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Jiang Yuyuan (also Yuyan; ; born November 1, 1991, in Liuzhou, Guangxi) is a retired China gymnast. She is the 2008 Chinese all-around senior National Champion and a member of the gold medal-winning People's Republic of China team for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jiang was a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team at the 2007 World Championships, the bronze medal-winning member at the 2010 World Championships and 2011 World Championships, and the all-around gold medalist at the 2007 Good Luck Beijing Olympic test event. In 2010, she replaced Cheng Fei as the captain of the Chinese national team (due to Fei's leg injury). She won a silver medal in the all-around competition at the 2010 World Championships, which is the highest position that a Chinese woman has ever placed in the all-around competition at a world or Olympic championship.
Jiang and her teammate, Deng Linlin, appeared in the official Olympics documentary 筑梦2008 ( Dream Weavers 2008) which followed the gymnasts from 2003 until Jiang's international debut at the 2007 World Championships. 奥运准官方电影《筑梦2008》：洩露官方机密？ sina.com July 6, 2008
Jiang captured glory in the 2002 Provincial Gymnastics Championships for the Zhejiang Provincial Team by winning the all-around competition and, in so doing, caught the attention of the National Team coaches. Soon thereafter, in 2003, she joined the National Training Camp for a stint before it was forced to disband due to the outbreak of the disease, SARS. Jiang joined the National Team 2 in 2004, and was selected from a list of 300 hopefuls of Team 2 to join the National Team 1 in 2006. Jiang Yuyuan have been away from hometown. All-around title is the new target 2008.sohu.com, August 13, 2008 "2003年，江钰源首次进入国家集训队，但是因为当年非典盛行，最后集训被迫解散。2004年，她进入国家二队；2006年，她又在300多人的国家二队大名单中脱颖而出，进入国家一队。"
She made her senior international debut in 2007 as a member of the Chinese team that won the silver medal in the team competition at the 2007 World Gymnastics Championships. At the same competition, she placed 4th on floor exercise in the individual event finals. In November 2007, she won the all-around at the Good Luck Beijing Olympic Test Event.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jiang helped the Chinese team to win the team gold medal at the Olympics. Individually, she finished in 6th place in the all-around competition and finished 4th place in the floor exercise event final. Jiang competed at the Olympics with an elbow injury, specifically periosteum inflammation. Her coach disclosed that the injury greatly affected her performance at the Olympics, particularly on vault, where pain prevented her from successfully executing her 2.5-twisting Yurchenko (Amanar), which was crucial for her success in the individual all-around final. As a result of the injury, Chinese coach Lu Shanzhen also decided to pull Jiang from the vault rotation in the team finals, replacing her with Deng Linlin 20 minutes before the competition began. "比賽開始前20分鐘，體操隊在訓練房最後一次賽前訓練，當時他覺得江鈺源狀態不是很好。“源源的手肘有些傷，最近狀態不是很好，所以臨時決定用穩定替換難度。”陸善真娓娓道來，“鄧琳琳屬於穩定型選手，關鍵時刻，一個穩定的發揮可以更好地鼓舞士氣。"
In 2009, she participated in the 2009 Summer Universiade. She won a team gold medal with her teammates, Cheng Fei, He Ning, Zhou Zhuoru and Liu Nanxi.
In 2010, Jiang was selected to compete for the team of women representing China at the 2010 World Championships. The team qualified second into the team final, while Jiang herself qualified 4th into the all-around final along with teammate Huang Qiushuang. She also placed 5th on uneven bars, but did not advance into the final due to the 'two per country rule' while her teammates He Kexin and Huang Qiushuang qualified first and second. In the team final, Jiang participated in all four events. Despite falls and mistakes made by Jiang and her teammates, the Chinese women team managed to secure a bronze medal, following Russia and the United States. In the all-around final, Jiang finished 2nd behind Russia's Aliya Mustafina, with a total score of 59.998. Jiang also competed in the Toyota cup winning gold on uneven bars 15.425 and bronze on floor, 14.175 behind Aliya Mustafina and Sui Lu who tied for gold.
On March 24, 2011, Jiang is set to compete in Canada's Wild Rose Cup along with newcomers and juniors Huang Huidan and Shang Chunsong.
She was selected as an alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Jiang has served as the captain of the Chinese team since 2010. At the National Training Center, her responsibilities include looking after younger gymnasts at the dormitory.
The New York Times claimed that official media and some official Web sites in China, including that of the State General Administration of Sport, listed Chinese gymnasts' details which indicated that Jiang, He Kexin and Yang Yilin may have been as young as 14. During the Olympics, media focused their attention on Jiang, He Kexin, Yang Yilin and Deng Linlin. In response, Chinese officials claimed the discrepancies for He Kexin were caused by paperwork errors when the gymnast switched teams. Chinese authorities presented passport information to show that they were 16 years old as of 2008. Chinese coach Lu Shanzhen explained that Chinese competitors had for years all been small. "It is not just this time. It is a question of race. European and American athletes are all powerful, very robust. But Chinese athletes... are by nature that small." Sportswriter E.M. Swift criticized the IOC for "spending millions of dollars trying to ferret out drug cheats while allegations of institutionalized cheating" by the Chinese government.
On 22 August 2008 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) instructed the FIG to investigate the allegations that He Kexin was under-age, and were asked to report back to the IOC later that day. The FIG accepted passport ages as valid proof and declared gymnasts eligible. On 23 August, further pressure led the FIG to request additional documentation on five of the six athletes on the Chinese team. IOC president Jacques Rogge said that FIG had demanded "birth certificates and all the documents like Hukou system, entries in schools and things like that." While the FIG investigation was in progress, the IOC indicated reshuffling of the medals was unlikely. Having been satisfied with the proof of age received from the Chinese Gymnastics Association, the FIG ended the investigation on 1 October 2008, concluding that He and her teammates were eligible to compete.
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Competitive highlights
2012 National Championships Shanghai All-around 2 56.100 5 53.250 World Cup/Series Doha Uneven Bars 2 14.875 2 14.900 Floor Exercise 3 14.000 3 14.050 2011 World Championships Tokyo Team 3 172.820 3 230.370 All-Around 20 55.074 Uneven Bars 75 12.866 Balance Beam 9 14.575 Floor 33 13.633 World Cup/Series Ghent Uneven Bars 2 15.375 3 14.950 Balance Beam 15 13.125 Floor Exercise 8 12.050 8 13.300 National Championships Kunshan Team 2 222.000 All-around 5 54.650 7 55.450 2010 Asian Games Guangzhou Team 1 234.150 World Championships Rotterdam Team 3 174.781 2 233.778 All-around 2 59.998 4 58.099 Balance Beam 16 14.333 Uneven Bars 5 15.200 Floor Exercise 25 13.833 2009 National Games Jinan Team 4 164.675 4 217.550 All-Around 6 56.875 Uneven Bars 6 14.275 2008 World Cup/Series Final Madrid Floor Exercise 2 15.225 Uneven Bars 2 15.700 Olympic Games Beijing Team 1 188.900 1 248.275 All-Around 6 60.900 7 60.625 Floor Exercise 4 15.350 8 15.050 2007 World Championships Stuttgart All-Around 147 44.825 Floor Exercise 4 15.100 8 14.750 Team 2 183.450 2 241.175 Uneven Bars 16 15.375 World Cup/Series Shanghai Floor Exercise 1 15.225 Uneven Bars 1 16.100 Vault 3 14.412
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