Yang Yang (speed skater, born 1977)


Yang Yang is a Chinese Olympic speed skater.
Yang competed as a short track speed skater for the Chinese national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Born 1977, Yang is sometimes known as Yang Yang , to differentiate her from the speed skater named Yang Yang born in 1976.
By coincidence, Yang had a one-year and one month older contemporary on the Chinese short track team also named Yang Yang in English and pinyin, although with a different given name in Chinese characters. They were originally referred to as Yang Yang and Yang Yang , for "Large" and "Small"; Yang Yang disliked the "L" designation and changed her designation to Yang Yang. "A" and "S" also refer to their respective months of birth: August and September respectively.