1. Deng Linlin was a member of the Chinese team that won the team gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, People's Republic of China, and is a three-time World Cup gold medalist.
21 Facts About Deng Linlin
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Deng Linlin is the 2009 World and 2012 Olympic champion on balance beam.
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Deng Linlin began her gymnastics career in Fuyang, Anhui, at the Anhui Fuyang Sports School and later attended the Anhui Provincial Sports School.
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Deng Linlin was selected to the Chinese national team in 2004.
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Deng Linlin made her international competitive debut in 2008, when she competed in several events on the World Cup circuit.
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At the World Cup in Moscow, Deng Linlin won gold medals on both beam and floor.
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At the 2008 Chinese National Championships, Deng Linlin finished in third place in the all-around, behind Jiang Yuyuan and Yang Yilin and placed third on vault.
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Deng Linlin was a member of the Chinese team at the 2008 Olympic Games and participated in the preliminary and team final rounds of competition.
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Deng Linlin performed solidly on three events in the team final, sticking a double twisting Yurchenko vault and receiving a 15.250.
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Deng Linlin performed on balance beam and floor exercise, scoring 15.925 a 15.150, respectively.
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Deng Linlin was one of two Chinese gymnasts who performed on three apparatuses in the team final, the other being Cheng Fei.
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In 2009, after a seven-month-long knee recovery, Deng Linlin started to prepare for the 11th Chinese National Games held in September.
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Deng Linlin became the fourth beam world champion of Chinese team, after Mo Huilan, Ling Jie and Fan Ye.
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Deng Linlin struggled with her sciatic injury throughout 2010, which forced her to only compete on vault and beam.
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Deng Linlin was chosen to compete in the 2010 Asian Games, where she won a gold with the team and an individual silver on the balance beam behind her teammate, Sui Lu.
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In 2011, Deng Linlin did not make the team for the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo due to injury.
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In 2012, despite injuries, Deng Linlin regained the ability to vault a double twisting Yurchenko which was urgently needed for the Chinese team.
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Deng Linlin was the captain of the Chinese team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Deng Linlin helped qualify the team in third place, as well as to the all-around in fifth and the balance beam final in fourth.
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Deng Linlin posted the highest marks for both the difficult score and execution score in the final, which was the highest beam score in the entire Olympics.
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Deng Linlin's score was one tenth higher than that of her teammate Sui Lu, who was the reigning world champion at that time and had posted the top score in the qualifying round.