Deng Linlin
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Full name | Deng Linlin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lixin, Anhui, China | April 21, 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Fuyang, Anhui, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Beijing, China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 146 cm (4 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 31 kg (68 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Xiong Jingbin [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assistant coach(es) | Zhang Xia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music | Colette Shows Him Le Ropes (2008) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | September 6, 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Deng Linlin (
Gymnastics career
Deng Linlin began her gymnastics career in
2008
Deng made her international competitive debut in 2008, when she competed in several events on the World Cup circuit. At the World Cup meet in
At the 2008 Chinese National Championships, Deng finished in third place in the all-around, behind Jiang Yuyuan and Yang Yilin[5] and also placed third on vault.[6]
2008 Olympics
Deng was a member of the Chinese team at the 2008 Olympic Games and participated in the preliminary and team final rounds of competition. In the preliminary team competition, Deng performed on all four apparatuses. She was ranked ninth overall after the preliminary round; however, Deng did not advance to the individual all-around final because no more than two gymnasts may represent each country in the all-around competition.[7]
For the team final, Chinese coaches decided to replace Jiang with Deng on
Deng and Jiang, along with and national teammate Nai Ruoyu, were featured in a documentary about the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics titled 筑梦 2008 (pinyin: Zhù Mèng; released internationally as Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008 [10]) which premiered at the China Film Archive in July 2008.[11][12]
2008 age debate
2009
In 2009, after a seven-month-long knee recovery, Deng started to prepare for the 11th Chinese National Games held in September. During the competition, she surprisingly won the gold in the all-around final from the second group (7th in qualification) of the 24 finalists. After posting three solid routine on bars, beam and floor, she took a shot on vault by attempting the double twisting
Later the same month, she became the world champion on balance beam in London. During the beam event final, she obtained the highest values in both D and E scores with 6.4 and 8.6, respectively. She became the fourth beam world champion of Chinese team, after Mo Huilan, Ling Jie and Fan Ye. In addition, she finished seventh on the floor exercise and eleventh in the all-around competition, after an uncharacteristic fall on her own strong event, balance beam.
2010
Deng struggled with her sciatic injury throughout 2010, which forced her to only compete on vault and beam. Even so, she continued her international success in 2010, garnering a team bronze medal at the
2011
In 2011, Deng did not make the team for the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo due to injury. In November, she won an all-round title in the Chinese Winner Champions held in Hong Kong over her younger teammates. During this competition, she performed a 1.1 valued series of back flip + back flip + layout full (G level) + Korbut flip, which included a 0.4 connective bonus value; under AB/DE COPS, this is the highest value generated by one move on beam.
2012
In 2012, despite injuries, Deng regained the ability to vault a double twisting
2012 Olympics
Deng was the captain of the Chinese team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She helped qualify the team in third place, as well as to the all-around in fifth and the balance beam final in fourth. The Chinese team did not perform well in the team final, counting multiple major mistakes (including a fall by Deng off the balance beam) and finished in a disappointing fourth, completely off the podium. After finishing sixth in the individual all-around final, Deng rebounded and won the women's beam gold medal with a score of 15.600. She posted the highest marks for both the difficult score (6.6) and execution score (9.0) in the final, which was also the highest beam score in the entire Olympics. Her 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 (15.400) in the qualifying round. This is the second Olympic gymnastics gold medal of her career and the second Olympic balance beam gold medal for China.[13]
Competitive history
Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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2012 | Olympic Games | London | Team | 4 | 174.430 | 3 | 176.637 |
Individual All-Around | 6 | 58.399 | 6 | 57.998 | |||
Balance Beam | 1 | 15.600 | 4 | 15.166 | |||
2010 | World Championships | Rotterdam | Team | 3 | 174.781 | 2 | 233.778 |
Balance Beam | 2 | 15.233 | 4 | 15.100 | |||
2009 | World Championships | London | All-Around | 11 | 55.250 | 4 | 56.350 |
Balance Beam | 1 | 15.000 | 3 | 14.450 | |||
Floor | 7 | 13.825 | 7 | 14.000 | |||
2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing | Team | 1 | 188.900 | 1 | 248.275 |
Floor Music
- 2007 "Rise" by Safri Duo
- 2008 "Colette shows him the ropes" from "Ratatouille" soundtrack
See also
- Age controversies in gymnastics
- Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
- Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around
References
- ^ a b "Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Chinese Sports Delegation Roster". Archived from the original on 2009-09-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
- ^ ""鄧琳琳:缺席存在的奧運冠軍"". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ^ "China all the way, swept with five gold medals in Doha Artistic World Cup Series A" Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine Qatar Gymnastics Federation, March 6, 2008
- ^ "Russians Shine Bright in Moscow" Archived 2012-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Amanda Turner, International Gymnast, May 30, 2008
- ^ "Yang, Jiang win Chinese titles" Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine Amanda Turner, International Gymnast, May 7, 2008
- ^ "Chinese Championships end" Archived 2012-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Lisa Wang, International Gymnast, May 12, 2008
- ^ "Despite Unexpected Slip, Chinese Women Are in Control" Juliet Macur, New York Times, August 10, 2008
- ^ "我的奥林匹克---邓琳琳 Deng linlin". YouTube.
- ^ "Team final scores". NBC Olympics. 2008-08-12. Archived from the original on 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
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- ^ "Dream Weaver". CriEnglish.com. July 9, 2008. Archived from the original on August 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
- ^ "Living the dream". China Daily. June 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ "Olympics gymnastics: Deng Linlin wins women's beam gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 July 2012.