Tan Sixin

谭思欣 (Tán Sì Xīn)
Born	(1995-01-10) January 10, 1995 (age 29) Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
Hometown	Shanghai, China
Height	148 cm (4 ft 10 in)
Weight	35 kg (77 lb)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	China
Years on national team	2009–13 (CHN)
Level	Senior
Club	National team
Head coach(es)	He Hua, Liu Guicheng
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 0 0 1 Pacific Rim Championships 0 2 1 Youth Olympic Games 2 2 0 East Asian Games 4 0 0 National Games 4 0 1 Total 10 4 3 Women's gymnastics Representing  China World Championships 2011 Tokyo Team Pacific Rim Championships 2010 Melbourne Team 2012 Seattle Team 2012 Seattle Balance Beam Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore Balance Beam 2010 Singapore Floor Exercise 2010 Singapore All-Around 2010 Singapore Uneven Bars East Asian Games 2013 Tianjin Team 2013 Tianjin All-Around 2013 Tianjin Balance Beam 2013 Tianjin Floor Exercise National Games 2009 Jinan Team 2009 Jinan Balance Beam 2013 Dalian Team 2013 Dalian Balance Beam 2013 Dalian Floor Exercise

Tan Sixin (Chinese: 谭思欣; pinyin: Tán Sì Xīn, born January 10, 1995, in Jiangmen, Guangdong) is a female Chinese gymnast. ^[1] She joined the Chinese national team in 2009. At age 14, she won the beam final in the 2009 National Games of China 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 Viktoria Komova). 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 Shanghai and gold in the all around.^[2] She was named to the team for the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in October 2011 in Tokyo, Japan 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.

References

1. Straits Times
2. "The Leading Source of Gymnastics News".

External links

• Tan Sixin at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Tan Sixin at Olympedia (archive)