Yang Qian | |
Residence: | Melbourne, Australia (since 2017) |
Birth Date: | 17 June 1996 |
Birth Place: | Qingjian County,[1] Shaanxi, China |
Playingstyle: | Right-handed shakehand grip |
Disability Class: | 10 |
Highest Rank: | 1 (October 2013)[2] |
Current Rank: | 3 (February 2020) |
Height: | 163 cm[3] |
Weight: | 50 kg[4] |
T: | 楊倩 |
P: | Yáng Qiàn |
Yang Qian (born 17 June 1996[5]) is a Chinese-Australian table tennis player who has only a right arm. Yang has won eight medals - four gold and four silver at Paralympic Games.[6] In representing Australia, at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won a gold and silver medal and at the 2024 Paris Paralympics two gold medals.
Yang's left arm was amputated following an accident when she was eight years old. She first played the sport when she was five years old. Yang moved to Melbourne,[3] Australia in 2017 or later.[2] She also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing her only singles match 1–4 to France's Audrey Zarif.[7]
In 2020, Yang represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics where she won the gold medal in the Women's Singles C10 and the silver medal in the Women's Team C9-10 .[8]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won the gold medal in the Women's singles C6–10.[9]
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won two gold medals - Women's Singles 10 and Women's Doubles 20 with Lei Lina.