Teng Haibin (; born January 2, 1985, in
Beijing
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) is a male
Chinese
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gymnast
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.
He is a Two Time World Champion as well as an Olympic gold medalist on the
pommel horse
The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts. Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and ...
. He cost his team a medal at the
2004 Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
with multiple falls on every apparatus (except his specialty pommel horse). He and
Xiao Qin
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are considered personal favorites of Head Coach
Huang Yubin
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 Liaoning province team. Four years later, he made it to the national team. He won a go ...
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He is married to Olympics all-around bronze medalist,
Zhang Nan.
See also
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Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, three disciplines of gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics (August 14–23), rhythmic gymnastics (August 26–29) and trampolining, trampoline (August 20–21). The artistic gymnastics and ...
References
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Teng Haibin (Parallel Bars)*
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1985 births
Living people
Chinese male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic gymnasts of China
Gymnasts from Beijing
World champion gymnasts
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in gymnastics
Gymnasts at the 2002 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
21st-century Chinese people
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