Huang Shanshan
Encyclopedia
Huang Shanshan is a female Chinese trampoline
gymnast who won Bronze in the individual competition
at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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, Huang Shanshan entered the final competition in third place. Unfortunately, she fell during her third jump and wound up finishing 8th overall. Despite this disappointment, she was still the first Chinese trampolinist to make a World Championship final.
During the 2006 Trampoline World Cup, she won championships in two individual competitions held in Switzerland and Germany, achieving a historic breakthrough for Chinese trampolinists. A sport with great importance in the eyes of the General Administration of Sport, her breakthrough at the World Cup will increase her confidence as the Olympics approach. Her goal at the games is to at least medal, but she also wants to be in contention for gold. At the 2008 Olympic Games, though, she failed to get into the finals due to a fall in the qualification round.
Trampolining
Trampolining is a competitive Olympic sport in which gymnasts perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. These can include simple jumps in the pike, tuck or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward or backward somersaults and twists....
gymnast who won Bronze in the individual competition
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Trampoline
These are the results for the women's individual trampoline competition, one of two events of the trampoline discipline contested in the gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
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Career
At the 2003 Trampoline World Championships2003 Trampoline World Championships
The 23rd Trampoline World Championships were held in Hannover, Germany from 17 October to 19 October 2003.- Individual :- Trampoline Team :- Synchro :- Tumbling :- Tumbling Team :- Double-Mini Trampoline :-Double Mini Trampoline Team :...
, Huang Shanshan entered the final competition in third place. Unfortunately, she fell during her third jump and wound up finishing 8th overall. Despite this disappointment, she was still the first Chinese trampolinist to make a World Championship final.
During the 2006 Trampoline World Cup, she won championships in two individual competitions held in Switzerland and Germany, achieving a historic breakthrough for Chinese trampolinists. A sport with great importance in the eyes of the General Administration of Sport, her breakthrough at the World Cup will increase her confidence as the Olympics approach. Her goal at the games is to at least medal, but she also wants to be in contention for gold. At the 2008 Olympic Games, though, she failed to get into the finals due to a fall in the qualification round.
Major achievements
- 1998 National Champion's Tournament: First team, second individual
- 1999 National Championship: First team/individual
- 1999 National Champion's Tournament: First team, third individual
- 1999 National Trampoline Championship, Tianjin: First women's team, fourth individual
- 1999 Trampoline World Age Group Championship, South Africa: Second, age group
- 2000 National Championship/National Champion's Tournament: First team, second individual
- 2001 National Championship: First team/individual
- 2001 National Champion's Tournament/National Games Finals: First team, eighth individual
- 2001 Trampoline World Youth Championship, Sydney: Second, individual
- 2001 Preliminaries of the 9th National Games (National Championship): First, individual
- 2001 Trampoline World Age Group Championship, Denmark: First, individual (in women's age group of 15-16)
- 2001 The Ninth National Games Finals: First, women's team
- 2002 National Championship: First synchronized (with Zheng Xiaojun)
- 2002 National Champion's Tournament: First team/individual
- 2003 Trampoline World Championships2003 Trampoline World ChampionshipsThe 23rd Trampoline World Championships were held in Hannover, Germany from 17 October to 19 October 2003.- Individual :- Trampoline Team :- Synchro :- Tumbling :- Tumbling Team :- Double-Mini Trampoline :-Double Mini Trampoline Team :...
: Eighth, individual
- 2003 World Cup, France: Second individual
- 2003 World Championship, Germany: Second team, eighth individual
- 2004 Athens Olympics: Third, individual women's single jump, the first trampoline medal by a Chinese athlete in a trampoline event
- 2005 National Championship: First, team
- 2005 10th National Games: First, team/individual
- 2006 Trampoline World Cup: First, individual