Chinese beach volleyball player

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.

Wu Penggen (Simplified Chinese:吴 鹏根, born 7 May 1982) is a male Chinese professional beach volleyball player.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 See also
• 3 References
• 4 External links

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 *le in Moscow, Russia. This was the first time China won the *le 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.

See also

• China at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Volleyball
• Beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
• China at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

External links

• Olympic data base - Wu Penggen - NetEase
• Wu Penggen at the FIVB beach volleyball database
• Wu Penggen at the Beach Volleyball Database
• Wu Penggen at the International Olympic Committee
• Wu Penggen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)