Xu Mengtao
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| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1990年07月12日) 12 July 1990 (age 34) Anshan, Liaoning, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Doctor of Philosophy candidate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Beijing Sport University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Life partner | Wang Xindi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Aerials | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Simplified Chinese | 徐 梦 桃 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 徐 夢 桃 | ||||||||
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Xu Mengtao (Chinese: 徐梦桃; pinyin: Xú Mèngtáo; Mandarin pronunciation: [ɕy̌ mə̂ŋ thǎʊ] ; born 12 July 1990) is an Olympic Champion Chinese aerial skier. She has 27 World Cup victories and an Olympic Gold.[1] [2] [3] She is also the current World Cup leader and became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in the Aerial Ski event during her fourth Olympics at the age of 31.[4] She was one of Team China's flag bearers, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's closing ceremony.[5]
Career Results
[edit ]Olympic Games
[edit ]She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics,[6] [7] where she qualified eighth, and had the highest score after the first jump in the finals. However, she crashed on her second jump and ended up in sixth place.[8]
Xu brought home a silver medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympics with a score of 83.50 in the Ladies Aerials finals. She had obtained a score of 101.08 in jump 2 of Final 1, the highest score in the finals, but fell in Final 2.[9]
In the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Xu obtained a score of 91 in the first jump, placing her in second place, but crashed in the second jump and did not advance, ending up in 9th overall.
In the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Xu won a silver in the mixed team aerials, and also won a gold medal in the Women's Aerial Ski with a final score of 108.61, after landing a jump with three somersaults, edging out defending champion Hanna Huskova with an impressive score of 107.95 and Ashley Caldwell, who had the highest score in Final 1. In doing so, she became the first Chinese woman to win an Olympic gold in this event, after five previous silvers by Chinese athletes since the event was added in 1994.[10] [11] [12] [13]
| Year | Location | Result |
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| 2010 | Canada Vancouver | 6th Aerials |
| 2014 | Russia Sochi | Silver Aerials |
| 2018 | South Korea Pyeongchang | 9th Aerials |
| 2022 | China Beijing | Gold Aerials |
World Championships
[edit ]| Year | Location | Result |
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| 2009 | Japan Inawashiro | Silver Aerials |
| 2011 | United States Deer Valley | Silver Aerials |
| 2013 | Norway Voss | Gold Aerials |
| 2015 | Austria Kreischberg | Bronze Aerials |
| 2017 | Spain Sierra Nevada | Bronze Aerials |
| 2019 | United States Park City | Bronze Aerials |
World Cup
[edit ]Standings
[edit ]| Season | Aerials |
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| 2006/07 | 16 |
| 2008/09 | 4 |
| 2009/10 | Bronze |
| 2010/11 | Silver |
| 2011/12 | Gold |
| 2012/13 | Gold |
| 2013/14 | Bronze |
| 2014/15 | 6 |
| 2015/16 | 27 |
| 2016/17 | Gold |
| 2017/18 | Gold |
| 2018/19 | Gold |
| 2019/20 | Silver |
Individual wins
[edit ]| Date | Location |
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| 14 February 2009 | Russia Moscow |
| 20 December 2009 | China Changchun |
| 18 December 2010 | China Beidahu |
| 16 January 2011 | Canada Sainte-Adèle |
| 20 January 2012 | United States Lake Placid |
| 21 January 2012 | United States Lake Placid |
| 29 January 2012 | Canada Calgary |
| 3 February 2012 | United States Park City |
| 17 March 2012 | Norway Voss |
| 5 January 2013 | China Changchun |
| 12 January 2013 | Canada Saint-Côme |
| 18 January 2013 | United States Lake Placid |
| 1 February 2013 | United States Park City |
| 17 February 2013 | Russia Sochi |
| 20 December 2014 | China Beijing |
| 21 December 2014 | China Beijing |
| 17 December 2016 | China Beidahu |
| 10 February 2017 | South Korea Bongpyeong |
| 12 January 2018 | United States Park City |
| 20 January 2018 | United States Lake Placid |
| 19 January 2019 | United States Lake Placid |
| 23 February 2019 | Belarus Minsk |
| 3 March 2019 | China Changchun |
| 21 December 2019 | China Changchun |
| 22 December 2019 | China Changchun |
| 3 December 2021 | Finland Kuusamo |
| 5 January 2022 | Canada Lac-Beauport |
References
[edit ]- ^ FIS Bio Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "XU Mengtou". Beijing 2022 Olympics . Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Canada's Marion Thénault finishes 7th in Olympic women's aerials final". ca.sports.yahoo.com. 13 February 2022. Retrieved 2022年02月15日.
- ^ "Awesome Xu Mengtao takes aerials gold for China". CNA. Retrieved 2022年02月14日.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "Gao Tingyu, Xu Mengtao to be flag bearers of Chinese delegation at closing ceremony-Xinhua". www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 2022年02月20日.
- ^ "Vancouver 2010 Profile". vancouver2010.com. Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Xu Mengtao". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016年12月04日.
- ^ Vancouver 2010 Ladies' Aerials results Archived 24 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Mengtao XU". Archived from the original on 2014年01月21日.
- ^ "Tearful Xu Mengtao takes China's Winter Games gold tally to five". 14 February 2022.
- ^ "OCA » China settles for silver in first mixed aerials team event". ocasia.org. Archived from the original on 2022年02月15日. Retrieved 2022年02月15日.
- ^ "Olympics Live: Austria takes gold in ski jumping team event". AP NEWS. 2022年02月14日. Retrieved 2022年02月14日.
- ^ "Skier Xu of China wins gold in women's aerials". ESPN.com. 2022年02月14日. Retrieved 2022年02月14日.
External links
[edit ]- Xu Mengtao at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation Edit this at Wikidata
- Xu Mengtao at Olympedia Edit this at Wikidata
- Xu Mengtao at Olympics.com Edit this at Wikidata
- Xu Mengtao at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived)
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| Preceded by | Flagbearer for China at the Olympics closing ceremony (with Gao Tingyu) Beijing 2022 |
Succeeded by Incumbent
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