Tan Xue
Tan Xue is a female Chinese fencer who won silver medals in the Sabre Individual at the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the Team Sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
She became world champion in 2002, defeating the former double world champion Yelena Jemayeva in the final, and won silver medals in both Individual and Team Sabre at the 2003 World Championship. She won the Fencing World Cup in the 2001–02 and the 2006–07 seasons.
She married fencer Wang Jingzhi in 2009.
Early life
On January 30, 1984, Tan Xue was born in an ordinary family in Tanggu District, Tianjin. When she was in elementary school, Tan Xue loved jumping around and was particularly fond of sports. In 1994, because Tan Xue was lively and active, coach Zhang Bo took a fancy to Tan Xue's athletic talent and was selected into the Tianjin Tanggu Amateur Sports School and began hurdle training. In 1994, Tan Xue won second place in the Tianjin municipal hurdle race.In 1998, the Tianjin Sports School Sports and Work Brigade came to Tan Xue's track and field team to select fencing members. Because Tan Xue was infatuated with the swordsman Zorro, he signed up and eventually entered the Tianjin Sports School Sports and Work Brigade branch, and changed to the Tianjin Fencing Team. Practiced fencing and started her career in women’s saber sports.