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Chen Yibing Personal information Full name Chen Yibing Country represented China Born December 19, 1984
Tianjin, ChinaDiscipline Men's artistic gymnastics Level Senior Club China National School Medal recordOlympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing Team Gold 2008 Beijing Rings World Championships Gold 2006 Aarhus Team Gold 2006 Aarhus Rings Gold 2007 Stuttgart Team Gold 2007 Stuttgart Rings Gold 2010 Rotterdam Team Gold 2010 Rotterdam Rings Gold 2011 Tokyo Team Gold 2011 Tokyo Rings Asian Games Gold 2006 Asian Games Team Gold 2006 Asian Games Rings Chen Yibing (simplified Chinese: 陈一冰; traditional Chinese: 陳一冰; pinyin: Chén Yībīng; born 19 December 1984 in Tianjin) is a Chinese gymnast, a four-times world champion on still rings. Chen was part of the Chinese team that won the gold medal in the team event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011 and the Asian Games in 2006 and 2010. Since his international debut at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he was almost unbeatable on his specialist event, still Ring, except to his teammate Yan Mingyong in 2009. He became the 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 world champion on the still rings.
He was also a member of the 2008 Beijing Olympics team and won gold for China in men's team gymnastics as well as gold on the Rings. His still rings performance was described as 'perfect' and 'textbook-worthy', highly acclaimed for its precision and high level of difficulty.
He is a student in Beijing Normal University now.
He is now the captain of the Chinese gymnastics Men's team.
References
- Kubatko, Justin. "Chen Yibing Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/chen-yibing-1.html. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
External links
Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Rings 1896: Ioannis Mitropoulos | 1900: not included | 1904: Herman Glass | 1908 - 1920: not included | 1924: Francesco Martino | 1928: Leon Štukelj | 1932: George Gulack | 1936: Alois Hudec | 1948: Karl Frei | 1952: Grant Shaginyan | 1956: Albert Azaryan | 1960: Albert Azaryan | 1964: Takuji Hayata | 1968: Akinori Nakayama | 1972: Akinori Nakayama | 1976: Nikolai Andrianov | 1980: Alexander Dityatin | 1984: Koji Gushiken / Li Ning | 1988: Holger Behrendt / Dmitry Bilozerchev | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Jury Chechi | 2000: Szilveszter Csollány | 2004: Dimosthenis Tampakos | 2008: Chen Yibing
Categories:- 1984 births
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- Chinese male artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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- Olympic gold medalists for China
- Olympic gymnasts of China
- People from Tianjin
- World champion gymnasts
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
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