Li Xiangning (; ; born May 11, 2000) is a Chinese

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are m ...

. She is the 2018 Cup of Nice silver medalist. the 2018 Chinese national champion, and a two-time Chinese national silver medalist (2016, 2017). On the junior level, she is the 2016 Youth Olympic champion in the team event. She placed 22nd at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

and 12th at the

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. Li switched to

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

during the

2018–19 figure skating season The 2018–19 figure skating season began on July 1, 2018, and ended on June 30, 2019. During this season, elite skaters competed at the ISU Championship level in the 2019 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships. They a ...

, partnering with Xie Zhong, but has since returned to singles before ever debuting competitively in pairs.

Career

Early years

Li began learning to skate in 2004. She debuted on the

ISU Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of me ...

series in August 2013, placing 10th in

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, Latvia.

2014–2015 season

Li qualified to the final segment in her first appearance at an ISU Championship – the World Junior Championships, held in March in

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, Estonia; she placed 24th in the short program, 20th in the free skate, and 21st overall.

2015–2016 season

In February 2016, Li placed 12th in her individual event at the Winter Youth Olympic in

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, Norway. She won gold in the team event, having competed as a member of Team Desire. The following month, she finished 20th at the 2016 World Junior Championships in

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, Hungary.

2016–2017 season

Li's senior international debut came in November 2016 at the

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; she finished 10th at her first

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assignment. She ranked 13th at the 2017 Four Continents Championships in

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, South Korea, and then 11th at the 2017 World Junior Championships in

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, Taiwan. Concluding her season, she placed 14th — seven places ahead of China's other entry in the ladies' event, Li Zijun — at the 2017 World Championships in

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, Finland.

2017–2018 season

Li won her first senior international medal, silver, at the

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in October 2017. In January, she finished tenth at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in

. In February, she competed at the

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, South Korea. She qualified to the final segment and finished 22nd overall. She was less successful at the 2018 World Championships in

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, Italy. Ranked 26th in the short program, she did not advance to the free skate.

2018–2019 season

In 2018, Li teamed up with Xie Zhong to compete in

. The new pair was invited to two Grand Prix events, the

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and

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. It was unclear how the two were eligible according to the

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's rules for the Grand Prix series. They later withdrew from both competitions.

Programs

Pair skating with Xie

Single skating

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; JGP: Junior Grand Prix''

Pair skating with Xie

Single skating

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Xiangning 2000 births Chinese female single skaters Living people Sportspeople from Qiqihar Figure skaters at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of China Figure skaters from Heilongjiang