Bai Yawen
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| Full name | 白雅雯 (Bai Yawen) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 China | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 September 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Nanning, Guangxi, China | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Li Zheng (李政), Sun Haiou (孙海欧) | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bai Yawen (Chinese: 白雅雯) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 World balance beam silver medalist. She is also the 2014 World team silver medalist.
2014
2014 was Bai Yawen's first year as a senior gymnast.
At the Chinese National Championships in May, she won the silver on Balance Beam. Later that year, Bai was selected to represent China at the Asian Games in Incheon where she and her teammates Yao Jinnan, Shang Chunsong, Huang Huidan, Tan Jiaxin, and Chen Siyi won team gold. Bai also competed at the World Championships in Nanning, where the Chinese team won the silver medal behind the United States. Despite individually qualifying to the Balance Beam Final, Bai did not compete in Team Finals. However, she later won the silver medal in the Balance Beam Final behind Simone Biles of the United States and ahead of then-reigning World Champion Aliya Mustafina of Russia.
2015
In February 2015, Yawen competed at the 2015 WOGA Classic, finishing eighth all-around.[1]
Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2014 | National Championships | 10th | 2nd | 7th | |||
| Asian Games | 1st | 7th | |||||
| World Championships | 2nd | 2nd | |||||
| 2015 | WOGA Classic | 8th | |||||
| National Championships | 9th | 8th |