Lu Li
Lu Li | ||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname(s) | Li Li | |||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
Assistant coach(es) | Black Hills Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1993 | |||||||||||||||||
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Lu Li (Chinese: 陆莉; pinyin: Lù Lì; born August 30, 1976) is a Chinese gymnast.
Lu made the Chinese national team in late 1991. However, liver illness almost prevented her from competing in the
Lu is best known for her gold medal on the uneven bars in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She won this with a perfect 10, which she achieved the same night as Lavinia Miloșovici also scored a perfect 10. Lu Li and Lavinia Miloșovici remain the last two people to score perfect 10s in Olympic competition to date. Lu Li also won a silver on the beam in the same games (tied with American Shannon Miller with a score of 9.912). This makes Lu Li China's second most successful female Olympic gymnast after Liu Xuan. Lu had troubles on her beam performance in the all-round competition, and placed a disappointing 34th.
Lu competed in the 1993 Chinese National Games and won the uneven bars title (tied with Luo Li, who would go on to win the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane). She retired shortly thereafter.
In 2000, Lu Li moved to
References
- ^ Chinese Olympic gold medalist named new coach at Emerald City Gymnastics Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Redmond Reporter.
- ^ https://lujuba.cc/en/603264.html.
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