Liu Xuan (gymnast)
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Country represented | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Changsha, Hunan | March 12, 1979||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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- This article is about the contemporary Chinese gymnast. For the Han Dynasty emperor, see Emperor Gengshi of Han.
Template:Chinese name Liu Xuan (simplified Chinese: 刘璇; traditional Chinese: 劉璇; pinyin: Liú Xuán; born March 12, 1979 in Changsha, Hunan) is a Chinese Gymnast. She was coached by Guo Xinming and Zhang Zhen.
Liu said she took up gymnastics with encouragement from her mom, who had to cease gymnastics training during her younger years because of the closure of the gym during the Cultural Revolution. In fact, Liu's decision to continue for another 4 years after a disappointing 1996 Atlanta Olympics (where she failed to make beam finals due to a fall in the team optionals) was partly to realize her mom's unfulfilled dream.
Liu was the first female gymnast to perform a one-arm giant swing on the uneven bars which is named after her in the Gymnastic's Code of Points; she also performed this skill into a Geinger release move. However, this skill was considered too risky for women gymnasts, and hence was given a ridiculously low "C" difficulty rating so as to discourage female gymnasts from learning it. As a result, Liu herself also stopped performing it after the 1996 Olympics.
Liu was also strong on balance beam, but weak on vault and floor exercise.
In 2000, she was China's first Olympic Champion on balance beam as well as China's first All Around Medalist (after Andreea Răducan was disqualified from her gold medal due to a disqualification for taking an unlicensed cold medication, Liu moved up from 4th to the bronze medal position). At the 2000 Olympics Liu Xuan also led her team to a bronze medal, but the medal was stripped by the IOC in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members was found to be underage during the competition. This was China's first and only team medal for Women's Artistic Gymnastics in a non-boycotted Olympics, until 2008. Liu Xuan retired after the 2000 Olympics. As of June 2005 she was filming a movie.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Liu served as the on-site gymnastics reporter for Hong Kong broadcaster TVB.
In the July 2009, she became one of the management contract actress for TVB.
Results
- 2000 Olympics: 3rd Team*DISQUALIFIED,[1] 3rd All Around, 1st Balance Beam
- 1999 World Championships: 3rd Team
- 1998 Asian Games: 1st team, 1st all-around, 1st beam
- 1998 World Cup: 1st beam, 3rd bars
- 1997 World Championships: 3rd team, 7th all-around
- 1996 Olympics: 4th team
- 1996 World Championships: 3rd beam, 9th bars
- 1995 World Championships: 2nd team
- 1995 USA/CHN/BLR: 3rd team, 8th all-around
- 1994 DTB Cup: 1st beam, 5th bars, 8th floor
- 1994 Asian Games: 1st team, 2nd bars
- 1994 Team World Championships: 4th
Discography
Year | Album Cover | Album information |
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2008 | Sweet on the Heart[2] 甜上心頭 | |
2009 | Ready...Go![3] 出發 2.I Wish for You | |
2011 | Return Sight[4] 回見 | |
18 February 2011 | File:Beautiful Faces.jpg Beautiful Faces |
01. Roman Sunshine 羅馬陽光 02. You are the only one I loved[5] 愛上你就是唯一 03. Past Events Editing[6] 往事剪接手 0. Cry for You 05. Waves from Heart 心浪 06. 麻 07.Beautiful Faces 美麗的樣子 08.Prove 証明 09.Uncatchable Love 抓不住的愛情 10. Happy Day |
Filmography
Feature Films
Year | Title | Role | Co-stars |
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2002 | Far From Home | Xi mei | Xu Jinglei, Daniel Chan, Cui Lin |
TV series
Year | Title | Network | Role |
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2002 | My Father and I | Mainland | Gao Wenjun |
2003 | Ultimate Target | Mainland | Liu Jingyi |
2004 | Phantom Lover | Mainland | Tian Fei |
2011 | Grace Under Fire | TVB | Mok Kwai-lan |
TV Shows
Year | Title | Network | Role |
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2005 | Light Blue, Dark Blue | Mainland | Guest |
2006 | Wulin Dahui | Mainland | Guest |
2007 | Mingsheng Dazhen | Mainland | Guest |
2010 | Go! EXPO | TVB | Co-host; 10 episodes |
External links
- Liu Xuan at the International Gymnastics Federation
- List of competitive results at Gymn Forum
- Shanfan: Liu Xuan Videos
- ShanFan: Liu Bio
- Liu Xuan's TVB Blog
<references>
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/04/28/olympics.china.stripped.bronze/index.html?hpt=T2
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAkNOrk_KUw&feature=related
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pU6XXQ9ts&feature=related
- ^ http://youtube.com/watch?v=D2Op4PFJFI8
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841SgeIYyGw&playnext=1&list=PL70002158607918F9
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0RXRt08qo0
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Chinese female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for China
- Olympic gold medalists for China
- Olympic gymnasts of China
- People from Changsha
- People with acquired residency of Hong Kong
- Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships
- TVB actors