Han Xiaopeng

Han Xiaopeng
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	December 13, 1983
place of birth	Pei
size	173 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	Aerials
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Aerials  Freestyle Skiing World Championships gold 2007 Madonna di Campiglio Aerials  Winter Asian Games gold Changchun 2007 Aerials
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup August 12, 2000  Overall World Cup 11th (2004/05)  Aerials World Cup 3. (2004/2005)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Aerials 0 5 4th
last change: March 1, 2011

Han Xiaopeng ( Chinese  韩晓鹏 , Pinyin Hán Xiǎopéng ; born December 13, 1983 in Pei , Jiangsu ) is a Chinese freestyle skier who specializes in aerials (jumping). In 2006 he became Olympic champion, in 2007 world champion.

biography

On August 12, 2000, Han took part in a World Cup competition for the first time in Mount Buller and reached 16th place. In his first and second seasons he was only used sporadically. At the 2002 Winter Olympics , he jumped to 24th place. The breakthrough to the top of the world he made in the 2002/03 World Cup season with the first podium finish he achieved in Lake Placid .

In the 2004/05 World Cup season, Han came second twice and third once, placing him third in the World Cup ranking. Another podium followed in the 2005/06 season. He celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 2006 Winter Olympics when he unexpectedly won the gold medal and thus became the first Chinese Olympic champion at the Winter Games.

2006/07 Han achieved another podium in the World Cup. After winning the 2007 Asian Winter Games in Changchun , he won the gold medal again at the 2007 World Cup in Madonna di Campiglio . He had become Olympic champion and world champion without ever having won a World Cup competition. Also in the following 2007/08 season he narrowly missed a World Cup victory with three podium places.

The 2008/09 season had to be canceled due to an injury. With the exception of a fifth place in December 2009, there have been no top placements since then.

successes

Olympic games

• 2002 Salt Lake City : 24th Aerials
• 2006 Turin : 1st Aerials
• 2010 Vancouver : 21st Aerials

World championships

• 2003 Deer Valley : 29th Aerials
• 2005 Ruka : 20th Aerials
• 2007 Madonna di Campiglio : 1st Aerials

World cup

• 5 second places, 4 third places
• 2004/05 season : 3rd Aerials World Cup
• 2005/06 season : 8th Aerials World Cup
• 2006/07 season : 6th Aerials World Cup
• 2007/08 season : 5th Aerials World Cup

More Achievements

• Winter Asian Games 2007 : 1. Aerials
• 2 wins in the European Cup
• 1 Chinese championship title (2003)

Web links

• Han Xiaopeng in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Han Xiaopeng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Han is the family name here, Xiaopeng is the first name.