Name: Tian Liang
Gender: M
Date of birth: 27/08/79
Place of birth: Chongqing
Height: 172cm
Weight: 60kg
Status: Athlete
Education: University
Hobby: Cars
Registered with: Shaanxi
Sport: Diving
Personal best: 2000 Olympic Games – 1st platform
Sports career:
1987 Diver, Chongqing Sports School
1987 Sichuan Provincial Diving Team
1990 Shaanxi Provincial Team
1993 National Team
High performances:
1994 National Championships – 1st platform
1995 FINA Grand Prix (U.S.A.) – 1st synchronized platform
1995 National Inter-city Games – 1st platform
1995 Four-Nation Tournament – 1st platform
1995 World Cup – 1st team/mixed team, synchronized platform
1996 Olympic Games – 4th platform
1997 World Cup – 1st mixed team
1997 National Games – 2nd platform
1998 National Champions Tournament – 1st platform
1998 Bangkok Asian Games – 1st platform
1999/2000 World Cup – 1st platform/synchronized platform
2000 National Champions Tournament – 1st platform/synchronized platform
2000 Olympic Games – 1st platform
2001 World Championships – 1st platform/synchronized platform
2001 National Games – 1st platform
2002 Asian Games – 1st platform
2002 National Champions Tournament – 1st platform
2002 World Cup – 1st platform/synchronized platform
2002 National Championships – 1st platform
2003 World Championships – 3rd platform
2004 FINA Grand Prix (China) – 1st platform
2004 World Cup – 1st platform/synchronized platform
2004 Olympic Games – 1st synchro. platform; 3rd platform
Also known as a “Sunny Boy”.
Tian Liang is a male Chinese former diver. In the Summer Olympics 2004, he won the bronze medal in the 10 m platform event and a gold medal in the synchronised platform event. Tian was also the previous 10 m platform Olympics champion, winning gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Since then, he and another gold medal winner, Guo Jingjing, often appeared at the public activities. They were better known in unison as Liang Jingjing (亮晶晶, the complex name of Tian and Guo, synonymous with the word for ‘sparkling’).
After belting his multiple Olympic medals, Tian Liang received numerous invitations to lend his name and face to corporate promotions. His resulting involvement in these activities, and perhaps other disputes with the national team, have led the national team to fire him after repeated warnings. In spite of this, however, Tian refused to cease his diving training but continued to practice with a provincial team. Not only did he maintain his diving standard, he furthermore managed to safeguard a medal at the following Chinese National Games. Although the public advocated his restoration to the national team following this event, the government did not concede. Tian has since then split his schedule between diving training and public activities. Finally on March 25, 2007, Tian announced his retirement as a diver.