Dong Fangxiao

Dong Fangxiao (Chinese董芳霄, Pinyin Dǒng Fangxiao; born 23 January 1986) is a Chinese gymnast.

Dong participated in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and won the bronze medal with the Chinese team in the team all-around women, but this was her revoked in April 2010.

On 26 February 2010 the International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG) announced after 16 -month investigation that Dong was at that time only 14 years old. Previously, she had the January 20, 1983 given as date of birth in order to demonstrate the minimum age requirement for gymnasts at the Olympic Games ( 16) are able. The dizziness flew on, when Dong had applied for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with their actual date of birth as a technical assistant. In December 2009, it came in the course of the investigation and a hearing the athlete in Lausanne, the seat of FIG.

The World Gymnastics Association demanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), depriving the bronze medal. At the same time, the FIG sanctions imposed for the first time falsification of age and stroked Dongs results in the 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin, from the World Cup season 1999/2000 and the World Cup 2000 final in Glasgow.