03. August 2003  
Bejing/China  
Artistic Gymnastics

China s teams for Anaheim

LI, Xiaopeng, China

After seven tests among the 21 national team athletes, the Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) finally selected seven men and seven women to take part in the high-profile international event, the World Champs in Anaheim.
On August 2, the team began training at South Coast Gymnastics.
Led by four Olympic champions - Li Xiaopeng, Yang Wei, Huang Xu and Xing Aowei - the Chinese men's side boasts the strongest line-up in the men's team competition. Besides, young guns and Asian champions Teng Haibin, Liang Fuliang and Xiao Qin, the pommel horse runner-up in the last two Worlds, are also the medal contenders in the horizontal bar and pommel horse....

Most ecperience: ZHANG, Nan

The 2001 world men's individual all-around champion Feng Jing could not attend the match.

The women's side is rather young and less experienced.
Only Zhang Nan, the runner-up at the 2002 World Cup Grand Finals, and the Asian balance beam champion Kang Xin, both aged 17, have international match experience. The other five teenage members - Li Ya, Fan Ye, Zhang Yufei, Lin Li and Zhang Tiantian - are all newcomers to international gymnastics.
However, the final six-member squad to compete in the men's and women's team event will be decided 24 hours before the match according to the players' performance in the 10-day training session in the United States.
On August 2, the team began training at South Coast Gymnastics, which is owned by 1981 world pommel horse champion Li Xiaoping.
(source: China Daily)
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