Yang Wei
Yang Wei was born in Xiantao City, Hubei, China on February 8th, 1980 and is the Gymnast. At the age of 44, Yang Wei biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 44 years old, Yang Wei has this physical status:
Yang Wei (born February 8, 1980 in Xiantao, Hubei) is a male gymnast from China.
Personal life
Yang Wei has a long-time relationship with former gymnast, Yang Yun, who is an Olympic bronze medalist (uneven bars) for China, and now a CCTV reporter. In June 2006, Yang Wei invited Yang Yun to a news conference, which turned out to be a ploy for him to surprise her with a proposal. While he trained for the Beijing Olympic Games, the two had very few chances to be together, and kept in touch through text messaging. After his Olympic gold in the All-Around in Beijing on Thursday, Yang Wei faced the camera and mouthed the words, "I love you," to his fiancée. Yang Yun, who watched his victory on television, shouted "I love you, too!" back to the screen. Yang Wei: "Gold Medal for my Love!" The two married on November 6, 2008. Their son, Yang Wenchang (杨文昌), was born November 2009. Their twin daughters were born in 2017.
Career
Yang Wei won the gold medal in the individual all-around competition and also in the team event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
In 2003, he captured gold in the team event and silver in the all-around competition at the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim.
After many of them dropped, his world championship winning team finished fifth in Athens at the 2004 Olympics. Wei was also the favorite to win the gold medal at the Individual All-Around in Athens, but a low score of 8.975 kept him out of medal contention. That night, he finished seventh. The Chinese team regained control by winning gold in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, defeating Japan and the United States.
Yang returned to form at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus by winning gold in the team, individual all-around, and parallel bars competitions. At the 2006 Asian Games, he also received a gold medal in the team event, individual all-around, rings, and parallel bars competitions.
He successfully defended his team and all-around titles at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, and he captured the Chinese National Championships in 2007 and 2008.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Yang Wei claimed gold in the individual all-around and team finals. He also won silver in the rings event final and placed fourth in the pommel horse final.
Yang Wei is best known for his outstanding difficulty ratings across the six events.