Ye Zhaoying

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ye.
Ye Zhaoying
叶钊颖
Personal information
Born (1974-05-07) 7 May 1974
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
CountryChina
SportBadminton
HandednessRight
Women's singles
Highest ranking1 (January 1996)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  China
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney Women's singles
World Championships
1997 Glasgow Women's singles
1995 Lausanne Women's singles
1993 Birmingham Women's singles
World Cup
1995 Jakarta Women's singles
1997 Yogyakarta Women's singles
1993 New Delhi Women's singles
1994 Ho Chi Minh Women's singles
1996 Jakarta Women's singles
Sudirman Cup
1997 Glasgow Mixed team
1995 Lausanne Mixed team
1993 Birmingham Mixed team
Uber Cup
2000 Kuala Lumpur Women's team
1998 Hong Kong Women's team
1992 Kuala Lumpur Women's team
1996 Hong Kong Women's team
1994 Jakarta Women's team
Asian Games
1998 Bangkok Women's team
1994 Hiroshima Women's singles
1994 Hiroshima Women's team
Asian Championships
1999 Kuala Lumpur Women's singles
1998 Bangkok Women's singles
1995 Beijing Women's singles
1994 Shanghai Women's singles
1992 Kuala Lumpur Women's singles
Asian Cup
1994 Beijing Women's singles

Ye Zhaoying (simplified Chinese: 叶钊颖; traditional Chinese: 葉釗穎; pinyin: Yè Zhāoyǐng; born 7 May 1974) is a retired badminton player from Hangzhou, China. Officially ranked as the number one women's singles player in the world for the first time in December 1995, she lost and regained that ranking several times during her career. Her best years as a player overlapped those of the slightly older Susi Susanti and Bang Soo-hyun, in what some see as a "golden" era in women's badminton.

She retired after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and in 2002, she started a new career as a golfer, trained at the Tian An Golf Club. She married former Chinese footballer and top-scoring striker Hao Haidong in summer 2019.

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