Up and Coming: Zeng Siqi

This next gymnast is often considered the baby of the Chinese Team, but she has some big skills that are making her a very exciting prospect. Zeng Siqi was the All-Around Champion at the 2012 Asian Championships and a bronze medalist on floor and beam, as well as helping Team China to a nearly ten-point lead over North Korea for a gold medal. At the Chinese Individual Nationals earlier this year, she took first in All-Around and the beam final.

She is exciting to watch on all the apparatus, but especially on beam and floor. She has so much character and charm on floor that it just draws you into her routine. Plus, isn't her smile just the cutest?

As I mentioned, she has several big skills on beam, combined with beautiful choreography and execution. This is her silver-medal routine in the 2011 Chinese Nationals event finals. She placed second only to Sui Lu, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist on beam.

 



 

It was a very solid, clean routine, and had Sui Lu not had an extrodinarily beautiful routine, I think this little lady might have had a change at a gold.

 

Another beautiful routine from her was on floor in the team final of the 2011 Chinese Nationals:

 

 

 



As I mentioned she just as a way about here that draws you in, much like Jiang Yuyuan does. There were a few hiccups (steps on landings and a hop on one of them), but over all it was very good.

 

Since the Chinese team is traditionally weak on floor, I think Zeng Siqi stands a very good chance of becoming a mainstay on the team, not only on floor, but also in the all around. Compared to some of her teammates (namely Huang Huidan), her bars routine is a bit shaky, and while she is capable of a double-twisting Yurchenko, she has only been vaulting a full-twisting Yurchenko due to an ankle injury. I think if she can update those two events however, she could very well be China's star in the coming quad.