Lee Yang

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lee.

Lee Yang 李洋
Lee in 2024
Personal information
Country	Taiwan (ROC)
Born	(1995-08-12) 12 August 1995 (age 29) Taipei, Taiwan
Residence	Jinning, Kinmen, Taiwan
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Handedness	Right
Men's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking	7 (MD with Lee Jhe-huei, 6 July 2017) 2 (MD with Wang Chi-lin, 27 September 2022) 27 (XD with Hsu Ya-ching, 2 November 2017)
Medal record Men's badminton Representing  Chinese Taipei Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Men's doubles 2024 Paris Men's doubles Thomas Cup 2024 Chengdu Men's team Asian Games 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Men's doubles 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Men's team 2022 Hangzhou Men's doubles Asian Championships 2023 Dubai Men's doubles Summer Universiade 2017 Taipei Mixed team 2017 Taipei Men's doubles 2017 Taipei Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Lee Yang (Chinese: 李洋; pinyin: Lǐ Yáng; born 12 August 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player.[1][2] He is the Olympic men's doubles champion in 2020 and 2024, becoming the first unseeded men's doubles pair ever in Olympics history to win consecutive gold medals.[3] Lee also won the bronze medals at the 2018 and 2022 Asian Games, as well at the 2023 Asian Championships. With his former partner Wang Chi-lin, they reached a career high as World number 2 in September 2022.[4]

Career

Lee was born in Taipei in 1995, his paternal line was originated from Kinmen and has his household registration located in Jinning, Kinmen. He was educated and raised in Taipei and has started his career in badminton in fifth grade. Lee played in the men's doubles with Lee Jhe-huei. They were champions in 2016 at the Vietnam Open Grand Prix. In 2015, together they entered the 2015 Chinese Taipei Masters Grand Prix, 2015 Vietnam Open Grand Prix, and 2015 Korea Masters Grand Prix Gold. In 2016 they entered the 2016 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold, 2016 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold and 2016 Dutch Open Grand Prix. He won the men's doubles title at the 2017 French Open.[5] In 2018, he competed at the Asian Games and won bronze medals in the men's doubles and team events.[6]

Lee made a new partnership with Wang Chi-lin in the end of 2018.[7] Wang and Lee are class mates from junior high school. The duo reached six finals in the 2019 BWF World Tour, managed to win the Spain Masters, Orléans Masters, India Open, and Korea Masters.[8][9][10]

In 2021, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he partnered with Wang Chi-lin to defeat the 2018 World Champion pairing of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen in the final. They became the first unseeded pair to win an Olympic gold in the men's doubles event and the first to win a gold in badminton for Chinese Taipei.[11]

In 2024, at the 2024 Paris Olympics, he and his partner Wang Chi-lin repeated the feat to win in the men's doubles finals as an unseeded pair, making history to become the first men's doubles pair in history to defend their Olympic title.[12][13] Lai Ching-te, the current President of Taiwan, congratulated Lee and Wang on their victory by referring to the pair as "the country's glory".[14]

After appearing in the 2024 Taipei Open, Lee retired from professional badminton to become a lecturer at the National Taiwan Sport University.[15][16] A farewell ceremony for Yang was held after the Taipei Open tournament on 9 September 2024.[17]

Achievements

Olympic Games

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2020	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan	Wang Chi-lin	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	21–18, 21–12	Gold
2024	Porte de La Chapelle Arena, Paris, France	Wang Chi-lin	Liang Weikeng Wang Chang	21–17, 18–21, 21–19	Gold

Asian Games

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Istora Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia	Lee Jhe-huei	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	15–21, 22–20, 12–21	Bronze
2022	Binjiang Gymnasium, Hangzhou, China	Wang Chi-lin	Choi Sol-gyu Kim Won-ho	12–21, 10–21	Bronze

Asian Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2023	Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Wang Chi-lin	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	18–21, 14–13 retired	Bronze

Summer Universiade

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Taipei Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan	Lee Jhe-huei	Katsuki Tamate Kenya Mitsuhashi	21–13, 14–21, 18–21	Bronze

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Taipei Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan	Hsu Ya-ching	Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub Goh Yea Ching	14–21, 16–21	Bronze

World University Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Sports Palace "Borisoglebskiy", Ramenskoe, Russia	Lee Jhe-huei	Choi Sol-gyu Kim Jae-hwan	21–19, 14–21, 17–21	Silver

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Sports Palace "Borisoglebskiy", Ramenskoe, Russia	Hsu Ya-ching	Mohd Lutfi Zaim Abdul Khalid Shevon Jamie Lai	21–13, 21–19	Gold

BWF World Tour (8 titles, 6 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[18] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[19]

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Spain Masters	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Kim Won-ho Seo Seung-jae	21–8, 23–21	Winner
2019	Swiss Open	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	19–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2019	Orléans Masters	Super 100	Wang Chi-lin	Akira Koga Taichi Saito	16–21, 22–20, 21–15	Winner
2019	India Open	Super 500	Wang Chi-lin	Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi	21–14, 21–14	Winner
2019	U.S. Open	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Ko Sung-hyun Shin Baek-cheol	13–21, 21–17, 3–6 retired	Runner-up
2019	Korea Masters	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	21–19, 20–22, 21–19	Winner
2020	Spain Masters	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	17–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2020 (I)	Thailand Open	Super 1000	Wang Chi-lin	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	21–16, 21–23, 21–19	Winner
2020 (II)	Thailand Open	Super 1000	Wang Chi-lin	Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik	21–13, 21–18	Winner
2020	BWF World Tour Finals	World Tour Finals	Wang Chi-lin	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–17, 23–21	Winner
2022	Taipei Open	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun	18–21, 21–10, 18–21	Runner-up
2023	Japan Open	Super 750	Wang Chi-lin	Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	21–19, 21–13	Winner
2023	Hylo Open	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi	22–24, 13–21	Runner-up
2023	Korea Masters	Super 300	Wang Chi-lin	Lee Jhe-huei Yang Po-hsuan	17–21, 19–21	Runner-up

BWF Superseries (1 title)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[20] was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011.[21] Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	French Open	Lee Jhe-huei	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	21–19, 23–21	Winner

  BWF Superseries Finals tournament

  BWF Superseries Premier tournament

  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Vietnam Open	Lee Jhe-huei	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	18–21, 21–14, 21–7	Winner
2016	Dutch Open	Lee Jhe-huei	Mathias Christiansen David Daugaard	21–17, 21–17	Winner
2016	Macau Open	Lee Jhe-huei	Lu Kai Zhang Nan	17–21, 21–18, 21–19	Winner
2016	Korea Masters	Lee Jhe-huei	Kim Jae-hwan Ko Sung-hyun	19–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2017	Chinese Taipei Open	Lee Jhe-huei	Chen Hung-ling Wang Chi-lin	16–21, 20–22	Runner-up

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (1 runner-up)

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Malaysia International	Lee Jhe-huei	Lin Chia-yu Wu Hsiao-lin	21–17, 16–21, 18–21	Runner-up

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament

References

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16. "Double-Olympic gold medallist Lee Yang retires: The unlikely Badminton doubles star who often surprised himself". The Indian Express. 15 September 2024. Archived from the original on 8 November 2024.
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18. Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
19. Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
20. "BWF Launches Super Series". Badminton Australia. 15 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007.
21. "Yonex All England Elevated To BWF Premier Super Series Event". IBadmintonstore. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

External links

• Lee Yang at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (alternate link)
• Lee Yang at BWFBadminton.com
• Lee Yang at Olympedia (archive)
• Lee Yang at Olympics.com
• Lee Yang at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics