Pang Panpan was a member of the 2006 World Champion Chinese team.
12 Facts About Pang Panpan
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Pang Panpan competed in multiple World Cup events in the past, but her best overall performance up until that point was at the 2006 Foshan Chinese National Championships where she won the all-around and floor exercise titles.
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On July 16,2006, in Shanghai, China, Pang Panpan won the gold in the beam.
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At the 2006 World Championships, Pang Panpan was a member of the Chinese team.
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Pang Panpan fell on both the beam and the floor in preliminaries but did well on both of these events in team finals.
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Pang Panpan was called up for bars, on which she did exceptionally well, at the last minute when Li Ya messed up her routine in the warm-up session.
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Pang Panpan went on to compete in the all-around where she finished 12th in preliminaries.
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Pang Panpan was in the top three after the first rotation; but in the second rotation, she fell on her Yang Bo.
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Pang Panpan continued onto floor exercise where she earned a 15.425; which put her into first place going into the last rotation.
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Pang Panpan performed a double-twisting Yurchenko, but landed low, took a step, and placed her hands on the mat, and got a 0.8 deduction.
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Pang Panpan scored 14.025 and ended up in 6th place.
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Pang Panpan is capable of the very difficult tucked barani.