Lou Yun

Lou Yun medal table
Apparatus gymnast
People's Republic of China
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1984	Horse jump
gold	1988	Horse jump
silver	1984	Floor exercise
silver	1984	Team all-around
bronze	1988	Floor exercise

Lou Yun ( Chinese  樓 雲  /  楼 云 , Pinyin Lóu Yún ; born June 23, 1964 in Hangzhou ) is a former Chinese gymnast .

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he won the gold medal in horse jumping as well as a silver medal in floor exercise and in team all-around . Four years later, at the 1988 Games in Seoul , he won again in the horse jump, in floor exercise he took third place. He became the first athlete in his home country to become Olympic champion in two consecutive games.

At world championships he won a total of four titles with successes in team all-around and parallel bars and in 1987 in floor exercise and horse jumping. In addition, he won a bronze medal in the individual all-around competition at the world championships in 1983, a silver medal in the team all-around competition and in the horse jump in 1985 and also a silver medal in the team all-around competition in 1987.

Various gymnastics elements, such as a handstand flip with a straight forward somersault and a one and a half turn in the horse jump as well as a double somersault sideways in the floor exercise, are named after him. He retired in 1990 and moved to the United States five years later , where he works as a businessman.

Web links

• Lou Yun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gymn Forum: Lou Yun Biography Competition balance on Gymn-forum.net (English)