PAST MASTER
YANG YANG (CHN): BORN 1976 Olympic Winter Games Ladies’ 500 m Short Track Gold 2002 Ladies’ 1000 m Short Track Gold 2002, Bronze 2006 Ladies’ 3000 m Relay Short Track Silver 2002 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships Ladies’ Overall Gold 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, Silver 2003 Ladies’ 500 m Gold 2005, 2003, 2002, Silver 2001 Ladies’ 1000 m Gold 2002, 2001, Bronze 2003 Ladies’ 1500 m Gold 2001, Bronze 2003
Yang Yang (A) is one of the most accomplished Short Track Speed Skaters of all time. The peak of her career was between 1997 and 2003. She took a couple of years off from competitive skating and came back in 2005 to win the 500 m World Championships title and the 2006 Olympic Winter Games 1000 m bronze medal. In total she has won 12 World Championships titles and became the first Chinese to win an Olympic title when she won the 500 m at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Yang retired from competition shortly after the 2006 Olympic Winter Games but has remained heavily involved in sport ever since. She was elected as an International Olympic Committee Member in 2010 and in 2013 she founded the Feiyang Skating Centre in Shanghai (CHN) a double-rink facility with an Olympic-sized rink upstairs and a recreational-sized rink downstairs. In 2016 Yang was elected as an ISU Council member in the Speed Skating Branch.