Yu Hanyue ( zh, 俞涵悦;born 12 September 2008) is a Chinese

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

. She is the 2023 Junior World balance beam champion and the 2023 Junior Asian team silver medalist.

Career

Yu competed at the 2021 Chinese Youth Games, finishing ninth with the Shanxi provincial team. At the 2022 Chinese Youth Championships, she finished fourteenth in the all-around in the under-14 group. She qualified for the floor exercise final where she finished seventh. Then at the 2022 Chinese Championships, she finished fourteenth with the Shanxi provincial team and thirty-second in the all-around qualification round. Yu was selected to compete at the 2023 Junior World Championships alongside

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and

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, and the team finished in sixth place. Individually, Yu qualified for the balance beam final in second place behind Japan's

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with a score of 13.100. In the event final, she won the gold medal with a score of 13.133. Then at the 2023 Junior Asian Championships in

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, Yu helped the Chinese team win the silver medal behind Japan. Individually, she finished ninth in the all-around and seventh in the balance beam event final.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanyue, Yu 2008 births Living people Chinese female artistic gymnasts 21st-century Chinese sportswomen Medalists at the Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships