Liu Yang (; born 10 September 1994) is a Chinese

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. He is the

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and 2014 World champion on

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. He was a member of the Chinese team who won gold at the 2014 World Championships and also won bronze in the team competition at the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

Career

Liu began gymnastics when he was five years old. At the 2013 Cottbus World Cup, Liu won the silver medal on the rings behind Greek gymnast

Eleftherios Petrounias Eleftherios "Lefteris" Petrounias ( gr, Ελευθέριος "Λευτέρης" Πετρούνιας; born 30 November 1990, Athens) is a Greek artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympic champion, 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, three-time World c ...

. He finished fourth in the rings final at the 2013 World Championships. At the 2014 World Championships, Liu competed alongside Cheng Ran,

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You Hao You Hao (; born April 26, 1992) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed for the Chinese national team at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015. He became the World Champion on parallel bars at the 2015 World Cha ...

, and

Zhang Chenglong Zhang Chenglong (; born May 12, 1989) is a Chinese gymnast. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around, Men's artistic team all-around and helpe ...

, and they won the gold medal in the team event. Individually, he won the gold medal on rings. He said on winning the rings gold medal, "I am very, very excited that I won the gold medal today and I wish to thank my teammates and my brothers and my sisters who have been cheering for me along the way... Last year during the World Championships I came fourth because of some minor mistakes I made during my performance. But this year I seized the opportunity and I managed to win and I am still very excited right now." Liu competed at the 2015 World Championships and won the bronze medal with the Chinese team. In the rings final, he won the bronze medal behind Eleftherios Petrounias and You Hao. Liu was selected to represent

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alongside Deng Shudi, Lin Chaopan, Zhang Chenglong, and You Han. They won the bronze medal in the team competition behind Japan and Russia. In the rings event final, he finished fourth. At the 2017 World Championships, Liu won the bronze medal on rings behind Eleftherios Petrounias and

Denis Ablyazin Denis Mikhailovich Ablyazin ( rus, Денис Михайлович Аблязин, , dʲɪˈnʲis ɐˈblʲæzʲɪn, born 3 August 1992) is a Russian artistic gymnast. Ablyazin is Olympic Champion 2020 in Tokyo and a seven-time Olympic Games med ...

. Liu began his attempt to qualify for the 2020 Olympics through the World Cup series at the 2018 Cottbus World Cup where he won the gold medal on rings. He also won the gold medal on rings at the 2019 Melbourne World Cup and the 2019 Cottbus World Cup. While Liu won the maximum number of points through the World Cup series, he lost the tiebreaker to Eleftherios Petrounias and did not earn the Olympic spot. China earned an additional quota for the 2020 Olympics through the cancelled All-Around World Cup series, and this spot was awarded to Liu. At the

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, Liu won the gold medal on

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with a score of 15.500 with teammate You Hao winning the silver medal.

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