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Name
Yang Liwei
(杨力维)

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Born
1995 (29 years old)

Birth Place

Kunming, Yunnan, China

Position
Point Guard

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

Team Number
37

Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Weight
137 lb (62 kg)

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Sport

Basketball

Team
Los Angeles Sparks

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China Basketball Women

League
WNBA

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Yang Liwei (Chinese: 杨力维; pinyin: Yáng Lìwéi, born 2 January 1995) is a Chinese basketball player for Inner Mongolia women's basketball team and the Chinese national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship.

In February 2023, she joined Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). However, she was waived from the team in May 2023, after playing two matches. In July 2023, she played for China in the women's Asia Cup basketball championship, and won the Asia cup title, after she and her teammates beat Japan in the final, with a score of 73-71. In September 2023, she along with Qin Haiyang, were chosen as the flag bearers representing China in the opening ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. She later competed for China in the women's 5-on-5 basketball tournament, and on 5 October 2023, her team won the gold after beating Japan in the final with a score of 74–72.