20 Facts About Sui Lu

Sui Lu started competing at the senior international level in 2008, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics.

Sui Lu started training gymnastics at the age of 3, and was selected into the Shanghai team in 2000.

In Chinese national level competition, Sui has made many achievements for the Shanghai team.

At the 11th Chinese national games in 2009, Sui Lu led the Shanghai team as their key gymnast.

Sui Lu competed and successfully executed on all 4 apparatus in the team final.

Sui Lu achieved bronze in the all-around, gold on floor and bronze on balance beam, receiving a total of four medals at the 11th national games.

Since 2009, Sui Lu has established herself as a strong Chinese beam and floor specialist and won many national and international titles.

Sui Lu debuted at the senior international level at the 2009 World Championships in London.

Sui Lu placed 8th on balance beam after a fall in qualifications, but could not participate in the final as teammates Deng Linlin and Yang Yilin qualified ahead of her, and only 2 competitors per nation are allowed in finals.

In 2009, Sui Lu won medals in a number of World Cups, including gold for floor at the Cottbus World Cup, gold for beam and floor at the Osijek World Cup, and gold for floor at the Stuttgart World Cup.

At the 2010 World Championships, Sui Lu won a bronze medal with team China and finished 5th in the floor exercise final.

Sui Lu failed to make the beam final after a fall in the preliminary stage.

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, Sui Lu won a total of 4 gold medals, more than any other gymnast and athlete at these games.

At the 2011 World Championships, Sui Lu contributed in the team final on beam and floor, helping the team earn a bronze medal.

Sui Lu won the gold on balance beam after a performance that left her with a margin of more than 0.5 points over the silver medalist, teammate Yao Jinnan.

Sui Lu scored 15.866 during the final, which became the highest scoring beam routine in the entire London Olympic period.

Sui Lu immediately followed it with a strong performance in the floor final, winning the silver medal with a score of 15.066, behind Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva.

Sui Lu revealed in a subsequent interview that she considered retiring after being left off the Olympics Team in 2008, but that these 4 years of hard work had been worth it, and that she was glad she persisted after encouragement from her coaches.

Sui Lu was named to the Chinese women's artistic gymnastics team for the 2012 Olympic Games, where she helped her team to a fourth-place finish in the team final, contributing the highest scores for her team on beam and floor.

Sui Lu retired from gymnastics after the 2013 National Games.