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{{Short description|Chinese-born Dutch badminton player}}
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| country                 = Netherlands
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| event                   = Women's singles
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| current_ranking         = 32
| date_of_current_ranking = 2 May 2013<ref>[http://www.internationalbadminton.org/ranking_ms.asp?id=2 BWF World Ranking – Women's Singles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620091850/http://www.internationalbadminton.org/ranking_ms.asp?id=2 |date=20 June 2008 }}</ref>
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{{MedalSport | Women's [[badminton]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{NED}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Badminton World Cup|World Cup]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2005 Badminton World Cup|2005 Yiyang]] | Women's singles }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Uber Cup]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2006 Uber Cup|2006 Tokyo]] | Women's team }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[European Badminton Championships|European Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[2002 European Badminton Championships|2002 Malmö]] | Women's singles }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2004 European Badminton Championships|2004 Geneva]] | Women's singles }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2006 European Badminton Championships|2006 Den Bosch]] | Women's singles }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2012 European Badminton Championships|2012 Karlskrona]] | Women's singles }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[European Mixed Team Badminton Championships|European Mixed Team Championships]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2004 European Badminton Championships|2004 Geneva]] | Mixed team }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2006 European Badminton Championships|2006 Den Bosch]] | Mixed team }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2002 European Badminton Championships|2002 Malmö]] | Mixed team }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships|European Women's Team Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[2006 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships|2006 Thessalonica]] | Women's team }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2008 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships|2008 Almere]] | Women's team }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2012 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships|2012 Amsterdam]] | Women's team }}
{{MedalCountry | {{CHN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Badminton at the East Asian Games|East Asian Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[Badminton at the 1997 East Asian Games|1997 Busan]] | Women's team }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[BWF World Junior Championships|World Junior Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1994 IBF World Junior Championships|1994 Kuala Lumpur]] | Girls' doubles }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1994 IBF World Junior Championships|1994 Kuala Lumpur]] | Mixed doubles }}
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'''Yao Jie''' ({{lang-zh|s=姚洁|t=姚潔|p=Yáo Jié}}; born 10 April 1977<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054106/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/jie-yao-1.html sports-reference.com]</ref>) is a [[People's Republic of China|Chinese-born]] [[badminton]] player who now resides in the [[Netherlands]].

Yao is one of a number of badminton players who have emigrated from China, in part, because the depth of badminton talent in that country has made it difficult for them to be selected for major international competitions. Prior to her move to the Netherlands, she won the [[BWF World Junior Championships]] in girls' doubles with [[Liu Lu (badminton)|Liu Lu]] in 1994 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and helped the Chinese national women's team clinch a gold medal at the 1997 East Asian Games.<ref>{{cite news |title=East Asian Games: Chinese Women Squeeze by Korea to Take Team Gold |url=http://www.worldbadminton.com/shuttlenws/19970514a.html |publisher=New Shuttlenws |date=14 May 1997 |access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref> But her passion was for the ladies singles event.

Since moving to the Netherlands Yao Jie has won the women's singles event 4 times at the [[Dutch Open (badminton)|Dutch Open]] (2003, 2008, 2009 & 2011), she won the [[Thailand Open (badminton)|Thailand Open]] twice (2004, 2005), and the biennial [[European Badminton Championships|European Championships]] once ([[2002 European Badminton Championships|2002]]), and a high number of 11 [[Dutch National Badminton Championships|Dutch National Championships]]. Nine times the Dutch crown in singles and twice in doubles. She was also a 3-times European bronze medalist in the [[2004 European Badminton Championships|2004]], [[2006 European Badminton Championships]] and [[2012 European Badminton Championships]]. She won the Velo Dutch International twice, in 2001 beating [[Mia Audina]] 9–11, 11–1, 13–10 and in 2012 beating Malaysian [[Sonia Su Ya Cheah]] 19–21, 21–9, 21–12 in the final. She also won the [[Italian International]] in 2011 beating Bulgarian [[Petya Nedelcheva]] in the final 21–11, 21–17 and won the [[Arctic Open|Finnish International]] Open in 2012 beating Canadian [[Michelle Li]] 22–20, 21–19. Yao Jie was a runner-up to [[Zhang Ning]] at the [[China Open (badminton)|China Open]] in [[2006 China Open (badminton)|2006]], runner-up to [[Juliane Schenk]] of Germany at the [[2010 Dutch Open]], runner-up to [[Li Xuerui]] of China at the 2011 [[Bitburger Open]] Grand Prix Gold and runner-up to [[Juliane Schenk]] at the 2012 [[Bitburger Open]] Grand Prix Gold.

Her performances at [[Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Olympic Games]] and at recent [[BWF World Championships]] have not been among her strongest. She was eliminated in the round of 16 at the Athens Games by [[Hong Kong]]'s [[Wang Chen (badminton player)|Wang Chen]] and has proceeded no farther than that round in any of her World Championship appearances. A big disappointment was her non-participation at the [[2008 Olympic Games]] in her native China, despite being qualified by the international norm, but not by the stricter Dutch qualifying norm. In January 2009 Yao Jie married Dutch player [[Eric Pang]].

In March 2011 Yao Jie was part of the Dutch Fource team, together with Dutch top players [[Dicky Palyama]], [[Judith Meulendijks]] and [[Eric Pang]]. This team was formed as a result of a conflict with the [[Dutch Badminton Association|Nederlandse Badminton Bond]] sponsored by Yonex, and these four players were non Yonex sponsored players, Yao Jie playing for sponsor Carlton. The conflict heightened in 2011 when these four non Yonex sponsored players were not included in the National squad to play the European Team Championships in Amsterdam. Despite all these juridical sponsor wranglings, Yao Jie managed to qualify for the [[2012 Olympic Games|London Olympics]]. At the [[2012 Olympic Games]] in the [[Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics|Women's Singles]] Yao Jie won Group F by beating [[Akvilė Stapušaitytė]] of Lithuania 21–16, 21–7 and [[Ragna Ingólfsdóttir]] of Iceland 21–12, 25–23. After the group stage, in the knock-out stage round of 16 Yao Jie lost to [[Saina Nehwal]] of India 14–21, 16–21. Saina later progressed to win India's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze.

Nowadays Yao Jie has her own Badminton Academy at her hometown [[Wuhan]] in China and is ambassador for Dutch Badminton in sports and cultural exchanges between the Netherlands and China.

== Achievements ==

=== World Cup ===
''Women's singles''
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year
! Venue
! Opponent
! Score
! Result
|- style="background:#F3E6D7"
| align="center" | [[2005 Badminton World Cup|2005]]
| align="left" | Olympic Park, [[Yiyang]], China
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhang Ning]]
| align="left" | Walkover
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 3.png|Bronze]] '''Bronze'''
|}

=== European Championships ===
''Women's singles''
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year
! Venue
! Opponent
! Score
! Result
|- style="background:#ECF2FF"
| align="center" | [[2002 European Badminton Championships|2002]]
| align="left" | [[Baltiska hallen]], [[Malmö]], Sweden
| align="left" | {{flagicon|NED}} [[Mia Audina]]
| align="left" | 8–6, 7–3, 7–1
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 1.png|Gold]] '''Gold'''
|- style="background:#ECF2FF"
| align="center" | [[2004 European Badminton Championships|2004]]
| align="left" | Queue d’Arve Sport Center, [[Geneva]], Switzerland
| align="left" | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Pi Hongyan]]
| align="left" | 4–11, 6–11
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 3.png|Bronze]] '''Bronze'''
|- style="background:#ECF2FF"
| align="center" | [[2006 European Badminton Championships|2006]]
| align="left" | [[Maaspoort Sports and Events]], [[Den Bosch]], Netherlands
| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} [[Xu Huaiwen]]
| align="left" | Walkover
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 3.png|Bronze]] '''Bronze'''
|- style="background:#ECF2FF"
| align="center" | [[2012 European Badminton Championships|2012]]
| align="left" | [[Telenor Arena Karlskrona|Telenor Arena]], [[Karlskrona]], Sweden
| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} [[Juliane Schenk]]
| align="left" | 13–21, 10–21
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 3.png|Bronze]] '''Bronze'''
|}

=== World Junior Championships ===
''Girls' doubles''
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year
! Venue
! Partner
! Opponent
! Score
! Result
|- style="background:#98FB98"
| align="center" | [[1994 IBF World Junior Championships|1994]]
| align="left" | [[Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium]], [[Kuala Lumpur]], Malaysia
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Liu Lu (badminton)|Liu Lu]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Qiang Hong]]<br />{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Li (badminton)|Wang Li]]
| align="left" | 17–16, 7–15, 15–7
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 1.png|Gold]] '''Gold'''
|}

''Mixed doubles''
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year
! Venue
! Partner
! Opponent
! Score
! Result
|- style="background:#98FB98"
| align="center" | [[1994 IBF World Junior Championships|1994]]
| align="left" | [[Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium]], [[Kuala Lumpur]], Malaysia
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Yang Bing]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhang Wei (badminton, born 1977)|Zhang Wei]]<br />{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Qiang Hong]]
| align="left" | 8–15, 6–15
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | [[File:Med 2.png|Silver]] '''Silver'''
|}

=== BWF Grand Prix ===
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the [[BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold|Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold]]. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the [[Badminton World Federation]] (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.

''Women's singles''
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year
! Tournament
! Opponent
! Score
! Result
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 1995
| align="left" | [[Brunei Open (badminton)|Brunei Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zeng Yaqiong]]
| align="left" | 11–5, 12–10
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 1996
| align="left" | [[German Open (badminton)|German Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Margit Borg]]
| align="left" | 11–1, 11–0
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 1998
| align="left" | [[Dutch Open (badminton)|Dutch Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhou Mi (badminton)|Zhou Mi]]
| align="left" | 13–10, 11–13, 4–11
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2001
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|NED}} [[Mia Audina]]
| align="left" | 5–7, 7–1, 5–7, 5–7
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2002
| align="left" | German Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Pi Hongyan]]
| align="left" | 11–4, 9–11, 7–11
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2003
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Dai Yun]]
| align="left" | 13–10, 3–0 Retired
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2004
| align="left" | [[Thailand Open (badminton)|Thailand Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Jun Jae-youn]]
| align="left" | 11–8, 2–11, 11–6
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2004
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|FRA}} Pi Hongyan
| align="left" | 5–11, 4–11
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2004
| align="left" | [[Denmark Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Xie Xingfang]]
| align="left" | 9–11, 11–8, 7–11
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2005
| align="left" | Thailand Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} [[Xu Huaiwen]]
| align="left" | 11–6, 11–7
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2005
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Xu Huaiwen
| align="left" | 7–11, 2–11
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2006
| align="left" | [[China Open (badminton)|China Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhang Ning]]
| align="left" | 14–21, 5–21
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2008
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Linda Zetchiri]]
| align="left" | 21–14, 21–13
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2009
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|NED}} [[Judith Meulendijks]]
| align="left" | 21–11, 21–12
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2010
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} [[Juliane Schenk]]
| align="left" | 13–21, 21–14, 15–21
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#D4F1C5"
| align="center" | 2011
| align="left" | Dutch Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|IND}} [[P. V. Sindhu]]
| align="left" | 21–16, 21–17
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#FFFF67"
| align="center" | 2011
| align="left" | [[Bitburger Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Li Xuerui]]
| align="left" | 8–21, 9–21
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|- style="background:#FFFF67"
| align="center" | 2012
| align="left" | Bitburger Open
| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Juliane Schenk
| align="left" | 10–21, 21–15, 23–25
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{silver2}} '''Runner-up'''
|}
: {{Color box|#FFFF67|border=darkgray}} [[BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix|BWF Grand Prix Gold]] tournament
: {{Color box|#D4F1C5|border=darkgray}} [[BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix|IBF/BWF Grand Prix]] tournament

=== BWF International Challenge/Series ===
''Women's singles''
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Year
! Tournament
! Opponent
! Score
! Result
|- style="background:#D5D5D5"
| align="center" | 2001
| align="left" | [[Dutch International]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|NED}} [[Mia Audina]]
| align="left" | 9–11, 11–1, 13–10
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D8CEF6"
| align="center" | 2009
| align="left" | [[Belgian International]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Misaki Matsutomo]]
| align="left" | 21–14, 14–21, 21–16
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D8CEF6"
| align="center" | 2011
| align="left" | [[Italian International]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]]
| align="left" | 21–11, 21–17
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D8CEF6"
| align="center" | 2012
| align="left" | [[Finnish Open (badminton)|Finnish Open]]
| align="left" | {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Michelle Li]]
| align="left" | 22–20, 21–19
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|- style="background:#D8CEF6"
| align="center" | 2012
| align="left" | Dutch International
| align="left" | {{flagicon|MAS}} [[Soniia Cheah]]
| align="left" | 19–21, 21–9, 21–12
| style="text-align:left; background:white" | {{gold1}} '''Winner'''
|}
: {{Color box|#D8CEF6|border=darkgray}} [[BWF International Challenge]] tournament
: {{Color box|#D5D5D5|border=darkgray}} IBF International tournament

== Record Against Selected Opponents ==
Includes results from all competitions against Super Series finalists, World Championship semifinalists, Olympic quarterfinalists, and all Olympic opponents.<ref>http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/profile/selectheadtohead.aspx?id=15EC2421-543A-4E50-B70C-04C4955053AE {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>

{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
* {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Petya Nedelcheva]] 7–4
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Gong Ruina]] 0–2
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Gong Zhichao]] 0–1
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Jiang Yanjiao]] 0–10
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Li Xuerui]] 0–2
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Liu Xin (badminton)|Liu Xin]] 1–0
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Lu Lan]] 1–3
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Lin (badminton)|Wang Lin]] 0–2
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Shixian]] 0–3
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Xin (badminton)|Wang Xin]] 0–2
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Yihan]] 1–3
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Xie Xingfang]] 2–4
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Ye Zhaoying]] 0–1
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhang Ning]] 3–8
* {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Zhu Lin (badminton)|Zhu Lin]] 1–2
* {{flagicon|TPE}} [[Cheng Shao-chieh]] 1–2
* {{flagicon|TPE}} [[Tai Tzu-ying]] 1–1
* {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Tine Baun]] 5–3
* {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Camilla Martin]] 1–4
* {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Tracey Hallam]] 3–0
* {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Pi Hongyan]] 3–12
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Juliane Schenk]] 2–4
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Xu Huaiwen]] 3–6
* {{flagicon|HKG}} [[Wang Chen (badminton)|Wang Chen]] 0–1
* {{flagicon|HKG}} [[Yip Pui Yin]] 3–6
* {{flagicon|HKG}} [[Zhou Mi (badminton)|Zhou Mi]] 0–7
* {{flagicon|ISL}} [[Ragna Ingólfsdóttir]] 1–0
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Saina Nehwal]] 2–4
* {{flagicon|INA}} [[Maria Kristin Yulianti]] 0–2
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Eriko Hirose]] 2–4
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Sayaka Sato]] 1–0
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Shizuka Uchida]] 2–0
* {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Bae Youn-joo]] 1–4
* {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Sung Ji-hyun]] 1–4
* {{flagicon|LTU}} [[Akvilė Stapušaitytė]] 1–0
* {{flagicon|NED}} [[Mia Audina]] 2–2
* {{flagicon|MAS}} [[Wong Mew Choo]] 2–0
* {{flagicon|SIN}} [[Jiang Yanmei]] 1–0
* {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Carolina Marín]] 1–1
* {{flagicon|THA}} [[Porntip Buranaprasertsuk]] 0–1
* {{flagicon|THA}} [[Ratchanok Intanon]] 0–3
{{div col end}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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