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Pang Qing

Pang Qing
WC 2010 Tong Jian and Pang Qing.jpg
Personal information
Full name Pang Qing
Country represented  China
Born (1979-12-24) December 24, 1979 (age 37)
Harbin
Home town Harbin
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Partner Tong Jian
Coach Yao Bin
Liu Wei
Former coach Cong Wenyi
Choreographer Lori Nichol
David Wilson
Former choreographer Renée Roca
Shae-Lynn Bourne
Sarah Kawahara
Nikolai Morozov
Skating club Harbin Skating Club
Began skating 1986
Retired March 28, 2015
World standing 4 (As of 13 February 2014)
Season's bests 3 (2010–2011)
2 (2009–2010)
2 (2008–2009)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 213.98
2013 Grand Prix Final
Short program 75.40
2013 Grand Prix Final
Free skate 141.81
2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic medal record
Representing  China
Pair's Figure skating
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver Pairs

Pang Qing (simplified Chinese: 庞清; traditional Chinese: 龐清; pinyin: Páng Qīng; born December 24, 1979 in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese pair skater. With partner Tong Jian, she is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, the 2006 and 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (2002, 2004, 2008, 2009 & 2011) and the 2008 Grand Prix Final Champion.

Pang was born in Harbin, the home of Chinese pair skating. She began skating at age six. She originally competed as a single skater. In 1993, coach Yao Bin teamed her up with Tong and they have been skating together ever since.

When Yao moved to Beijing, Pang and Tong trained without a coach until 1997, when they began training under Yao again.

Pang and Tong did not have a strong junior career, perhaps due to the fact that the Junior Grand Prix did not exist when they were skating at the junior level. They placed 14th, 9th, and 8th at the World Junior Championships between 1997 and 1999. After that, they went senior.

Pang and Tong won the silver medal at the 1997 Chinese national championships, but did not represent China at the World Championships until 1999. They are the 2000 Chinese national champions. At their first major senior international, the 1999 Four Continents Championships (the first Four Continents ever held), they placed 5th. They then went to their first Worlds, where they placed 14th.


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