Tan Xue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Tianjin | 30 January 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weapon | sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | ranking (archive) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tan Xue (simplified Chinese: 谭雪; traditional Chinese: 譚雪; pinyin: Tán Xuě; born January 30, 1984, in Tianjin) 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.[1][2]
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.[citation needed] She won the Fencing World Cup in the 2001–02 and the 2006–07 seasons.
She married fencer Wang Jingzhi in 2009.[3]