Editing Sang Yang (section)

== Career ==
Sang started representing China in the junior tournament, and at the [[1998 Asian Junior Badminton Championships|1998]] and [[2000 Asian Junior Badminton Championships|2000 Asian Junior Championships]], he helped the boys' team clinch the gold medal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Asian Juniors:Chinese Depth Sinks Malaysian Boys and Korean Girls |url=http://www.worldbadminton.com/shuttlenws/19980618a.htm |publisher=New Shuttlenws |access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=中国囊括亚洲青年羽毛球锦标赛七项冠军 |url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/others/200007/2858473.shtml |publisher=[[Sina Sports]]|access-date=24 April 2018|language=zh}}</ref> He won the individual medals captured the boys' doubles gold and boys' singles silver in 1999,<ref>{{cite news |title=Asian Junior Championships: China Takes Four Of Five |url=http://www.worldbadminton.com/shuttlenws/19990717a.htm |publisher=New Shuttlenws |access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref> and also boys' doubles gold and mixed doubles silver in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|title=我羽球小將囊括亞青賽桂冠 |url=http://www.people.com.cn/BIG5/paper39/1120/165497.html |publisher=[[People's Daily]]|access-date=24 April 2018 |language=zh}}</ref> At the [[2000 IBF World Junior Championships|2000 World Junior Championships]], he won three gold medals in the boys' doubles, mixed doubles and team event.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chinese Juniors Sweep Badminton Titles |url=http://en.people.cn/english/200011/13/eng20001113_54975.html |publisher=[[People's Daily]]|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>

Sang won the 2003 [[Indonesia Open (badminton)|Indonesia Open]] in the men's doubles with partner [[Zheng Bo]]. In [[2004 Thomas Cup|2004]] they defeated [[Denmark national badminton team|Denmark's]] [[Jens Eriksen]] and [[Martin Lundgaard Hansen|Martin Lundgaard]] in the [[Thomas Cup]] final to clinch the deciding third point for the [[China national badminton team|Chinese team]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sang Yang |url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/badminton/111588.htm |publisher=[[China Internet Information Center]] |access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>

Sang competed for China in [[badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics]] also in men's doubles with Zheng Bo. They had a bye in the first round and defeated [[Chan Chong Ming]] and [[Chew Choon Eng]] of [[Malaysia]] in the second.  In the quarterfinals, Sang and Zheng lost 7–15, 11–15 to [[South Korea|Korea's]] [[Kim Dong-moon]] and [[Ha Tae-kwon]] who went on to win the gold medal.<ref>{{cite news|title=Badminton men's doubles results |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics_2004/badminton/results/3531522.stm |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>

Sang retired on 22 March  2007, because of an injury.<ref>{{cite web |title=羽毛球世界冠军桑洋退役 昔男双蛟龙将执教鞭 |url=http://sports.163.com/07/0323/08/3A8P7FPH00051KVB.html |website=sports.163.com |date=23 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411051704/http://sports.163.com/07/0323/08/3A8P7FPH00051KVB.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 April 2018 |access-date=4 October 2020 |language=zh}}</ref>