Yang Young-ja

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|caption= Jung-Hwa and Young-Ja (right) at the 1988 Olympics

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Yang Young-Ja ({{Korean|양영자|梁英子|Yang Yeong-ja}}; born July 6, 1964) is a retired female table tennis player from South Korea.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=young-ja-yang-90081|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}

Table tennis career

She won gold medals in women's doubles at the 1987 ITTF World Championships{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}} and the 1988 Summer Olympics, together with Hyun Jung-Hwa. She is also a two-time women's singles world champion runner-up in 1983 and 1987.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417233727/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/yang-yeong-ja-1.html Yang Yeong-Ja]. sports-reference.com[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124523/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/TTN/womens-doubles.html Table Tennis at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's Doubles]. sports-reference.com

She retired right after the 1988 Summer Olympics, and currently resides in Seoul working as a table tennis coach responsible for the junior team of South Korea.