Tong Jian

Tong Jian (Chinese佟 健, Pinyin Tong Jiàn, born August 15, 1979 in Harbin ) is a Chinese figure skater who starts in pair skating.

Tong was born in Harbin, the center of Chinese figure skating sport. He began at the age of six years with the figure skating, first as individual runners and because of his of him as too low assessed jump assets as ice dancers. In 1993 he moved to the pair of running because he found it interesting and saw no international perspective in ice dancing.

His first figure skating partner was Zhang Yue. 1993 brought him his coach Yao Bin, 1980, the first Chinese participants was together with his partner Luan Bo at the World Championships in the pairs figure skating, with Pang Qing together. When Yao went to Beijing, Pang and Tong remained until 1997, when he returned, without a coach. As a junior Pang / Tong made ​​for little stir. The Junior World Championships from 1997 to 1999, they finished on the fourteenth, ninth and eighth place. In 1999 she switched to the seniors and made ​​their debut at the World Championships and Four Continents Championships, where they placed themselves as Fourteenth or Fifth. In 2000, they were Chinese pair skating champions for the first time.

2002 won Pang / Tong the gold medal at the Four Continents Championships in Jeonju, and thus their first major international title. In her first Olympic Games were in 2002 in Salt Lake City Ninth. 2004 Pang and Tong for the second time Chinese Champion and Four Continents champion. At the World Championships in Dortmund, they won bronze behind the Russians Tatiana and Maxim Marinin Totmjanina and their compatriots Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo her first World Cup medal.

In her second Olympic Games missed Pang / Tong in Turin in 2006 as a fourth medal extremely scarce. They lacked 0.24 points to their compatriots Shen / Zhao. Since their other compatriots Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang won the silver medal, Pang / Tong was only the third best Chinese couple. This changed already in the subsequent World Cup in Calgary. Shen and Zhao were there not present and Zhang / Zhang defeat they could, so that she first became world champions.

Your World Cup title they could not defend it as the reigning Chinese champion but in the year. They were subject to significantly Shen and Zhao and had to settle for the silver medal. 2008 and 2009 Pang / Tong won their third and fourth Four Continents Championship and were thus the sole record holder in this tournament, but missed the podium at the World Championships. In December 2008, they had won for the first time the Grand Prix Final.

In her third Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010 they achieved in the freestyle with 141, 81 points a new world record points and won the silver medal behind their returning countrymen Shen and Zhao. Following the resignation of Shen / Zhao Pang / Tong had no problems in Turin to win her second gold medal at the world championships.

In February 2011, Pang / Tong won in Taipei for the fifth time in her career, the Four Continents Championship. At the World Championships in Moscow, she won the short program, had to for errors in the free skate but with the bronze medal behind Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy and the newly formed Russian pair Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov content.

In the season 2011/12 Pang and Tong started only at the world championships in Nice. There they underwent numerous errors and thus they missed a medal in fourth.

Results

Pair of running

( with Pang Qing )

Winter Olympic Games 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2006 World Figure Skating Championships 2007 World Figure Skating Championships 2010 World Figure Skating Championships 2011 World Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Single skating 1980 World Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships 1999 World Figure Skating Championships Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics Zhang Dan Zhang Hao 2012 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 2000 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 2003 World Figure Skating Championships 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2008 World Figure Skating Championships 2009 World Figure Skating Championships 2013 World Figure Skating Championships Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of Russia NHK Trophy Cup of China International Skating Union Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer David Pelletier Sui Wenjing Han Cong Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford
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