Huang Qun (gymnast)

Huang Qun
黄群
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	China
Medal record Representing China Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Team Asian Games 1986 Seoul Team 1986 Seoul Uneven Bars 1986 Seoul All-around 1986 Seoul Balance Beam

Huang Qun (simplified Chinese: 黄群; traditional Chinese: 黃群; pinyin: Huáng Qún) is a Chinese former artistic gymnast. Huang competed at 1984 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the women's team competition. She also won four medals, two gold and two silver, at the 1986 Asian Games.

Career

Huang's year of birth has been stated differently in different sources. A local article gives her age as 8 in 1976, and in a 1981 article in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, she was stated to be 13 years old, both of which suggest she was born in 1968. However, her official competition age has her a year younger, being born in 1969.

She began gymnastics at age 6 and was selected for the national team in 1979.

Huang competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal with the Chinese team and placed 21st in the all-around. The next year, she placed 15th at the 1985 World Championships and qualified for the vault final, where she finished in 4th.

In 1986, she competed at the 1986 Asian Games. There, she won silver in the all-around. She also won gold with the Chinese team, and in the apparatus finals, she won another gold on uneven bars and silver on the balance beam.