Yang Jiaxing (born 15 August 1998) is a Chinese

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 ...

. He is a 2022 World and

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and 2019 Asian champion with the Chinese team. Individually, he is the 2019 Asian champion on the

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. He is also the 2022 Asian Championships all-around and floor exercise bronze medalist.

Career

At the 2018 Chinese Championships, Yang won a silver medal with the Hunan province team and also placed fifth in the all-around. Yang won a gold medal with the Army team at the 2019 Chinese Championships. Then at the 2019 Asian Championships in

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, he won a team gold medal alongside

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, Huang Mingqi, and

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. Individually, he won the gold medal on the floor exercise with a score of 14.533. Yang won a silver medal with the Hunan province team at the 2021 Chinese Championships and placed ninth in the all-around. He was not selected for the

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training squad. At the 2022 Asian Championships in

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, Yang won a team gold medal alongside

Shi Cong Shi Cong (; born 12 March 2001) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed in the Junior Asian Gymnastics Championships in 2017 and 2018 in Bangkok and Jakarta respectively. In 2017 we won a silver medal with the Chinese junior team. In 2018 He ...

, Yin Dehang,

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, and

. Individually, he won the all-around bronze medal with a total score of 83.733 behind teammate Shi and Filipino gymnast

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. In the event finals, he won another bronze medal on the floor exercise behind Yulo and Kim Han-sol. He also placed fifth in the rings final and sixth in the horizontal bar final. Then at the 2022 Chinese Championships, Yang won a silver medal with the Hunan province team. He also won his first national individual medal by winning bronze in the all-around behind

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and Sun Wei. Yang was selected to compete at the 2022 World Championships in

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alongside Sun Wei,

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, and

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. The team won the gold medal and qualified China a team spot for the 2024 Olympic Games.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Jiaxing 1998 births Living people Chinese male artistic gymnasts 21st-century Chinese people Gymnasts from Hunan