Ye Zhaoying

Ye Zhaoying 叶钊颖
Personal information
Country	China
Born	(1974-05-07) 7 May 1974 (age 50) Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	1 (January 1996[1])
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  China Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Women's singles World Championships 1997 Glasgow Women's singles 1995 Lausanne Women's singles 1993 Birmingham Women's singles World Cup 1995 Jakarta Women's singles 1997 Yogyakarta Women's singles 1993 New Delhi Women's singles 1994 Ho Chi Minh Women's singles 1996 Jakarta Women's singles Sudirman Cup 1997 Glasgow Mixed team 1995 Lausanne Mixed team 1993 Birmingham Mixed team Uber Cup 2000 Kuala Lumpur Women's team 1998 Hong Kong Women's team 1992 Kuala Lumpur Women's team 1996 Hong Kong Women's team 1994 Jakarta Women's team Asian Games 1998 Bangkok Women's team 1994 Hiroshima Women's singles 1994 Hiroshima Women's team Asian Championships 1999 Kuala Lumpur Women's singles 1998 Bangkok Women's singles 1995 Beijing Women's singles 1994 Shanghai Women's singles 1992 Kuala Lumpur Women's singles Asian Cup 1994 Beijing Women's singles

Ye Zhaoying (simplified Chinese: 叶钊颖; traditional Chinese: 葉釗穎; pinyin: Yè Zhāoyǐng; born 7 May 1974) is a retired badminton player from Hangzhou, China.^[2] Officially ranked as the number one women's singles player in the world for the first time in December 1995, she lost and regained that ranking several times during her career. Her best years as a player overlapped those of the slightly older Susi Susanti and Bang Soo-hyun, in what some see as a "golden" era in women's badminton.

She retired after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and in 2002, she started a new career as a golfer, trained at the Tian An Golf Club.^[2] She married former Chinese footballer and top-scoring striker Hao Haidong in summer 2019.^[3]