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Yang, Shen
Wednesday, 04 March 2009

shenyang.jpg The young star of the new superpower in China had a youth debut back in 2001 by winning Under 12 Girls World Youth Championship. She won the World Junior Girls title in 2006. She also has a successful record for her national team since she was the member of the Chinese national team that won the bronze medal in the last two Olympiads and also that won the first edition of the World Teams Championship for women.


She qualified for the quarter finals in World Championship for women last year in Nalchik and eliminated by Humpy Koneru. Up to the undesirable end, she was the upset of the championship since she eliminated Xu Yuhua, world champion then, and Nadezhda Kosintseva.


 
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