Yao Ximing

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Yao Ximing (Template:Zh; born September 15, 1956) is a former badminton player from China and current coach at the Vancouver Racquet Club in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Career

A doubles specialist, Yao and partner Sun Zhian captured the men's doubles title at the 1979 World Championships in Hangzhou run by the short-lived World Badminton Federation, a China-led organization then in competition with the older International Badminton Federation. When the political complaints against the International Badminton Federation were resolved, Yao and Sun won men's doubles at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara, California, the first major IBF sanctioned tournament in which China's players participated.[1] In 1982 Yao and Sun helped China wrest the coveted Thomas Cup (men's world team trophy) from Indonesia, by defeating Indonesia's Kartono and Heryanto and thus gaining the critical fifth point in a best of nine match series.[2] Yao and Sun participated in the 1983 IBF World Championships in Copenhagen but they were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Yao later migrated to the USA where he coached and played, winning the 1986 U.S. Open men's doubles with former Pakistani star Tariq Wadood. A few years later he moved to Canada where he became a coach at the Vancouver Racquet Club.

Achievements

World Championships

Men's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1979 Hangzhou,
China
Template:Flagicon Sun Zhian Template:Flagicon Luan Jin
Template:Flagicon Yu Yaodong
15–9, 15–3 Gold Gold

World Games

Men's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1981 San Jose Civic Auditorium, California, United States Template:Flagicon Sun Zhian Template:Flagicon Stefan Karlsson
Template:Flagicon Thomas Kihlström
12–15, 15–4, 15–6 Gold Gold

Asian Championships

Men's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1976 Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad,
India
Template:Flagicon Sun Zhian Template:Flagicon Ade Chandra
Template:Flagicon Tjun Tjun
Walkover Silver Silver

Invitational tournament

Men's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
1977 Asian Invitational Championships Template:Flagicon Sun Zhian Template:Flagicon Hou Jiachang
Template:Flagicon Yu Yaodong
Walkover Bronze Bronze

References

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  1. Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 111.
  2. Craig Reedie, "Thomas Cup Report," World Badminton, June 1982, 2, 3.

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