Huang Yubin (, born February 5, 1958) is the head coach of the Men's Artistic Gymnastics Team of China. In 1970, Huang Yubin was selected as a gymnast for the

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province team. Four years later, he made it to the national team. He won a gold medal on rings in the World Cup in 1980. It was the first time that a Chinese man won a gold medal in gymnastics. After the

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, Huang Yubin retired from gymnastics and studied at the

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, where he could only study for a semester since the national team needed more coaches. He went back to the gym and started his coaching career with the women's team. In his 20 years of coaching the national team, 15 of his pupils won world championships and Olympic gold medals, thus earning him the tag of the "Gold Medal Coach". He is known for his high standards and has helped many gymnasts win world championships, Fan Di was his first "world champion pupil", while she won the gold medal on uneven bars in the

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. Before that, many people doubted his ability as a coach. Having proven himself as a coach par excellence over three years in women's team, he started coaching the men's team. At the very beginning, some of his pupils didn't accept his training methods. They finally understood the coach when they were on the podium. In the

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won the men's all-around gold. From that year, his students better grasped his style of teaching. He had led the men's team in the

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and the

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, where Chinese gymnasts won the men's team golds in both events.

References

Huang Yubin, Gold Medal Coach
{{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Yubin Chinese male artistic gymnasts 1958 births Living people Asian Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 1978 Asian Games Gymnasts at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Sportspeople from Yantai Gymnasts from Shandong