Yang Wenyi

Yang Wenyi (; born January 11, 1972, in Shanghai) is a former freestyle and backstroke swimmer from China, whose best performance was winning the gold medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain and in the same year she won the same event at the 4th Asian Championships. She was one of "Five Golden Flowers" of Chinese swimming.

She was born in 1972 in Shanghai and she joined the national team and began intense training in 1986. During her career she broke national swimming records eighteen times.

After retirement, she owned "Jinyi Sports Promotion Ltd", holding sports contests and running "Yang Wenyi Swimming Club". The club is located in Minhang, Shanghai.

High performances 1987 – Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Bronze – 4x100 m medley relay 1988 – Asian Swimming Championships Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.98 WR) Gold – 100 m backstroke (1:03.08, Asian best) Gold – 4x100 m medley relay Gold – 4x100m freestyle relay 1988 – Seoul Olympic Games Silver – 50 m freestyle 1990 – Beijing Asian Games Gold – 50 m freestyle Gold – 100 m backstroke Gold – 4x100 m freestyle relay 1991 – World University Games Gold – 50 m freestyle 1992 – Barcelona Olympic Games Gold – 50 m freestyle (24.79 WR)

Honours 1989 – Selected one of National Top Ten Athletes 1989 – Voted one of forty Sports Stars in forty years since the founding of new China in 1949