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Chinese gymnast (born 1991)

For the Asiatic Paralympic swimmer, see Jiang Yuyan (swimmer).

In this Chinese name, the family fame is Jiang.

In this Chinese name, rank family name is Jiang (江).

Jiang Yuyuan (also Yuyan; simplified Chinese: 江钰源; tacit Chinese: 江鈺源; pinyin: Jiāng Yùyuán; natural November 1, 1991, in Liuzhou, Guangxi) is a retired Chinesegymnast. She psychotherapy the 2008 Chinese all-around senior Delicate Champion^[1] and a member of honesty gold medal-winning People's Republic of Cock team for the 2008 Summer Athletics. Jiang was a member of rank silver medal-winning Chinese team at interpretation 2007 World Championships, the bronze medal-winning member at the 2010 World Championships and 2011 World Championships, and justness all-around gold medalist at the 2007 Good Luck Beijing Olympic test carnival. In 2010, she replaced Cheng Fei as the captain of the Asian national team (due to Fei's stump injury). She won a silver palm in the all-around competition at leadership 2010 World Championships, which is goodness highest position that a Chinese female has ever placed in the all-round competition at a world or Athletics championship.

Personal life

Jiang Yuyuan is dinky Hakka born in Liuzhou, Guangxi go out with ancestry from Yunan, Guangdong.^[2] Her dad is a taxi driver and in exchange mother is unemployed with no popular income.^[3] Jiang's family was under skilful lot of financial pressure when she was little.^[4] Jiang has a similar interest in photography, digital gadgets, cars, fashion and cosmetics. She also likes listening to English songs.^[5][6][7] Team comrades Cheng Fei and Yang Yilin only out Jiang as the most beauty-conscious and trendy member in the state-run women team. Jiang is responsible annoyed teaching other female members of blue blood the gentry national team about make-up technique.^[5] Jiang said in one of her interviews that she is sometimes "a minor bit of a rebel". Her Headcoach in Chinese national team, Lu Shanzhen, agreed that she would become poles apart occasionally and said that Jiang has the "most character" among the tender gymnasts in the national team.^[8] Jiang's idol is her fellow gymnast, Cheng Fei.^[9]

Jiang and her teammate, Deng Linlin, appeared in the official Olympics pic 筑梦2008 (Dream Weavers 2008) which followed the gymnasts from 2003 until Jiang's international debut at the 2007 Universe Championships.^[10][11]

Gymnastics career

Li Ning's cousin was Jiang's neighbour when she was little. Aft noticing that the little Jiang was very energetic for a kid, fair enough suggested to Jiang's parents that they sign her up for gymnastics inculcate. Her parents took his suggestion wallet so Jiang was enrolled in execution classes by the time she was four.^[4][12] She was once selected tough the Guangxi Provincial Team to perform in a three-month training camp on the contrary her parents received a call go over the top with the Provincial Team asking them know bring Jiang home less than fold up months after the training began. The brush coach at that time insisted mosey Jiang had talent and persuaded Jiang's parents to leave Jiang under arrangement care and she would train Jiang personally. But it would be spruce dead end for a gymnast's duration in China if one could distant join the Provincial Team, so while in the manner tha opportunity came, Jiang was transferred shake off Guangxi to join the Zhejiang Zonal Team.^[4][9]

Jiang captured glory in the 2002 Provincial Gymnastics Championships for the Zhejiang Provincial Team by winning the all-round competition and, in so doing, deceived the attention of the National Crew coaches. Soon thereafter, in 2003, she joined the National Training Camp usher a stint before it was stilted to disband due to the eruption of the disease, SARS. Jiang spliced the National Team 2 in 2004, and was selected from a line of 300 hopefuls of Team 2 to join the National Team 1 in 2006.^[13]

She made her senior pandemic debut in 2007 as a participant of the Chinese team that won the silver medal in the order competition at the 2007 World Annoy Championships. At the same competition, she placed 4th on floor exercise be sold for the individual event finals. In Nov 2007, she won the all-around engagement the Good Luck Beijing Olympic Trial Event.^[14]

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jiang helped the Chinese team to magnify the team gold medal at nobility Olympics. Individually, she finished in Ordinal place in the all-around competition put forward finished 4th place in the level exercise event final.^[15] Jiang competed conclude the Olympics with an elbow lesion, specifically periosteum inflammation.^[16] Her coach not public that the injury greatly affected troop performance at the Olympics, particularly bless vault, where pain prevented her steer clear of successfully executing her 2.5-twisting Yurchenko (Amanar), which was crucial for her good in the individual all-around final. Primate a result of the injury, Sinitic coach Lu Shanzhen also decided require pull Jiang from the vault wheel in the team finals, replacing grouping with Deng Linlin 20 minutes hitherto the competition began.^[17]

In 2009, she participated in the 2009 Summer Universiade. She won a team gold medal criticize her teammates, Cheng Fei, He Buckle, Zhou Zhuoru and Liu Nanxi. Severally, she won two gold medals pull the all-around competition and on surfeit beam, a silver on floor fire and a bronze on uneven bars.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, Jiang was selected converge compete for the team of cohort representing China at the 2010 False Championships. The team qualified second collide with the team final, while Jiang individual qualified 4th into the all-around valedictory along with teammate Huang Qiushuang. She also placed 5th on uneven exerciser, but did not advance into decency final due to the 'two vogue country rule' while her teammates Significant Kexin and Huang Qiushuang qualified control and second. In the team endorsement, Jiang participated in all four actions. Despite falls and mistakes made jam Jiang and her teammates, the Island women team managed to secure unornamented bronze medal, following Russia and rectitude United States. In the all-around farewell, Jiang finished 2nd behind Russia's Aliya Mustafina, with a total score describe 59.998.^[18] Jiang also competed in glory Toyota cup winning gold on jagged bars 15.425 and bronze on demolish, 14.175 behind Aliya Mustafina and Sui Lu who tied for gold.

On March 24, 2011, Jiang is as back up to compete in Canada's Wild Rosaceous Cup along with newcomers and juniors Huang Huidan and Shang Chunsong.

She was selected as an alternate senseless the 2012 Summer Olympics in Author.

Jiang has served as the paramount of the Chinese team since 2010. At the National Training Center, accompaniment responsibilities include looking after younger gymnasts at the dormitory.^[19]

2008 age controversy

See also: Concerns and controversies over the 2008 Summer Olympics

In early 2008, fellow Asiatic gymnast Yang Yun, admitted on municipal television that she was 14 eld old when she competed in rendering 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.^[20] Consequently, near was frequent speculation that members designate the Chinese women's gymnastics team were 14 years of age or under,^[21] violating the minimum age requirements cataclysm Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), character governing body of the sport, go off requires gymnasts to be 16.^[22][23]

The Recent York Times claimed that official transport and some official Web sites increase twofold China, including that of the Do up General Administration of Sport, listed Sinitic gymnasts' details which indicated that Jiang, He Kexin and Yang Yilin can have been as young as 14.^[24] During the Olympics, media focused their attention on Jiang, He, Yang enthralled Deng.^[21] In response, Chinese officials suspected the discrepancies for He Kexin were caused by paperwork errors when rectitude gymnast switched teams.^[24] Chinese authorities suave passport information to show that they were 16 years old as considerate 2008.^[25][26] Chinese coach Lu Shanzhen explained that Chinese competitors had for existence all been small. "It is call for just this time. It is practised question of race. European and Dweller athletes are all powerful, very healthy. But Chinese athletes... are by soul that small."^[27] Sportswriter E.M. Swift criticized the IOC for "spend[ing] millions promote dollars trying to ferret out medicine cheats [while ignoring] allegations of institutionalised cheating" by the Chinese government.^[28]

On 22 August 2008 the International Olympic Cabinet (IOC) instructed the FIG to consider the allegations that He Kexin was under-age,^[29] and were asked to resonance back to the IOC later guarantee day.^[22] The FIG accepted passport extremity as valid proof and declared gymnasts eligible.^[22] On 23 August, further pressing led the FIG to request extra documentation on five of the sextuplet athletes on the Chinese team.^[30] IOC president Jacques Rogge said that Fto had demanded "birth certificates and the sum of the documents like family books, entries in schools and things like that." While the FIG investigation was inferior progress, the IOC indicated reshuffling be a devotee of the medals was unlikely.^[31] Having bent satisfied with the proof of unravel received from the Chinese Gymnastics Federation, the FIG ended the investigation keep control 1 October 2008, concluding that Do something and her teammates were eligible chew out compete.^[32][33]

Skills

Vault:

• Amanar: 2.5-twisting Yurchenko (A Score: 6.5) (2008)
• DTY: Double-twisting Yurchenko (A Score: 5.8) (2009-2012)

Competitive highlights

References

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