Yang Yi (table tennis)
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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) Liuzhou, Guangxi, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊毅 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨毅 | ||||||
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Yang Yi (Chinese: 杨毅, born 1952) is a Chinese retired para table tennis player. She won a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.
Yang Yi was disabled by polio at age 3. As an adult, her right leg is shorter than her left leg by 5 cm and much thinner. She began playing table tennis seriously in 1986, after her marriage in 1982 and the birth of her son in 1983.