Chinese beach volleyball player

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xu.Previous teammates Medal record

Xu Linyin (Simplified Chinese:徐 林胤, born 20 March 1986 in Shanghai) is a Chinese professional beach volleyball player.

Contents

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

Career

Nicknamed "Giant" because of his height, Xu Linyin stands 6 feet 7:inches tall. He headed into the 2008 Olympics as the #1 seed with his teammate Penggen Wu. They placed 5th in the FIVB Beach Volleyball Olympic Ranking, but were #1 seed because of FIVB regulations. Unfortunately they lost to the German pair of David Klemperer and Eric Koreng in the last 16.

On 14 June 2010, Xu Linyin and partner Wu Penggen 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 in Moscow. 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 Xu and Wu 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.

At the 2012 Olympics, he and Wu did not qualify out of the pool stages.

See also

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

References

External links

• Xu Linyin at the Beach Volleyball Database
• Xu Linyin at the FIVB beach volleyball database
• Xu Linyin at the International Olympic Committee
• Xu Linyin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)