Kai Wen "Kevin" Tan (; born September 24, 1981) is an

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artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

Early life

Tan was born in 1981 in Fremont,

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. He graduated from

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, Class of 2000.

Career

Penn State #Redirect Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campu ...

, Tan was a six time All-American. He won the NCAA team championship as a senior in 2004 and also won the individual titles in still rings in 2003 and 2004, thus becoming Penn State's first back-to-back NCAA champion on the still rings. He also earned All-American honors on the parallel bars (2002) and high bar (2003) during his career. Following his graduation, he began working as an assistant coach of the Penn State men's gymnastics team. Tan was a member of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 U.S. teams to the

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and is a 3-time U.S. national champion on the

still rings The rings, also known as still rings (in contrast to flying rings), is an artistic gymnastics apparatus and the event that uses it. It is traditionally used only by male gymnasts, due to its extreme upper body strength requirements. Gymnasts oft ...

, his specialty. Tan was named to the 2008 Olympic team and was selected as captain of the team. Tan did not qualify for the event final for his signature event

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. During the

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on the last event the

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, Tan scored 12.755. Fellow team member and original alternate

Alexander Artemev Alexander Vladimirovich "Sasha" Artemev (russian: Александр Владимирович "Саша" Артемьев, be, Аляксандр Уладзіміравіч Арцем'еў; born August 29, 1985) is a retired American artistic gy ...

secured the bronze medal with a score 15.350.

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* * * * * 1981 births Living people American male artistic gymnasts American sportspeople of Taiwanese descent American people of Chinese descent Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in gymnastics Pennsylvania State University alumni Sportspeople from Fremont, California Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Penn State Nittany Lions men's gymnasts Penn State Nittany Lions men's gymnastics coaches Mission San Jose High School alumni {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub

Early life

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