Brian Yang (badminton)

Brian Yang
Brian Yang
	Yang in 2018
Personal information
Country	Canada
Born	25 November 2001; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence	Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Handedness	Right
Men's singles
Highest ranking	21 (27 December 2022)
Current ranking	23 (30 January 2024)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing Canada
Pan American Games
Pan Am Championships
Pan Am Mixed Team Championships
Pan Am Male Cup
Junior Pan American Games
Pan Am Junior Championships
Representing Mixed-NOCs
Youth Olympic Games
	BWF profile

Brian Yang (born 25 November 2001) is a Canadian badminton player. He was an integral part of the Team Alpha that won the mixed team relay gold at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Career

Badminton player Brian Yang with a buzz cut with bangs

In 2016, he won three gold medals at the U–19 Pan Am Junior Championships, winning the boys' doubles, mixed doubles, and team events.

Yang won his first senior international title at 2017 Suriname International in the men's singles. In July, he won the boys' singles and mixed doubles titles at the Pan Am Junior Championships, while the Canada team captured the silver medal.

Yang represented Canada in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and Thomas Cup. At the El Salvador International, he won two titles in the men's singles and mixed doubles.

Yang clinched the men's singles title at the 2019 Canadian National Championships and became Canada's youngest national champion. He competed at the Sudirman Cup. Yang was named to Canada's 2019 Pan American Games team, ended up winning silver in the men's singles competition. He was crowned as the men's singles champion at the 2021 Pan Am Championships. He also won the gold medals in the boys' singles, doubles and mixed team at the Pan Am Junior Championships.

In June 2021, Yang was named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the first edition of the Junior Pan Am Games, clinching the gold medals in the boys' singles and mixed doubles.

In 2022, he won a silver medal at the Pan Am Championships, losing to Kevin Cordón in the final.

In his second appearance at the Pan American Games, Yang captured the gold medal in the men's singles after beating the defending champion Kevin Cordón in the final.

Achievements

Pan American Games

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2019	Polideportivo 3, Lima, Peru	Ygor Coelho	19–21, 10–21	Silver
2023	Olympic Training Center, Santiago, Chile	Kevin Cordón (EAI)	21–18, 21–6	Gold

Pan Am Championships

Men's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2021	Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Jason Ho-Shue	21–13, 18–10 retired	Gold
2022	Palacio de los Deportes Carlos "El Famoso" Hernández, San Salvador, El Salvador	Kevin Cordón	17–21, 14–21	Silver
2023	G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, Kingston, Jamaica	Uriel Canjura	21–10, 21–5	Gold

Junior Pan American Games

Boys' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2021	Pacific Valley Events Center, Yumbo, Valle, Colombia	Uriel Canjura	21–8, 21–6	Gold

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2021	Pacific Valley Events Center, Yumbo, Valle, Colombia	Rachel Chan	Uriel Canjura Fátima Centeno	21–13, 21–14	Gold

Pan Am Junior Championships

Boys' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2017	Markham Pan Am Centre, Markham, Canada	Jonathan Matias	21–14, 21–13	Gold
2019	CEPS Louis-J.-Robichaud, Moncton, Canada	Kevin Wang	21–15, 21–8	Gold

Boys' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result	Ref
2016	CAR la Videna, Lima, Peru	Desmond Wang	Ricky Liuzhou Cadmus Yeo	17–21, 21–15, 21–13	Gold
2019	CEPS Louis-J.-Robichaud, Moncton, Canada	Jonathan Chien	Clayton Cayen Ryan Zheng	21–10, 23–21	Gold

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	CAR la Videna, Lima, Peru	Katie Ho-Shue	Vinson Chiu Jamie Hsu	21–14, 21–14	Gold
2017	Markham Pan Am Centre, Markham, Canada	Katie Ho-Shue	Fabricio Farias Sâmia Lima	21–14, 21–11	Gold
2019	CEPS Louis-J.-Robichaud, Moncton, Canada	Catherine Choi	Jonathan Chien Crystal Lai	21–18, 19–21, 18–21	Silver

BWF World Tour (1 runner-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Level	Opponent	Score	Result
2024	Indonesia Masters	Super 500	Anders Antonsen	21–18, 13–21, 18–21	Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series (9 titles, 4 runners-up)

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Suriname International	Osleni Guerrero	12–21, 21–17, 21–14	Winner
2018	El Salvador International	Heymard Humblers	21–11, 18–21, 21–16	Winner
2019	Brazil International	Misha Zilberman	17–21, 20–22	Runner-up
2019	Peru Future Series	B. R. Sankeerth	21–12, 11–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2019	Peru International	Kevin Cordón	15–21, 21–13, 21–12	Winner
2019	Santo Domingo Open	Kevin Cordón	21–8, 21–4	Winner
2019	Suriname International	Kevin Cordón	Walkover	Winner
2019	Turkey Open	Luís Enrique Peñalver	19–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2021	Peru International	Ygor Coelho	21–16, 21–18	Winner
2021	Denmark Masters	Victor Svendsen	16–21, 21–17, 21–15	Winner
2022	Canadian International	Takuma Obayashi	11–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2023	Canadian International	Victor Lai	21–15, 21–12	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	El Salvador International	Catherine Choi	Aníbal Marroquín Dánica Nishimura	21–6, 21–7	Winner

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament