Laura Zeng

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Laura Zeng
Zeng near La Fortuna Waterfall in June 2022
Personal information
Full nameLaura Yihan Zeng
Country represented United States
Born (1999-10-14) October 14, 1999 (age 24)
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
HometownLibertyville, Illinois
ResidenceNew Haven, Connecticut
Height5 ft 3 in (160 cm)[1]
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
Years on national team2012-21
ClubNorth Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center
Head coach(es)Natalia Klimouk
Assistant coach(es)Angelina Yovcheva, Dani Takova, Irina Korosteleva
RetiredJanuary 22, 2022
Medal record
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Representing  United States
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto All-around
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Hoop
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Ball
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Ribbon
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Clubs
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lima Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lima All-around
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lima Hoop
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lima Ball
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lima Clubs
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lima Ribbon
Grand Prix Final
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Brno Hoop
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Naples All-around
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Nanjing All-around
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
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Laura Yihan Zeng (Chinese: 曽昳晗; Zeng Yi-Han; born October 14, 1999)[2] is an American former individual rhythmic gymnast. She represented the United States at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She swept all of the events at the 2015 Pan American Games and at the 2018 Pan American Championships. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic and 2019 Summer Universiade all-around bronze medalist and the 2019 Grand Prix Final hoop bronze medalist. She is an eight-time national all-around champion, six times at the senior level (2015-19, 2021) and twice at the junior level (2013-14).

Personal life

Zeng was born in

2020 Olympic Games.[6]

Career

When she was eight years old, Zeng won the all-around gold medal at the 2008 J.O. Compulsory Championships in level 5.[7] The next year, she moved up to level 7 and won the all-around gold medal at the 2009 J.O. Optional Championships.[8] Then at the 2010 J.O. Optional Championships, she finished fourth all-around in level 8.[9] She moved up to the Hopes division in 2011 and won the all-around gold medal at the Visa Championships.[10]

Junior

2012

Zeng began competing as a junior in 2012. She won the all-around silver medal in the junior division of the Rhythmic Challenge held in

Sofia, Bulgaria and won the all-around bronze medal behind Aleksandra Soldatova and Zhena Trashlieva.[14] Then at the USA Gymnastics Rhythmic Championships, she won the all-around silver medal and was named to the United States junior national rhythmic gymnastics team.[15][16]

2013

Zeng began the 2013 season at the Rhythmic Challenge and won the all-around gold medal.

Orlando, she won her first junior national all-around title.[20]

2014

In 2014, Zeng started her season competing at the Rhythmic Challenge winning the all-around and all four event titles.

2014 Youth Olympic Games.[24] She then traveled to Minsk to compete at the Crystal Rose Junior Tournament where she won team gold, ball and ribbon silver, and hoop and clubs bronze.[25] She defended her junior all-around title at the USA Gymnastics Championships,.[26]

Zeng was selected as the sole representative of United States at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.[24][27] She placed second in the qualification round behind Russia's Irina Annenkova with a total score of 57.375.[28] She went on to take the all-around bronze in the finals with a total score of 56.750, just two hundredths behind Belarus’ Mariya Trubach.[29][30] This marked the first rhythmic gymnastics medal for the United States at an Olympic or Youth Olympic Games.[3]

Senior

2015

Zeng began

Jazzy Kerber. In the event finals, she won silver in clubs and bronze in ball and placed fourth in ribbon.[34] She then won her first senior national all-around title at the USA Gymnastics Championships, and she also won the hoop, clubs, and ribbon titles.[35]

At the Pan American Games, Zeng swept the gold medals in the all-around and all the apparatus finals, becoming the second American to win the all-around and all the apparatus finals at the Pan American Games after Mary Sanders in 2003.[36][37][38] Zeng was the most decorated athlete of the Pan American Games.[39] Her next competition was the Kazan World Cup where she finished tenth in the all-around and eighth in the ball final.[40]

Zeng was selected to compete in her first

2016 Olympic Games.[46]

2016

Zeng began her 2016 season at the Rhythmic Challenge where she won the all-around gold medal.

Lisbon World Cup where she finished seventh in the all-around with a total of 70.150 points and qualified for three event finals placing eighth in clubs and hoop and fifth in ball.[48] Next she competed at the Pesaro World Cup where she finished nineteenth in the all-around and seventh in the clubs final.[49] At the Minsk World Cup, she made history by becoming the first American to win a medal in a World Cup series when she won bronze medals in both hoop and ribbon.[50][51] She then won her second consecutive national all-around title and was selected to represent the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[52][53]

Prior to the Olympic Games, Zeng finished eleventh all-around, sixth in hoop, and fifth in clubs and ribbon at the Kazan World Cup.[54] Then at the Baku World Cup, she placed eleventh all-around, fifth in hoop and clubs, and sixth in ribbon.[55] At the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she finished eleventh all-around in the qualifications, narrowly missing the individual all-around final. Zeng's finish tied for the best for an American rhythmic gymnast with Valerie Zimring's eleventh-place finish at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.[56]

2017

Zeng's first competition after the 2016 Olympic Games was the Rhythmic Challenge in

Pesaro World Cup, and she finished fourth in the all-around.[58] She qualified for all four event finals and earned her third and fourth career World Cup bronze medals in hoop and clubs and also finished seventh in ball and ribbon.[59][60] She then participated at the MTM Ljubljana International Tournament and won the all-around gold medal. In event finals, she also took gold in clubs, hoop and ribbon and a bronze medal for ball.[61] She then finished tenth all-around, sixth in ball, and fifth in ribbon at the Guadalajara World Challenge Cup.[62]

Zeng secured her third consecutive senior national all-around title and won the clubs gold medal, the hoop and ribbon silver medals, and the ball bronze medal.

World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.[66][67] She also advanced into three event finals along with teammate Evita Griskenas who advanced into two event finals, marking the first time two American gymnasts qualified for event finals at the World Championships.[68] In the event finals, she placed fifth in clubs and ribbon and sixth in ball.[69][70]

2018

Zeng began the 2018 season at the Rhythmic Challenge and won the all-around gold medal.

Mariia Sergeeva and Belarus's Katsiaryna Halkina.[72] Then in July, she won her fourth consecutive national all-around title marking the first rhythmic gymnast to win four U.S. all-around titles since Sue Soffe in 1979.[73][74] In August, she competed at the BSB Bank World Challenge Cup in Minsk and finished fourteenth in the all-around.[75] The next week she competed at the Kazan World Challenge Cup where she placed fifth in the clubs final and ninth in the all-around.[76] At the World Championships, Zeng, Evita Griskenas, and Camilla Feeley finished seventh in the team event, the highest ever finish for the United States.[77] Individually, she qualified for the all-around final and placed eighth with a total score of 66.950.[78] After the World Championships, she competed at the Pan American Championships and won the all-around gold and team gold with Lili Mizuno and Nastasya Generalova. Zeng also swept the four event gold medals.[79]

On October 18, 2018, Zeng tested positive for

Machupicchu, Peru believing it was ibuprofen. On December 19, she accepted a six-month suspension from USADA beginning on the date of her positive test.[80][81]

2019

Zeng began her 2019 season at the Tashkent World Cup where she placed eighth in the all-around and clubs and sixth in ball.[82] She then won a bronze medal in hoop at the Baku World Cup behind Dina Averina and Linoy Ashram.[83] Then in May, she placed sixth all-around, fourth in hoop, fifth in ball, and eighth in clubs at the Guadalajara World Challenge Cup.[84] She won another hoop bronze medal at the Brno Grand Prix and placed fifth in ribbon and tenth in all-around.[85] She then competed at the USA Gymnastics Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, and won her fifth straight all-around national title and also won hoop, ball, and clubs gold and ribbon bronze.[86] She won the all-around bronze medal at the Summer Universiade behind Ekaterina Selezneva and Zohra Aghamirova, and she also finished fourth in the hoop, ball, and clubs final.[87]

Zeng finished sixth in the all-around at the Portimao World Challenge Cup, and she also finished seventh in the hoop, ball, and clubs finals.[88] At the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, the American team of Zeng, Evita Griskenas, and Camilla Feeley placed seventh.[89] In the ribbon final, she finished fifth, and she finished tenth in the all-around final with a total score of 81.850.[90][91] As a result, Zeng earned one of two spots along with her teammate Evita Griskenas for the United States for the 2020 Summer Olympics, marking the first time the United States qualified two rhythmic gymnasts for the Olympic Games since 1992.[92] At the end of the World Championships, she was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance.[93]

2020-21

Zeng won the all-around gold medal at the 2020 Rhythmic Challenge in Lake Placid, New York.[94] This was her only competition of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She returned to competition in February 2021 at the Rhythmic Challenge and won the all-around silver medal behind Evita Griskenas.[95] Her next competition was the 2021 Sofia World Cup where she finished sixth in hoop, seventh in the all-around, and eighth in ball.[96] Then at the Tashkent World Cup, she finished seventh in hoop and eighth in ball.[97] She finished sixth in hoop and ninth in all-around at the Baku World Cup.[98] Her final World Cup was in Pesaro, and she placed sixth in hoop and seventh all-around and ball.[99]

Zeng won the all-around at the 2021 USA Gymnastics Championships and was selected to represent the

2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she finished thirteenth in the qualification round for the individual all-around and was the third reserve for the final.[102]

Achievements

Retirement

Zeng announced her retirement from rhythmic gymnastics on her Instagram account on January 22, 2022.[103] She is studying urban studies and cognitive science at Yale University and is a staff reporter for the student newspaper, Yale Daily News.[104]

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