Yang Yun

Gymnast, Olympic athlete

1984 –

98

Who is Yang Yun?

Yang Yun is a Chinese gymnast. She won the bronze medal on the uneven bars at the 2000 Summer Olympics along with a fifth place finish in the all around, where a fall off the balance beam cost her the gold medal, finishing less than three and a half tenths behind eventual champion Simona Amânar of Romania. She was also a member of the bronze medal winning Chinese team, but the medal was stripped by the IOC in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members was found to be underage during the competition.

Currently, Yang Yun is a CCTV reporter. She is the wife of Chinese gymnast Yang Wei.

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Born
Dec 2, 1984
Zhuzhou
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on July 23, 2013

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