Lee Yang (Chinese: 李洋; pinyin: Lǐ Yáng; born 12 August 1995) is a retired Taiwanese professional badminton player.
[5] In 2018, he competed at the Asian Games and won bronze medals in the men's doubles and team events.
[8][9][10] In 2021, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he partnered with Wang Chi-lin to defeat the 2018 World Champion pairing of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen in the final.
[11] In 2024, at the 2024 Paris Olympics, he and his partner Wang Chi-lin repeated the feat to win in the men's doubles finals as an unseeded pair, making history to become the first men's doubles pair in history to defend their Olympic title.
[12][13] Lai Ching-te, the current President of Taiwan, congratulated Lee and Wang on their victory by referring to the pair as "the country's glory".
[14] After appearing in the 2024 Taipei Open, Lee retired from professional badminton to become a lecturer at the National Taiwan Sport University.