Tan Xue

Tan Xue (Chinese谭 雪, Pinyin Tan Xue; born January 30, 1984 in Tianjin) is a Chinese saber fencer. In 2002 she was fencing world champion, 2004, she won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Career

In the World Fencing Championship in 2002 in Lisbon Tan Xue won the gold medal in saber individual. A year later, at the World Fencing Championship in 2003 in Havana, they were both in single as well as with the saber team second. In Saber singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Tan Xue won the silver medal. With the team it was subsequently at the World Fencing Championship in 2005 in Leipzig and at the Sixth World Fencing Championship in Turin in 2006 Seventh. In St. Petersburg, where the World Fencing Championships was held in 2007, Tan Xue was the saber - single second. With the team they finished fifth. 2008 Asia champion Tan Xue in Bangkok.

She was a member of the Chinese team for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and joined compete both in saber individual and with the saber team. In individual Tan Xue defeated in the Round of 32, the German Alexandra Bujdoso with 15:6 and could also survive to the next round. In the quarterfinals, but she then defeated the Russian Sofiya Velikaya with 9:15. With the team, she won silver, they were subject to the Ukraine in the finals as concise as possible with 44:45, where Olha Charlan scored only 22 points against the Chinese team.

In 2010 she again won the Asia Cup in Seoul.

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