Tan Sixin ( zh, c= 谭思欣, p=Tán Sì Xīn, born January 10, 1995, in

Jiangmen Jiangmen ( zh, c=江门), postal map romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong provinces of China, Province in southern China. It consists of three urban distri ...

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) is a retired female Chinese

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. She joined the Chinese national team in 2009. At age 14, she won the beam final in the

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beating Olympians including World Champion Deng Linlin. At the Youth Olympics in 2010, she won Gold in the Beam and Floor Exercise and Silver in the All-Around and Uneven Bars final (after

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). She is a balance beam specialist, scoring as high as 15.550. Tan became a senior in 2011. She won silver on floor at the Cottbus World Cup and gold on beam and bars at the Doha World Cup. At the 2011 Chinese National Championships she won gold with her represented team

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and gold in the all around. She was named to the team for the

2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 7–16, 2011, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Due to uncertainty over the nuclear situation following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Féd� ...

held in October 2011 in

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and won a bronze medal in the team final. However, multiple mistakes in the preliminary competition prevented her from entering the all-around and event finals. Tan was an alternate for the 2012 Olympic team. She competed at the Individual National Championships finishing out of the medals in the uneven bars and balance beam, which many people consider her best events.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Sixin 1995 births Living people Chinese female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Gymnasts from Guangdong People from Jiangmen Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Youth Olympic gold medalists for China 21st-century Chinese sportswomen