Huang Yaqiong (, born 28 February 1994) is a Chinese

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

player who specializes in doubles. She won the prestigious

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in 2017 partnered with

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, and in

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with Zheng Siwei. Together with Lu, she emerged as the champion at the 2017 Asian Championships. With her current partner Zheng, she won the gold medal at the

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, and claimed the BWF World Championships titles in

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, and 2022. Huang was made the Female Player of the Year by the BWF in 2018 and 2019.

Career

Huang and her partner, Zheng Siwei, competed at the

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as the top seeds. They won a silver medal after being defeated by their compatriots

Wang Yilyu Wang Yilyu (; ; born 8 November 1994), sometimes also transliterated as Wang Yilu, Wang Yilv or Wang Yilü, is a Chinese badminton player. He is the reigning mixed doubles Olympic Champion, and was two-time mixed doubles Asian Champion winning ...

and Huang Dongping in the final in a close rubber game.

Achievements

Olympic Games

''Mixed doubles''

BWF World Championships

''Mixed doubles''

Asian Games

''Mixed doubles''

Asian Championships

''Mixed doubles''

BWF World Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

Asian Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles''

BWF World Tour (24 titles, 8 runners-up)

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(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. ''Mixed doubles''

BWF Superseries (9 titles, 3 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006, and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the

(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. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year. ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

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tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament :

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tournament

BWF Grand Prix (10 titles, 8 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

(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. Huang Yaqiong

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament

Performance timeline

National team

* ''Junior level'' * ''Senior level''

Individual competitions

Junior level

* ''Girls' doubles'' * ''Mixed doubles''

Senior level

= Women's doubles

= Mixed doubles

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Yaqiong 1994 births Living people Badminton players from Zhejiang Chinese female badminton players Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of China Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games World No. 1 badminton players BWF Best Female Player of the Year 21st-century Chinese women