Xiao Qin
Chinese gymnast (born 1985)
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Xiao Qin (simplified Chinese: 肖钦; traditional Chinese: 肖欽; pinyin: Xiào Qīn; born January 12, 1985) is a Chinese gymnast. He won Olympic, world, national, East Asian Games, and World Cup titles in the pommel horse. He joined the China national team in 1999 and is part of the People's Liberation Army.
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| Full name | Xiao Qin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 12, 1985 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Huang Yubin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assistant coach | Jin Weiguo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Competitive highlights
He has qualified for two Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Xiao Qin was one of the favorites for the Olympic title on pommel horse, but he fell during the qualification round. He qualified for the horizontal bar event final, but placed 6th. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, he won gold in the pommel horse along with gold for his team.
| Year | Competition description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-final | Score-final | Rank-qualifying | Score-qualifying |
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| 2001 | World Championships | Ghent | Team | 5 | 165.260 | 7 | 218.296 |
| Pommel horse | 2 | 9.775 | |||||
| 2002 | World Championships | Debrecen | Pommel horse | 2 | 9.750 | 2 | 9.737 |
| 2003 | World Cup/Series | Thessaloniki | Pommel horse | 4 | 9.025 | 4 | 9.100 |
| World Championships | Anaheim | Team | 1 | 171.996 | 3 | 225.119 | |
| Pommel horse | 7 | 9.350 | |||||
| 2004 | World Cup/Series | Ghent | Pommel horse | 1 | 9.925 | ||
| Parallel bars | 7 | 9.325 | |||||
| Horizontal bar | 3 | 9.612 | |||||
| Glasgow | Pommel horse | 1 | 9.900 | ||||
| World Cup/Series Final | Birmingham | Pommel horse | 1 | 9.825 | |||
| Horizontal bar | 8 | 8.200 | |||||
| Olympic Games | Athens | Team | 5 | 171.257 | 4 | 229.507 | |
| Pommel horse | 44 | 9.337 | |||||
| Horizontal bar | 6 | 9.737 | 4 | 9.750 | |||
| 2005 | World Championships | Melbourne | All around | 56 | 28.974 | ||
| Pommel horse | 1 | 9.850 | 1 | 9.800 | |||
| Horizontal bar | 6 | 9.362 | 2 | 9.687 | |||
| Parallel bars | 19 | 9.487 | |||||
| 2006 | World Cup/Series Final | São Paulo | Pommel horse | 1 | 16.100 | ||
| World Cup/Series | Shanghai | Pommel horse | 1 | 16.300 | |||
| Ghent | Pommel horse | 1 | 15.975 | ||||
| World Championships | Aarhus | Team | 1 | 277.775 | 1 | 372.250 | |
| All around | 193 | 61.875 | |||||
| Pommel horse | 1 | 16.025 | 1 | 16.175 | |||
| Horizontal bar | 86 | 14.250 | |||||
| Parallel bars | 11 | 15.675 | |||||
| 2007 | World Cup/Series | Shanghai | Pommel horse | 1 | 15.325 | ||
| Horizontal bar | 3 | 15.475 | |||||
| World Championships | Stuttgart | Team | 1 | 281.900 | 1 | 374.275 | |
| All around | 131 | 77.225 | |||||
| Pommel horse | 1 | 16.300 | 1 | 16.275 | |||
| Horizontal bar | 12 | 15.100 | |||||
| Parallel bars | 14 | 15.875 | |||||
| Floor Exercise | 98 | 14.300 | |||||
| 2008 | World Cup/Series | Tianjin | Pommel horse | 1 | 16.375 | ||
| Olympic Games | Beijing | Team | 1 | 286.125 | 1 | 374.675 | |
| All around | 46 | 76.700 | |||||
| Pommel horse | 1 | 15.875 | 1 | 16.175 | |||
| Horizontal bar | 56 | 14.375 | |||||
| Parallel bars | 18 | 15.150 | |||||
| Floor Exercise | 56 | 14.375 |
References
- Sohu profile (in Chinese)
- 2008 Team China profile Archived 2009-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Xiao Qin.
