# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wang-yihan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:27:14.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wang-yihan"
name: "Wang Yihan"
slug: "wang-yihan"
description: "Wang Yihan is a retired Chinese professional badminton player and former women's singles world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006, she began to shine in major tournaments. By October 2009 she was the top ranked Women's singles player in the world."
tagline: "Chinese badminton player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Badminton-wang_yihan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1988-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.03
  momentum:             0.251937984496124
  historical:           20.19046533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump