Yang competed at the
2018 Asian Games in the following competitions:
100 metre freestyle winning bronze in 54.17,
200 metre freestyle winning silver in 1:57.48,
women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay winning the silver medal and
4 x 200 m freestyle relay winning gold. At the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Yang won bronze in the
50 metre freestyle event in 25.47, silver in the
100 metre freestyle event in 54.43 and silver in the
200 metre freestyle event in 1:58.05, as well as gold in the
4 x 100 metre relay event (her time of 53.99 being the best of all participants) and gold in the
mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay event. Yang Junxuan won gold in all seven swimming events she competed in at the
2019 Wuhan Military World Games. At the
2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, Yang contributed to China's gold medal in the
4x200 metre freestyle relay, with her team setting a world record. She also won silver in the 4x100 metre mixed medley. At the
2024 Paris Olympics, Yang and her team won bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relays and set a new Asian record with a time of 3:30.30, surpassing their previous record from the 2023 World Championships. Yang, who was in the starting leg, set a new Chinese national record in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 52.48. Yang's 51.96 final freestyle anchor-leg swim in the
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay race helped her team beat the
previous world record time of 3:37.58 set by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 3:37.55, however she and her team had to settle for the Silver medal as the U.S. swim team captured the Gold medal with a faster new world record time of 3:37.43. ==See also==