Xu Yang

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Xu Yang (high jumper)

Xu Yang (born 27 June 1970 in Jiangsu) is a retired Chinese high jumper.

He won the silver medals at the 1993 and 1995 Asian Championships and the bronze medal at the 1994 Asian Games. He also competed at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Olympic Games without reaching the final.

His personal best jump is 2.31 metres, achieved in September 1993 in Beijing.

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Xu Yang (footballer, born 1987)

Xu Yang (born June 18, 1987 in Shandong) he is a Chinese professional football player who currently plays for Chongqing Lifan in the Chinese Super League.

Club career

Xu Yang graduated from the Shandong Luneng youth team in 2006 after playing for their various youth teams that trained in Serbia and would soon join a third tier Serbian club in FK Beograd for the second part of the 2006-07 season. However his time in the senior team was to prove extremely frustrating after he was unable to immediately break into the squad. Shandong Luneng were willing to let Xu Yang transfer to Henan Jianye in 2008 where he would make his debut against Changsha Ginde F.C. on 7 September 2008 in a 1-0 loss. Xu Yang would nevertheless quickly established himself within the squad and eventually play in 13 league games throughout the 2008 league season.

On 2 January 2016, Xu transferred to fellow Chinese Super League side Chongqing Lifan.

International career

A promising youngster Xu Yang would be called in Gao Hongbo's first National squad. He would make his debut against Iran in a friendly, which China won 1-0 on 1 June 2009, where Xu Yang played as a left winger throughout the game.

Xu Yang (Qing dynasty)

Xu Yang (simplified Chinese: 徐扬; traditional Chinese: 徐揚; 1712–after 1777) was a court painter to the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. A native of Suzhou, he was active ca. 1750–1776.

He painted several handscrolls of note, including The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour and Prosperous Suzhou.

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Xu Yang (footballer, born 1979)

Xu Yang (Chinese: 徐洋; pinyin: Xú Yáng) (born 5 June 1979 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a former Chinese footballer who mainly played for Shenyang Haishi as a defender.

Club career

Shenyang Haishi

Xu Yang started his football career playing for was his local youth team Shenyang Haishi and would graduate to their senior team in the 1999 league season to begin his professional football career. He would slowly establish himself as a squad regular until the 2001 league season when he played in 13 league games to establish himself within the squad. The following seasons would see him as a first choice regular able to play as a defensive midfielder or a centre-back and when the club moved away from Shenyang to Changsha as well as renaming themselves Changsha Ginde, he would join them.

Shanghai Shenhua

After eight seasons with his previous club Xu would transfer to top tier football club Shanghai Shenhua as a reliable replacement for existing centre-back Li Weifeng half-way through the 2008 league season. At the beginning of the 2009 league season the manager Jia Xiuquan would decide to make Du Wei and Yanko Valkanov as the preferred first choice centre back pair after they were chosen together in the club's debut game of the season against Singapore Armed Forces FC on March 11, 2009 in the 2009 AFC Champions League. As the season progressed Xu would only make a handful appearances before being dropped to the reserve team in the 2010 league season before leaving.

Xu Yang (footballer, born 1974)

Xu Yang (simplified Chinese: 徐阳; traditional Chinese: 徐陽; pinyin: Xú Yáng; born 6 June 1974) was a former Chinese international football who played as a midfielder. After his retirement as a player, he worked as a football coach for Beijing Baxy before he became a football pundit for CCTV sports channel.

Biography

Club career

Following in the footsteps of his father Xu Yang would begin his football career when he joined the Bayi youth team at the age of twelve and showed a ruthless elegance within midfield. As a strong and increasingly confident young player he'll break into the senior team in 1994 and start out as a right-midfielder. While he stayed with the club for several further seasons and even helped the team finish third during the 1996 league season he felt that his playing time was limited and that it was better for him to develop somewhere else. On December 20, 1996 he asked for a transfer request and would transfer to Beijing Guoan at the beginning of the 1997 league season, however injury in his debut season saw his time limited. When Shen Xiangfu became Head coach of Beijing Xu Yang finally showed his potential as a creative midfielder and was quickly called up to the Chinese national team. At the beginning of the 2001 league season Xu Yang was at the peak of his career and he was expected to move to Chongqing Lifan before Shandong Luneng hijacked him for 3,500,000 Yuan. His move turned out to be a disappointment and Xu Yang tried to get a move away from the team with a return to Bayi Football Team being his preferred destination. Due to his attempts at a move away, Shandong held him to his contract and Xu Yang decided to retire from football before he turned thirty.