Ling Jie (born October 22, 1982) is a retired 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 was the 1999 World Champion on the

balance beam The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. The apparatus and the event are sometimes simply called "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is BB. The bal ...

, the 2000 Chinese all-around national champion, and the silver medalist on the

uneven bars The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or ...

at the

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. Ling was also a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the

, but the medal was stripped by the IOC in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members,

Dong Fangxiao Dong Fangxiao () is a Chinese retired international gymnast who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal with the Chinese team at the Olympics, as well as the 1999 World Championships in Tianjin China, but both the medals ...

, was found to be underage during the competition. In March 2012, the 1999 World Championship Team Bronze was forfeited by China and given to Ukraine in light of the same information. She is the innovator of a skill on the uneven bars that bears her name in the Code of Points: the "Ling," a full pirouetting front giant starting and ending in the inverted grip.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ling, Jie 1982 births Living people Chinese female artistic gymnasts World champion gymnasts Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic medalists in gymnastics Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals Gymnasts from Hunan People from Hengyang Asian Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 1998 Asian Games Olympic gymnasts for China Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games gymnasts for China Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics FISU World University Games gold medalists for China FISU World University Games silver medalists for China 21st-century Chinese sportswomen