[3] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay.

[5] Yang Junxuan won gold in all seven swimming events she competed in at the 2019 Wuhan Military World Games.

[6] 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.

Yang, who was in the starting leg, set a new Chinese national record in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 52.48.

[9] 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.