Gymnastics History

Sang Lan came to the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York as China’s reigning national vault champion.

If one were to write a list of men’s gymnastics prodigies, Dmitri Bilozerchev would be at the top.

Teng Haibin was supposed to be the future of Chinese gymnastics.

Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about Li Xiaopeng.

Xiao Junfeng was born in Xi’an but was recruited to compete for Shenzhen in 1990.

Zhang Jinjing’s career was short but brilliant.

Few gymnasts of the 1990s combined technical precision with artistic elegance as successfully as Huang Liping.

Olympic all-around champion, world all-around champion, and one of China’s greatest athletes, Li Xiaoshuang was among the biggest stars in world gymnastics during the mid-1990s.

Li Jing belonged to one of the strongest generations in Chinese men’s gymnastics, but he never wanted to be known simply as another member of the “Li family.”

Valeri Liukin emerged as one of the Soviet Union’s leading gymnasts in 1987.