose by exactly the same margin, 3.1 sec.


Yang Ling

B. 1972-05-24, Beijing, China
Shooting (2 gold)
1996 2000 HP
Moving Target gold gold 19200
19200


Yang Wei

China
Badminton (1 gold, 1 silver)
2000 2004 2008 HP
Women's Doubles silver gold QF 17146.875
17146.875/13000


Yang Wei

China
Gymnastics (3 gold, 2 silver)
2000 2004 2008 HP
Individual Combined silver 7th gold 13500
Team gold fifth gold 5175
Rings fourth silver 1540
Floor fourth 400
20615


Yang Wenyi

China
Swimming (1 gold, 2 silver)
1988 1992 HP
50 m Free-style silver gold 10400
4 x 100 m Free-style Relay fourth silver 1400
4 x 100 m Medley Relay 17th - 0.64
11800.64


Yang Yang (A)

B. 1976-08-24, Heilonggiang, China
Short Track (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
1998 2002 2006 HP
500 m 15th gold 6410
1000 m 8th gold bronze 9216
1500 m fourth 13th 1625.6
3000 m, team silver silver fourth 2640
19891.6

Two chinese ladies dominated short track skating in the 1990's, and they were both called Yang Yang, or rather their names were spelled the same in the Latin alphabet, because they are not related and their names are written differently and mean different things in Chinese. Yang Yang (A) means "flying flag" and Yang Yang (S) means "sunshine." The (A) and (S) initials were designed as a way to help Westerners distinguish them. Originally, (S) stood for small, and Yang Yang (A) was called Yang Yang (L) for large, but she found it somewhat offensive and changed it.
By winning two golds at Salt Lake City, Yang Yang (A) proved the more successfull of the two.


Yang Yang (S)

B. 1977, China
Short Track (4 silver, 1 bronze)
1994 1998 2002 HP
500 m 7th silver - 4400
1000 m fifth silver bronze 8316
1500 m sixth 640
3000 m, team 8th silver silver 2064
15420


Ivan Yarigin

B. 1948, Russia, Soviet Union; D. 1997-10-11 in a car crash
Wrestling - Free-Style (2 gold)
1972 1976 HP
-100 kg gold gold 19200
19200


last modified 2002-10-30

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