Guan Chenchen
管晨辰
Guan at the 2019 Junior World Championships
Personal information
Nickname(s)Guan Xiaopang
Country represented China
Born (2004-09-25) September 25, 2004 (age 19)
Jingzhou, Hubei, China
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2018–2021 (CHN)
ClubZhejiang Province
Head coach(es)Wang Qunce
RetiredOctober 28, 2022[1]
Medal record
Women's artistic gymnastics
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Balance beam
Junior World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Győr Team

Guan Chenchen (Chinese: 管晨辰; pinyin: Guǎn Chén Chén; born September 25, 2004) is a Chinese former artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic champion and the 2020 Chinese champion on the balance beam. On the junior level, she was a member of the Chinese team who won silver at the 2019 Junior World Championships.

Junior gymnastics career

Guan began gymnastics in November 2010.[2]

2017

Guan competed at the Chinese Junior National Championships where she finished third amongst the 2003–04 born gymnasts and won the silver medal on the uneven bars.[3]

2018

Guan competed at the senior-level Chinese Championships and tied for the silver medal on the balance beam with Chen Yile. She also won a bronze medal with the Zhejiang team and placed seventh in the all-around and floor exercise.[4] Then in June, she competed at the Chinese Junior National Championships where she won the all-around gold medal in the 14 and under division. During the event finals, she placed fourth on the uneven bars, won gold on the balance beam, and won silver on the floor exercise behind Wei Xiaoyuan.[5]

2019

Guan made her international debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy where she placed ninth in the all-around and sixth on the vault and floor exercise.[6] In May, she competed at the Chinese Championships where she placed eighth in the all-around and won a bronze medal with the Zhejiang team.[7] She was then selected to represent China at the inaugural Junior World Championships alongside Ou Yushan and Wei Xiaoyuan. The team won the silver medal, behind Russia and ahead of the United States.[8] Individually, Guan finished sixth in the vault final.[9] She finished the season competing at the Chinese National Youth Games where she finished fourth in the all-around, first on vault, sixth on uneven bars, and second on balance beam behind Ou Yushan.[10]

Team / All-Around Final
Team / All-Around Final
Vault Final
Guan at the 2019 Junior World Championships

Senior gymnastics career

2020

In September, Guan made her senior debut at the Chinese Championships representing the Zhejiang provincial team. She led the team to win bronze in the team competition and individually qualified for the all-around final in second place behind reigning national champion Liu Tingting with a score of 55.900. She also qualified in first place for the balance beam final by a wide margin over reigning Junior World silver medalist Wei Xiaoyuan and reigning World silver medalist Liu. Her credited difficulty score of 7.0 was the highest of the 2017-2020 quad to that point.[11] During the all-around final, she made multiple mistakes on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise and ended the competition in sixth place.[12] During the balance beam final, she won the gold medal ahead of Wei and Liu with a score of 14.933, and she placed eighth in the floor exercise final.[13]

2021

Guan began the season at the Chinese Championships where she won a bronze medal with the Zhejiang team. Individually, she placed ninth in the all-around final and sixth in the balance beam final.[14] In June, she competed at the 1st Chinese Olympic Trials and won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Ou Yushan with a score of 15.133.[15] Then at the 2nd Chinese Olympic Trials, she won the gold medal on the balance beam with a score of 15.366.[16] She was then selected to represent China at the 2020 Summer Olympics for one of China's two individual spots.[17]

At the Olympic Games, Guan only competed on the balance beam during qualifications and qualified first into the final with a score of 14.933. On August 3, Guan competed in the balance beam final as the youngest competitor and won the gold medal with a total score of 14.633 ahead of teammate Tang Xijing and American Simone Biles.[18] She became the third Chinese gymnast to win the Olympic gold medal on the balance beam after Liu Xuan in 2000 and Deng Linlin in 2012.[19]

After the Olympics, Guan competed at the Chinese National Games but fell in the balance beam final and placed fifth with a score of 13.920.[20]

2022

In October 2022, a representative of the Chinese Gymnastics Federation revealed that Guan had retired from gymnastics to focus on her studies at Zhejiang University.[1]

Competitive history

Guan (second from the left) at the 2019 Junior World Championships
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
Junior
2017 Junior Chinese Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018 Chinese Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Junior Chinese Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019 City of Jesolo Trophy 9 6 6
Chinese Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8
Junior World Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6
National Youth Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Senior
2020 Chinese Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8
2021 Chinese Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 9 6
Olympic Games 1st place, gold medalist(s)
National Games 4 5

References

  1. ^ a b "Guan Chenchen, Olympic balance beam champion, leaves gymnastics for college". NBC Sports. October 28, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  2. ^ "Guan Chenchen". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  3. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (June 19, 2017). "2017 Chinese Junior Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (May 9, 2018). "2018 Chinese Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  5. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (June 19, 2018). "2018 Chinese Junior Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  6. ^ "XII International Trophy City of Jesolo - Finals" (PDF). USA Gymnastics (in Italian). March 3, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  7. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (May 16, 2019). "2019 Chinese Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  8. ^ "1st FIG Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships Gyor (HUN), 27 June - 30 June 2019 Women's Team Final Ranking" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. June 28, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  9. ^ "1st FIG Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships Gyor (HUN), 27 June - 30 June 2019 Women's Vault Final" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. June 29, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  10. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (August 7, 2019). "2019 Chinese National Youth Games Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  11. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (September 26, 2020). "Liu Leads Going Into All-Around Final". The Gymternet. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  12. ^ Jiwani, Rory (September 26, 2020). "Liu Tingting retains Chinese all-around title". Olympic Channel. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  13. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (September 29, 2020). "2020 Chinese Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  14. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (May 15, 2021). "2021 Chinese Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  15. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (June 19, 2021). "2021 1st Chinese Olympic Trials Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  16. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (July 7, 2022). "2021 2nd Chinese Olympic Trials Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  17. ^ Lu, Yuchen; Shen, Nan; Niu, Mengtong (July 3, 2021). "步步为赢——中国体操队东京奥运会大名单诞生记" [Step-by-step to win – the creation of the Chinese gymnastics squad for the Tokyo Olympics]. Xinhua (in Chinese). Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  18. ^ Macur, Juliet (August 3, 2021). "Guan Chenchen of China wins gold. Biles takes bronze". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  19. ^ Ramsay, George (August 3, 2021). "Guan Chenchen wins balance beam gold at the Tokyo Olympics as Simone Biles claims bronze". CNN. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  20. ^ "Olympic gold-winning gymnast Guan falters at National Games". China Daily. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2022.

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