Luo Rui ( zh, 罗蕊, born 26 November 2005) is a Chinese former

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 is the 2021 World bronze 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 ...

. She is the 2022 Chinese uneven bars champion and the 2019 Chinese junior all-around champion. She was one of China's alternates for the

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Gymnastics career

Junior

Luo finished fourth in the all-around at the 2018 Chinese Junior Championships, and she won the bronze medal in the

floor exercise In gymnastics, the floor is a specially prepared exercise surface, considered an apparatus. The floor exercise (English abbreviation FX) is the event performed on the floor, in both women's and men's artistic gymnastics (WAG and MAG). The same flo ...

final. She then competed at the senior-level 2019 Chinese Championships and won a gold medal with the Guangdong provincial team, but she did not advance into any individual finals. She then won the all-around and

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 ...

titles at the 2019 Chinese Junior Championships. At the

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, she won a gold medal with the Guangdong provincial team, and she finished fourth in the uneven bars final.

Senior

Luo became age-eligible for senior international competitions in 2021. At the 2021 Chinese Championships, she won a gold medal with the Guangdong provincial team and placed eighth in the all-around. In the uneven bars final, she tied with

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for the silver medal. She was named as an alternate for China's 2020 Olympic team. Then at the

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, she won the all-around bronze medal behind Wei and

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, and she won a gold medal in the team event. She was then selected to make her international debut at the 2021 World Championships. In the uneven bars final, she tied with

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for the second-highest score, but she lost the tiebreaker and received the bronze medal. She also qualified for the balance beam final, but she fell and finished fifth. Luo won the uneven bars title at the 2022 Chinese Championships. She was then selected to compete at the 2022 World Championships and was the top qualifier for the uneven bars final. She fell off the balance beam in the team final, and the Chinese team finished sixth. In the uneven bars final, she smacked her feet on the high bar on a layout jaeger release move and finished in sixth place. Luo won a gold medal with the Guangdong provincial team at the 2023 Chinese Championships, but she did not advance into any individual finals. She announced her retirement from the sport in May 2024.

Competitive history

References

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