Laura Zeng
| Laura Zeng | |
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| Full name | Laura Yihan Zeng |
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
October 14, 1999 Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Hometown | Libertyville, Illinois |
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
| Club | North Shore Rhythmics |
| Head coach(es) | Natalia Klimouk |
| Assistant coach(es) | Angelina Yovcheva |
| World ranking |
17 (2016 Season) 8 (2015 Season) |
| Laura Zeng | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 曾昳晗 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 曾昳晗 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zēng Yìhán |
Laura Yihan Zeng (born October 14, 1999) is an American individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2015 Pan American Games All-around champion and the 2014 Youth Olympic all-around bronze medalist. At the national level, she is the-two time (2016, 2015) U.S. national champion and two-time (2014, 2013) U.S. junior national champion.
Laura Zeng was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Libertyville, Illinois where she attends Libertyville High School. After first studying Chinese dancing, Zeng started rhythmic gymnastics at age 7 after a friend told her about it. Her older sister, Yecca Zeng (曾曄昕) is a fashion designer. Her favorite motto is: "Work hard and work smart". Her favorite rhythmic gymnast is three-times World All-around champion Yana Kudryavtseva.
Zeng appeared in international competitions in 2012, she won the all-around silver at the 2012 Junior Pacific Rim Championships behind Canada's Patricia Bezzoubenko and won bronze in all-around at the 2012 Junior World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2013, Zeng competed at the Gymnastik Schmiden International winning gold in all-around, hoop, clubs, ribbon and bronze in ball. She also won bronze medal as one-person team at junior World Cup at Lisbon. She won her first junior title at the 2013 US Junior National championships.
In 2014, Zeng started her season competing at the 2014 Rhythmic Challenge winning the all-around and the event finals. She competed at the World Cup series in Lisboa, Pesaro and Minsk, she won numerous bronze and silver medals in the all-around,event finals and team competitions. At the 2014 Junior Pan American Championships, Zeng placed 1st (all-around, hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon); Zeng defended her junior title at the 2014 US Junior National championships placing 1st (all-around, hoop, ball), 2nd (clubs), 3rd (ribbon). Zeng was selected as the representative of United States at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, she placed second in the qualification and went on to take the all-around bronze in the finals with a total score of 56.750, just two hundredths behind Belarus’ Mariya Trubach who took the silver medal. Zeng’s medal marks the first rhythmic gymnastics medal for the U.S. at an Olympic or Youth Olympic Games.
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