1. Jiang Yuyuan is the 2008 Chinese all-around senior National Champion and a member of the gold medal-winning People's Republic of China team for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
23 Facts About Jiang Yuyuan
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Jiang Yuyuan won a silver medal in the all-around competition at the 2010 World Championships, which is the highest position that a Chinese woman has ever placed in the all-around competition at a world or Olympic championship.
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Jiang Yuyuan is a Hakka born in Liuzhou, Guangxi with ancestry from Yunan, Guangdong.
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Jiang Yuyuan's father is a taxi driver and her mother is unemployed with no regular income.
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Jiang Yuyuan's family was under a lot of financial pressure when she was little.
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Jiang Yuyuan has a keen interest in photography, digital gadgets, cars, fashion and cosmetics.
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Jiang Yuyuan is responsible for teaching other female members of the national team about make-up technique.
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Jiang Yuyuan said in one of her interviews that she is sometimes "a little bit of a rebel".
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Jiang Yuyuan's parents took his suggestion and so Jiang was enrolled in gymnastics classes by the time she was four.
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Jiang Yuyuan was once selected by the Guangxi Provincial Team to participate in a three-month training camp but her parents received a call from the Provincial Team asking them to bring Jiang home less than two months after the training began.
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Jiang Yuyuan captured glory in the 2002 Provincial Gymnastics Championships for the Zhejiang Provincial Team by winning the all-around competition and, in so doing, caught the attention of the National Team coaches.
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Jiang Yuyuan joined the National Team 2 in 2004, and was selected from a list of 300 hopefuls of Team 2 to join the National Team 1 in 2006.
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Jiang Yuyuan made her senior international debut in 2007 as a member of the Chinese team that won the silver medal in the team competition at the 2007 World Gymnastics Championships.
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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jiang Yuyuan helped the Chinese team to win the team gold medal at the Olympics.
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Jiang Yuyuan competed at the Olympics with an elbow injury, specifically periosteum inflammation.
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Jiang Yuyuan's coach disclosed that the injury greatly affected her performance at the Olympics, particularly on vault, where pain prevented her from successfully executing her 2.5-twisting Yurchenko, which was crucial for her success in the individual all-around final.
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Jiang Yuyuan won a team gold medal with her teammates, Cheng Fei, He Ning, Zhou Zhuoru and Liu Nanxi.
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In 2010, Jiang Yuyuan was selected to compete for the team of women representing China at the 2010 World Championships.
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Jiang Yuyuan placed 5th on uneven bars, but did not advance into the final due to the 'two per country rule' while her teammates He Kexin and Huang Qiushuang qualified first and second.
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Jiang Yuyuan competed in the Toyota cup winning gold on uneven bars 15.425 and bronze on floor, 14.175 behind Aliya Mustafina and Sui Lu who tied for gold.
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On March 24,2011, Jiang Yuyuan is set to compete in Canada's Wild Rose Cup along with newcomers and juniors Huang Huidan and Shang Chunsong.
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Jiang Yuyuan was selected as an alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Jiang Yuyuan has served as the captain of the Chinese team since 2010.