Guan Chenchen ( zh, c=管晨辰, p=Guǎn Chén Chén; born September 25, 2004) is a Chinese former

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. She is the 2020 Olympic champion and the 2020 Chinese champion on the

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. On the junior level, she was a member of the Chinese team who won silver at the 2019 Junior World Championships.

Career

Guan began gymnastics in November 2010.

Junior

2017

Guan competed at the Chinese Junior National Championships where she finished third amongst the 2003–04 born gymnasts and won the silver medal on the uneven bars.

2018

Guan competed at the senior-level Chinese Championships and tied for the silver medal on the balance beam with

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. She also won a bronze medal with the Zhejiang team and placed seventh in the all-around and floor exercise. Then in June, she competed at the Chinese Junior National Championships where she won the all-around gold medal in the 14 and under division. During the event finals, she placed fourth on the uneven bars, won gold on the balance beam, and won silver on the floor exercise behind

Wei Xiaoyuan Wei Xiaoyuan ( zh, 韦筱圆, born August 25, 2004) is a Chinese artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is best known for her work on the uneven bars, where she is a two-time world champion (2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 202 ...

2019

Guan made her international debut at the

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where she placed ninth in the all-around and sixth on the vault and floor exercise. In May, she competed at the Chinese Championships where she placed eighth in the all-around and won a bronze medal with the Zhejiang team. She was then selected to represent China at the inaugural Junior World Championships alongside Ou Yushan and

. The team won the silver medal, behind Russia and ahead of the United States. Individually, Guan finished sixth in the vault final. She finished the season competing at the Chinese National Youth Games where she finished fourth in the all-around, first on vault, sixth on uneven bars, and second on balance beam behind Ou Yushan.

Senior

2020

In September, Guan made her senior debut at the Chinese Championships representing the

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provincial team. She led the team to win bronze in the team competition and individually qualified for the all-around final in second place behind reigning national champion Liu Tingting with a score of 55.900. She also qualified in first place for the balance beam final by a wide margin over reigning Junior World silver medalist

and reigning

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silver medalist Liu. Her credited difficulty score of 7.0 was the highest of the 2017-2020 quad to that point. During the all-around final, she made multiple mistakes on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise and ended the competition in sixth place. During the balance beam final, she won the gold medal ahead of Wei and Liu with a score of 14.933, and she placed eighth in the floor exercise final.

2021

Guan began the season at the Chinese Championships where she won a bronze medal with the Zhejiang team. Individually, she placed ninth in the all-around final and sixth in the balance beam final. In June, she competed at the 1st Chinese Olympic Trials and won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Ou Yushan with a score of 15.133. Then at the 2nd Chinese Olympic Trials, she won the gold medal on the balance beam with a score of 15.366. She was then selected to represent

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for one of China's two individual spots. At the

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, Guan only competed on the balance beam during

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and qualified first into the final with a score of 14.933. On August 3, Guan competed in the balance beam final as the youngest competitor and won the gold medal with a total score of 14.633 ahead of teammate

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and American

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. She became the third Chinese gymnast to win the Olympic gold medal on the balance beam after Liu Xuan in 2000 and

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in 2012. After the Olympics, Guan competed at the

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but fell in the balance beam final and placed fifth with a score of 13.920.

2022

In October 2022, a representative of the Chinese Gymnastics Federation revealed that Guan had retired from gymnastics to focus on her studies at

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Competitive history

References

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