Wu Penggen (

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:, born 7 May 1982) is a male

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professional

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player.

Career

He and partner

Xu Linyin Xu Linyin (Simplified Chinese:, born 20 March 1986 in Shanghai) is a Chinese professional beach volleyball player. Career Nicknamed "Giant" because of his height, Xu Linyin stands 6 feet 7 inches tall. He headed into the 2008 Olympic ...

competed in the beach volleyball event at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

where they finished a respectable 5th place overall. On 14 June 2010, Wu Penggen and Xu Linyin bested the Olympic Champions from USA Todd Rogers and

Phil Dalhausser Philip "Phil" Peter Dalhausser (born January 26, 1980) is a Swiss-born American professional beach volleyball player, playing as a blocker. He and his former playing partner, Todd Rogers, were the 2007 AVP Tour and FIVB world champions. Dalha ...

21–17, 17-21 and 17–15 to win the Gold at the FIVB World Tour title in Moscow, Russia. This was the first time China won the title in the men's event in the 24-year history of the international Beach Volleyball circuit. The duo of Wu and Xu continued their extraordinary performance with a second Gold on the FIVB World Tour in Marseille, France on 25 July 2010,
and ended the season ranked 4th overall on the

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in beach volleyball. The teams of the member nations of the FIVB, beach volleyball and volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their c ...

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Olympic data base – Wu Penggen
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