Yang Wenyi

Yang Wenyi, born on 11 January 1972 in Shanghai, is a former Chinese freestyle and backstroke swimmer and one of the Five Golden Flowers of Chinese swimming. She won the 50 metre freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in a world record 24.79 seconds and the same event at that year's Asian Championships, and was the first woman to swim the 50 metres in under 25 seconds, at the age of 20. She had won silver in the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and gold at the 1990 Beijing Asian Games and the 1991 World University Games. She joined the national team in 1986 and broke national records eighteen times. After retiring she ran Jinyi Sports Promotion and the Yang Wenyi Swimming Club in Minhang, Shanghai.