Ling Jie (born October 22, 1982) is a retired Chinese artistic gymnast. She was the 1999 World Champion on the balance beam, the 2000 Chinese all-around national champion, and the silver medalist on the uneven bars at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Ling was also a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2000 Olympics, but the medal was stripped by the IOC in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members, Dong Fangxiao, was found to be underage during the competition. In March 2012, the 1999 World Championship Team Bronze was forfeited by China and given to Ukraine in light of the same information.

Ling Jie

She is the innovator of a skill on the uneven bars that bears her name in the Code of Points: the "Ling," a full pirouetting front giant starting and ending in the inverted grip.

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1982 births

Living people

Chinese female artistic gymnasts

World champion gymnasts

Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medalists for China

Olympic medalists in gymnastics

Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals

Gymnasts from Hunan

People from Hengyang

Asian Games medalists in gymnastics

Gymnasts at the 1998 Asian Games

Olympic gymnasts for China

Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Asian Games gold medalists for China

Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games

Universiade medalists in gymnastics

FISU World University Games gold medalists for China

Universiade silver medalists for China

21st-century Chinese women

Ling Jie