Han Xiaopeng (; born December 13, 1983 in
Pei
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Places
*Matecaña International Airport, Pereira, Colombia, IATA code PEI
*Pei County (沛县), Jiangsu, China
*Pei Commandery (沛郡), a commandery in Chinese history
*Prince Edward Island, a province of Canada
*Pei, T ...
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Xuzhou
Xuzhou (徐州), also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. The city, with a recorded population of 9,083,790 at the 2020 census (3,135,660 of which lived in the built-up area ma ...
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Jiangsu
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China) is a
freestyle skier
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who competed at the
2006 Winter Olympics
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in
Turin
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Italy
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, and won gold in the men's aerials event.
In this discipline he also won the
World Championships
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in 2007. Despite these great achievements, he has yet to win a World Cup competition. Han is the first Chinese male athlete to ever win a gold medal at the
Winter Olympics
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References
FIS Bio*
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1983 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Xuzhou
Chinese male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers of China
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Asian Games medalists in freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Skiers from Jiangsu
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