Yang Jianping

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Yang Jianping
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NationalityChinese
Born (1979-12-10) December 10, 1979 (age 42)
Taiyuan, Shanxi, China [1]
Sport
Sport Archery

Yang Jianping (born 10 December 1979) [2] is a Chinese recurve archer.

Yang competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics where she came 6th in the women's team event and 29th in the individual. She also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics where she came 6th in the women's team event and 12th in the individual event. [1]

She won a bronze medal at the 2002 Asian Games in the women's team event, [3] a gold medal at the 2001 World Archery Championships in the women's team event and a gold medal at the 2000 World University Archery Championships in the women's individual event. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Yang Jianping Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  2. "Jianping YANG - Olympic Archery | People's Republic of China". International Olympic Committee. 18 June 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  3. "Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Asian Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
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