Gao Yumeng (; born April 13, 2001) is a Chinese pair skater. With her skating partner, Xie Zhong, she is the 2017 World Junior bronze medalist and 2017 Chinese national bronze medalist on the senior level.
Early career Gao began learning to skate in 2008. During the 2015–2016 season, she competed in partnership with Li Bowen. Competing on the senior level, they finished 5th at the 2016 Chinese Championships. They placed 7th at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, held in February in Hamar, Norway, and 13th at the 2016 World Junior Championships, held in March in Debrecen, Hungary. The pair was coached by Luan Bo, Song Lun, and Li Yinwei in Harbin, China.
Partnership with Xie Gao and Xie Zhong are coached by Zhao Hongbo in Beijing.
2016–2017 season Making their international debut as a pair, they placed 5th at a Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in early September 2016 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. They had the same result at their second JGP assignment, in Saransk, Russia. In December, they won the bronze medal competing as seniors at the Chinese Championships.
In March 2017, Gao/Xie won the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in Taipei, having ranked second in the short program and third in the free skate.
2017–2018 season Gao/Xie placed 4th at JGP Poland and 2nd at JGP Croatia, qualifying for the Junior Grand Prix Final (JGPF). They finished 4th at both JGPF and World Junior Championships. They split at the end of this season.
Programs
With Xie Season Short program Free skating 2017–2018 Chicago (soundtrack) Turning Page 2016–2017 Cavatina Crunchy Granola Suite
With Li Season Short program Free skating 2015–2016 Happy Paradise Tarantella
Competitive highlights GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Xie International Event 2016–17 2017–18 Junior Worlds 3rd 4th Final 4th Czech Rep. 5th Russia 5th Croatia 2nd Poland 4th National Chinese Champ. 3rd
With Li International Event 2015–16 Junior Worlds 13th Youth Olympics 7th National Chinese Champ. 5th Team events Youth Olympics 3rd T 6th P T = Team result; P = Personal resultMedals awarded for team result only.
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