Tang Xijing

Tang Xijing (; born January 3, 2003) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. She is the 2019 World all-around silver medalist, matching Jiang Yuyuan at the 2010 World Championships for the highest all-around finish for a Chinese woman in World or Olympic history. She is also the 2020 Olympic silver medalist on balance beam and the 2022 Chinese national all-around champion. At the junior level she is the 2018 Youth Olympic balance beam champion and uneven bars bronze medalist. She unofficially announced her retirement on March 20, 2024, on her alternate Weibo account.

Junior gymnastics career Tang won the gold medal as part of the Chinese team with He Licheng, Qi Qi, Yin Sisi, and Zhao Shiting at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia. Individually, she won the gold in balance beam ahead of Yin and Eum Doh-yun of South Korea. Tang won the bronze medal in the all-around at the 2018 Chinese National Championships behind Luo Huan and Zhang Jin. She won silver with the Beijing team and placed fourth in the uneven bars final.

Tang competed at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she qualified third into the all-around final and all event finals except vault.

2020 After the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tang competed at the delayed Chinese National Championships in September. As the reigning World all-around silver medalist, Tang was a favorite for the title. In the qualification round, which also served as the team final, Tang and Qi Qi led the Beijing provincial team to a fourth consecutive silver medal. Individually, a major error on the uneven bars and a fall on the balance beam caused Tang to miss qualifying for both of those event finals and to enter the all-around final in sixth place. However, a strong performance in floor featuring a new full-twisting double tuck allowed her to qualify to that final in third place behind Qi and reigning national champion Shang Chunsong.

In the all-around final, Tang improved on her qualifications performance to place fifth in the two-day combined all-around standings. Tang recorded the top beam score of the day by a wide margin after landing her new double pike dismount and earned the fourth-highest score in both vault and floor exercise. Another major error on the uneven bars prevented her from making the all-around podium, with her training mates Wei Xiaoyuan and Qi Qi ultimately taking silver and bronze. In the floor exercise final, Tang also placed fifth with a clean routine, less than a tenth from the podium.

2021 On 3 July, Tang was selected to represent China at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Lu Yufei, Ou Yushan, and Zhang Jin; they finished seventh as a team. On 3 August she competed in the balance beam event final and won the silver medal behind compatriot Guan Chenchen.

2022 Tang competed at the 2022 Asian Championships in June. While there she helped China place first as a team. Individually, she won silver in the all-around behind Zhang Jin and in uneven bars behind Wei Xiaoyuan. At the Chinese National Championships Tang placed first in the all-around. Additionally, she placed third in uneven bars behind Luo Rui and Wei Xiaoyuan, and eighth in floor exercise.

Selected competitive skills

Competitive history

+Competitive history of Tang Xijing at the junior levelYearEvent 2016 Junior National Championships 2017 National Championships 4 8 National Games 2018 Asian Junior Championships National Championships 4 Individual National Championships 4 5 Youth Olympic Games 4 4

+Competitive history of Tang Xijing at the senior levelYearEvent 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy 4 National Championships 4 World Championships 4 2020 National Championships 5 5 Individual National Championships 6 2021 National Championships 4 5 Olympic Games 7 7 National Games 13 6 2022 Asian Championships National Championships 12 8 World Championships 6 WD 2023 National Championships 4 Asian Games 5 small|Source: