Wang with her silver medal of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
Country
China
Born
(2000-04-29) 29 April 2000 (age 24) Shashi, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
Height
1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight
65 kg (143 lb)
Coach
Luo Yigang
Women's singles
Highest ranking
6 (31 January 2023)
Current ranking
7 (21 May 2024)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing China
Sudirman Cup
2021 Vantaa
Mixed team
2023 Suzhou
Mixed team
Uber Cup
2020 Aarhus
Women's team
2024 Chengdu
Women's team
2022 Bangkok
Women's team
Asian Games
2022 Hangzhou
Women's team
Asian Championships
2022 Manila
Women's singles
2024 Ningbo
Women's singles
Youth Olympic Games
2018 Buenos Aires
Girls' singles
World Junior Championships
2017 Yogyakarta
Mixed team
2018 Markham
Mixed team
2018 Markham
Girls' singles
Asian Junior Championships
2018 Jakarta
Girls' singles
2018 Jakarta
Mixed team
BWF profile
Wang Zhiyi (Chinese: 王祉怡; pinyin: Wáng Zhǐyí; born 29 April 2000) is a Chinese badminton player from Shashi, Jingzhou, in Hubei province.[1] She started her career as a badminton player by training in Jingzhou sports school. She went to the Hubei provincial training centre in 2009, and was selected to join the team in 2013. In 2016, Wang joined the national team, and became part of the national second team in 2017.[2] She was the girls' singles champion at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships, and also helped the national team to clinch the mixed team title.[1] Wang represented her country at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and clinched the girls' singles silver.[3] She won the women's singles title at the 2022 Asian Championships, which is the biggest title of her career.[4]
^ ab"骄傲!荆州又诞生一位体坛冠军,她才18岁!". Sohu (in Chinese). 25 July 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
^"荆州籍羽毛球新星闪耀亚洲 市教体局上门送祝福". Jingzhou City Department of Education and Sports (in Chinese). 2 August 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
^"王祉怡:永不"祉"步 "怡"于拼搏 "王"者归来". Central China Normal University (in Chinese). 24 October 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
^Malanum, Jean (3 May 2022). "Wang stuns top seed Yamaguchi, rules Asia Championships". The Manila Times. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
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