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Heilongjiang' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. "Heilongjiang" literally means Black Dragon River, which is the Chinese name for the Amur. The one-character abbreviation is 黑...
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figure skaterFigure skating is a Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
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Zhang DanZhang Dan is a Chinese pair skater. With her partner Zhang Hao, she is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist.-Biography:...
(they are unrelated).
Zhang Hao ' onMouseout='HidePop("74082")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Harbin">Harbin
' , is a sub-provincial city and the capital of the Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China. It lies on the southern bank of the Songhua River...
,
Heilongjiang' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. "Heilongjiang" literally means Black Dragon River, which is the Chinese name for the Amur. The one-character abbreviation is 黑...
,
ChinaThe People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...
) is a Chinese
figure skaterFigure skating is a Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
. He competes with
Zhang DanZhang Dan is a Chinese pair skater. With her partner Zhang Hao, she is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist.-Biography:...
(they are unrelated). They are the 2006 Olympic silver medalists.
Biography
Zhang Hao previously competed with Zhang Liyun. He teamed up with Zhang in 1997. (They are not related; Zhang is a very common Chinese name.) They immeidately had a lot of success on the junior circuit. They won two medals on the Junior Grand Prix in their first year on it and then placed 5th at the Junior Grand Prix Final. They also won the bronze medal at the 1999 Chinese national championships and the silver at the 2000 Chinese national championships.
In the 2000-2001 season, they won the Junior Grand Prix Final, placed third at nationals, and then won Junior Worlds. At the 2000 Junior Worlds, they performed a quadruple twist, the first quad twist ever performed at that event.
They stayed junior in the 2001-2002 season, winning the Junior Grand Prix Final yet again. They won the bronze medal at the 2002 Four Continents Championships and then went to the 2002 Olympics, where they placed 11th. After the Olympics, they went to their first Worlds and came in 9th.
In the 2002-2003 season, they did both Junior and senior Grand Prix, due to ISU rules that pairs can do both in one season. They won the Junior Grand Prix event in China, then performed well at both their Grand Prix events, placing 4th in both of them. They went to Junior Worlds and once again won it before going to Worlds and placing 6th.
Following that season, Zhang and Zhang became serious contenders. They consistently medaled at their Grand Prix events. They won the 2005 Four Continents Championships and then won the bronze at the 2005 Worlds.
Zhang and Zhang went into the 2006 Olympics as medal contenders. During their free skate, Zhang Dan had a bad fall on their attempted throw quadruple salchow, a jump that was not consistent. Zhang Dan suffered a bad injury, but chose to finish the program. Although the delay between the fall and the continuation of the program was longer than the ISU-proscribed 2 minutes, they were not automatically withdrawn because the referee waited before stopping the music and beginning the official 2 minute wait. Zhang regrouped and was able to finish the program. They won the silver medal, placing ahead of defending Olympic medalsts
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and Hongbo Zhao. At Worlds, they won the silver, behind
Pang QingPang Qing is a Chinese pairs skater. With partner Tong Jian, she is the 2006 World Champion, a four-time Four Continents champion and the 2008 Grand Prix Final Champion....
and
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In the 2006-2007 season, Zhang and Zhang placed first at Skate Canada, second at the NHK Trophy, and would go on to place third at the Grand Prix Final. They placed 5th at the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships later that season.
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| Skate America Skate America is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It is organized by the United States Figure Skating Association. The location changes yearly...
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| Junior Grand Prix, Italy The 2001–2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fifth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the Junior-level complement to the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters. Skaters...
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| Junior Grand Prix, Sweden The 2001–2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fifth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the Junior-level complement to the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters. Skaters...
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| Junior Grand Prix, Norway The 2000–2001 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the Junior-level complement to the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters. Skaters...
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| Junior Grand Prix, Japan The 1999–2000 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the third season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the Junior-level complement to the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters. Skaters...
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| Junior Grand Prix, Canada The 1999–2000 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the third season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It is the Junior-level complement to the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which is for Senior-level skaters. Skaters...
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