Pang Panpan
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Pang Panpan (born 7 June 1988 in Shijiazhuang
, Hebei
) is a Chinese
gymnast
. She was a member of the 2006 World Champion Chinese team. Nicknamed "Oriental Beauty", she is known for her exceptional elegance and style in performance.
Pang has competed at multiple World Cup events in the past, but her best overall performance up until that point was at the 2006 Foshan Chinese National Championships where she won the all-around and floor exercise titles. This victory would earn her a spot to compete at the World Championships later that year, but her spot depended on her performance at the Xiantao Nationals in autumn.
Though her performance at the Xiantao Nationals was not as good at the first nationals, she was chosen for the World team.
At the 2006 Shanghai World Cup, she won the title on the beam with a score of 15.600 and on floor exercises with a score of 15.300.
On July 16, 2006, in Shanghai
, China, Pang won the gold in the beam.
At the 2006 World Championships, Pang was a member of the Chinese team. Pang fell on both the beam and the floor in preliminaries but did well on both of these events in team finals. Pang was also called up for bars, on which she did exceptionally well, in last minute when Li Ya
messed up her rountine in the warm-up session. She and her teammates Zhang Nan, Li Ya
, Cheng Fei
, Zhou Zhuoru
, He Ning
, and alternate Huang Lu
made history as they became the first Chinese women's team to win a gold medal in the team event.
Pang went on to compete in the all-around where she finished 12th in preliminaries. She was in the top three after the first rotation; but in the second rotation, she fell on her Yang Bo (a split jump with a back arch). She continued onto floor exercise where she earned a 15.425; which put her into first place going into the last rotation. She performed a double-twisting Yurchenko
, but landed low, took a step, and placed her hands on the mat, and got a 0.8 deduction. She scored 14.025 and ended up in 6th place.
Bars was her weakest event overall but due to injury she was only trained consistently on this event during the run up to the selection of 2008 Beijing Olympics. By that time, He Kexin and Yang Yilin were making their presence known, and Pang’s bars weren’t enough.
. On the balance beam, she performs split jumps that arch more than the 180 degree requirement. She is also capable of the very difficult tucked barani (front somersault with a half turn). On Uneven Bars, she has made some improvement with her lines and execution, being careful not to bend her arms on swings. On this apparatus, she does a transition from the high bar to the low bar called the Ezhova] (named after a Russian gymnast) that is basically a layout barani. On vault
, she is capable of performing the double-twisting yurchenko
that has a 5.8 A-score in the 2006 Code of Points.
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about south of Beijing...
, Hebei
Hebei
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) is a Chinese
China
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gymnast
Gymnast
Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics, trampolining, or rhythmic gymnastics.See gymnasium for the origin of the word gymnast from gymnastikos.-Female artistic:Australia...
. She was a member of the 2006 World Champion Chinese team. Nicknamed "Oriental Beauty", she is known for her exceptional elegance and style in performance.
Career
Pang was selected for and started gymnastic training in 1997 when she was in primary school and so she entered the Shijiazhuang Amateur Sports School. In January 2001, she was selected by Huang Jian, the leader of the Hebei Gymnastics Team, to be a part of the team. After four months of joining the team, she took part in the Li Ning's Cup, a National Children's Gymnastics Competition in May 2001. Towards the end of the year 2002, she was selected for the National Gymnastics Team. She reported for training on January 1, 2003.Pang has competed at multiple World Cup events in the past, but her best overall performance up until that point was at the 2006 Foshan Chinese National Championships where she won the all-around and floor exercise titles. This victory would earn her a spot to compete at the World Championships later that year, but her spot depended on her performance at the Xiantao Nationals in autumn.
Though her performance at the Xiantao Nationals was not as good at the first nationals, she was chosen for the World team.
At the 2006 Shanghai World Cup, she won the title on the beam with a score of 15.600 and on floor exercises with a score of 15.300.
On July 16, 2006, in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, China, Pang won the gold in the beam.
At the 2006 World Championships, Pang was a member of the Chinese team. Pang fell on both the beam and the floor in preliminaries but did well on both of these events in team finals. Pang was also called up for bars, on which she did exceptionally well, in last minute when Li Ya
Li Ya
Li Ya is a former Chinese gymnast. She was a member of the Chinese team that won the team competition at the 2006 World Championships and was a member of the 2004 Olympic Team...
messed up her rountine in the warm-up session. She and her teammates Zhang Nan, Li Ya
Li Ya
Li Ya is a former Chinese gymnast. She was a member of the Chinese team that won the team competition at the 2006 World Championships and was a member of the 2004 Olympic Team...
, Cheng Fei
Cheng Fei
Cheng Fei is a Chinese gymnast. She is a three-time World Champion on the vault and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China...
, Zhou Zhuoru
Zhou Zhuoru
Zhou Zhuoru born September 14, 1988 is a World Champion Chinese Gymnast from Fushun, Liaoning, Peoples Republic of China.Zhou Zhuoru was named alternate for the 2004 Chinese Olympic team. Following steady improvement and development, she was named to the Chinese team to compete at the 2006 World...
, He Ning
He Ning
He Ning is a Chinese gymnast born in the province of Zhejiang.-Competitive history:She is known from the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. She won 2 gold medals in Team and All-Around competitions...
, and alternate Huang Lu
Huang Lu
Huang Lu is a Chinese actress. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, Huang debuted in director Li Yang's Blind Mountain, where she played a young college student sold into sexual slavery in a mountain village in central China....
made history as they became the first Chinese women's team to win a gold medal in the team event.
Pang went on to compete in the all-around where she finished 12th in preliminaries. She was in the top three after the first rotation; but in the second rotation, she fell on her Yang Bo (a split jump with a back arch). She continued onto floor exercise where she earned a 15.425; which put her into first place going into the last rotation. She performed a double-twisting Yurchenko
Yurchenko (vault)
Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, who originated the vault in the early 1980s....
, but landed low, took a step, and placed her hands on the mat, and got a 0.8 deduction. She scored 14.025 and ended up in 6th place.
Bars was her weakest event overall but due to injury she was only trained consistently on this event during the run up to the selection of 2008 Beijing Olympics. By that time, He Kexin and Yang Yilin were making their presence known, and Pang’s bars weren’t enough.
Gymnastics skills
On floor exercise, she shows off her twisting capabilities and choreographyChoreography
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
. On the balance beam, she performs split jumps that arch more than the 180 degree requirement. She is also capable of the very difficult tucked barani (front somersault with a half turn). On Uneven Bars, she has made some improvement with her lines and execution, being careful not to bend her arms on swings. On this apparatus, she does a transition from the high bar to the low bar called the Ezhova] (named after a Russian gymnast) that is basically a layout barani. On vault
Vault (gymnastics)
The vault is an artistic gymnastics apparatus, as well as the skill performed using that apparatus. Vaulting is also the action of performing a vault. Both male and female gymnasts perform the vault...
, she is capable of performing the double-twisting yurchenko
Yurchenko (vault)
Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, who originated the vault in the early 1980s....
that has a 5.8 A-score in the 2006 Code of Points.
2008 season
| Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | World Cup/Series | Moscow | Uneven Bar | 2 | 15.400 | 1 | 15.925 |
2007 season
| Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | World Cup/Series | SHANGHAI | Balance Beam | 2 | 15.700 | ||
| Floor Exercise | 2 | 15.050 | |||||
2006 season
| Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | World Championships | Aarhus | All Around | 6 | 59.675 | 12 | 58.775 |
| Balance Beam | 11 | 15.300 | |||||
| Floor Exercise | 30 | 14.325 | |||||
| Team | 1 | 182.200 | 2 | 239.525 | |||
| Uneven Bar | 13 | 15.125 | |||||
| World Cup/Series | Ghent | Floor Exercise | 7 | 13.600 | |||
| World Cup/Series | Shanghai | Balance Beam | 1 | 15.600 | |||
| Floor Exercise | 2 | 15.300 | |||||
2005 season
| Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | World Cup/Series | São Paulo | Balance Beam | 2 | 9.250 | ||
| Floor Exercise | 4 | 9.050 | |||||