Name: LI Ning
Gender: M
Date of birth: September 8, 1963
Place of birth: Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Aunotomous Region
Height: 1.64m
Weight: 58kg
Sport: Gymnastics
Personal best: 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - 1st rings, floor exercise & pommel horse

Sports career:
Began gymnastics training at the age of eight. Entered the Guangxi team at 10. Chosen by the national team for intensified training in 1980.

High performances:
1981 World University Games - 1st floor exercise & pommel horse, 5th individual all-around
1982 World Cup - 1st floor exercise, horizontal bar, vaulting horse, pommel horse, rings & individual all-around (first gymnast to achieve such a feat in world gymnastics history)
1982 New Delhi Asian Games - 1st individual all-around, rings & team, 2nd parallel bars
1983 World Championships - 1st team, 2nd vaulting horse, 3rd floor exercise & rings
1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - 1st rings, floor exercise & pommel horse, 2nd vaulting horse & team, 3rd individual all-around
1985 World Championships - 1st rings, 2nd pommel horse, floor exercise & team
1986 Seoul Asian Games - 1st floor exercise, rings & individual all-around
1986 World Championships - 1st pommel horse, floor exercise & individual all-around

Reputed as the "Prince of Gymnastics".

Honours:
1980 - Awarded the title of Master of Sports
1983 & 1985-1987 - Selected one of National Top Ten Athletes for four times
1984 - Named Shock Worker of the New Long March by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China
1984 - Named Special-Class Model Worker by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Government
1986 - Awarded the title of International Master of Sports
1987 - Appointed Member of the IOC Athletes Commission
1994 - Voted one of 45 Sports Stars in 45 years since the founding of new China in 1949
1999 - Voted one of 50 Sports Stars in 50 years since the founding of new China in 1949
1999 - Selected one of Best Athletes of the Century in the national selection jointly organized by the Chinese Olympic Committee, Henry Fok Foundation and China Sports Press Association
1999 - Named one of Best Athletes of the Century by the International Sports Press Association
2000 - Elected into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame

At present:
Retired after the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and entered the business circles by joining the Jianlibao Group in Guangdong. Over the years he has achieved tremendous successes as a gymnast-turned-businessman, setting up an international gymnastics school in the United States and establishing the Li-Ning Sports Goods Company, whose products named after himself have been the official wear for Chinese sports delegations to many major world tournaments. Today the company, the most successful home-grown sporting goods enterprise in China, boasts some 600,000 stores-within-stores and over 2,000 sales outlets in 90 percent of mainland cities.