Shen Xue
As the center of winter sports in China, Harbin has hosted the 1996 Winter Asian Games and the 2009 Winter Universiade. Along these events, many famous winter sports athletes come from Harbin. Olympic medalists include short track star Wang Meng (six-time medalist), long track skater Zhang Hong (2014 Sochi, gold medal), and pairs figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo (2002 Salt Lake City and 2006 Turin bronze medals, and 2010 Vancouver, gold medal), Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, (2006 Turin, silver medal) and Pang Qing and Tong Jian. (2010 Vancouver, silver medal)