Li Chengjiang

Li Chengjiang
Li Chengjiang during his free skate at Skate Canada 2003
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	April 28, 1979
place of birth	Changchun
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Changchun Club
Trainer	Lijie Yu, Haijun Gao
choreographer	Wei Liu, Gorsha Sur
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
VKM medals 1 × 3 × 1 ×
Four continents championships silver Halifax 1999 Men's silver Osaka 2000 Men's gold Salt Lake City 2001 Men's bronze Beijing 2003 Men's silver Gangneung 2005 Men's
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 1  Grand Prix competitions 0 3 3

Li Chengjiang ( Chinese  李成江 , Pinyin Lǐ Chéngjiāng ; born April 28, 1979 in Changchun , Jilin ) is a former Chinese figure skater who started in a single run . He is the 2001 four continents champion .

Career

Li started figure skating at the age of five. He was inspired by Chen Lu , the 1995 world champion and two-time bronze medal winner at the Winter Olympics , who he watched in the local ice rink. Li's parents were also ice skaters and now work as trainers.

Li is the first Chinese to win an ISU competition ( Four Continents Championships 2001).

At the World Figure Skating Championships in Washington in 2003 , he narrowly missed a medal in fourth. It was the best placing of a male Chinese figure skater in the singles. In 2000 , 2002 and 2005 he was fifth at the World Championships .

He participated in the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 and in Turin in 2006 , finishing them in 9th and 16th place.

The six-time Chinese champion competed for four-time toe loops and four-time salchows . His trainer was Haijun Gao , and his choreographers Liu Wei and Lori Nichol . His personal best is 210.94 points, which he achieved at the 2003 Cup of Russia .

Today he works as a trainer for individual runners. The athletes Li Zijun and Zhang Kexin, who are supervised by Li, are the first Chinese women since Chen Lu to achieve places in the top ten in this discipline at world championships.

Results

Competition / year	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
winter Olympics						9.				16.
World championships				5.	7th	5.	4th	10.	5.	9.		23.
Four continents championships			2.	2.	1.		3.		2.			6th	11.
Junior World Championships	12.	7th
Chinese championships	2.	1.	1.	2.	1.	1.		1.			1.	3.

Web links

• Li Chengjiang in the database of the International Skating Union (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Li Zijun's ISU profile. Retrieved June 21, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Zhan Kexin's ISU profile. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .