Name Wu Penggen Role Beach Volleyball Player | Height 2.00 m Weight 95 kg | |
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Olympic medals Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament Similar People Sascha Heyer, Todd Rogers, Patrick Heuscher, Eric Koreng, David Klemperer | ||
Wu Penggen (born 7 May 1982) is a male Chinese professional beach volleyball player.
Career
He and partner Xu Linyin competed in the beach volleyball event at the 2008 Summer Olympics where they finished a respectable 5th place overall.
On 14 June 2010, Wu Penggen and Xu Linyin bested the Olympic Champions from USA Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser 21-17, 17-21 and 17-15 to win the Gold at the FIVB World Tour title in Moscow, Russia. This was the first time China won the title in the men's event in the 24-year history of the international Beach Volleyball circuit.
The duo of Wu and Xu continued their extraordinary performance with a second Gold on the FIVB World Tour in Marseille, France on 25 July 2010, and ended the season ranked 4th overall on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings.