Xing Aowei
Encyclopedia
Xing Aowei is a Male Chinese
gymnast
. Xing was part of the Chinese team that won the gold medal in the team event at the 2000 Summer Olympics
in Sydney
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People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
gymnast
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
. Xing was part of the Chinese team that won the gold medal in the team event at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
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Major performances
- 1998 Asian Games - 1st team & pommel horse, 3rd horizontal bar
- 1998 National Championships - 1st pommel horse
- 1998 World Middle School Students Games - 1st all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse, parallel bars & horizontal bar
- 1999 National Championships - 1st pommel horse, 2nd floor exercise
- 1999 World Cup Series - 1st pommel horse
- 1999 National Champions Tournament - 2nd pommel horse
- 1999 World Championships - 1st team, 3rd floor exercise
- 2000 National Championships - 1st all-around, floor exercise & pommel horse, 2nd parallel bars
- 2000 Sydney Olympic Games - 1st team
- 2000 World Cup Grand Finals - 3rd pommel horse
- 2001 East Asian Games - 1st team, vaulting horse & horizontal bar
- 2001 National Championships - 1st horizontal bar
- 2002 Asian Games - 1st team
- 2004 Athens Olympics - 5th team