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{{Short description|Chinese gymnast}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Lu (surname 陆)|Lu]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{for|the Northern Wei official|Buliugu Li}}
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| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1976|8|30}}
| birth_place     = [[Changsha, Hunan]], [[China]]
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| height          = 4 ft 11 in
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| assistcoach     = Black Hills Gymnastics
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{{MedalSport | Women's [[Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics|artistic gymnastics]] }}
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{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars|Uneven bars]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam|Balance beam]] }}
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'''Lu Li''' ({{zh|s=陆莉|p=Lù Lì}}; born August 30, 1976) is a Chinese gymnast.

Lu made the Chinese national team in late 1991. However, liver illness almost prevented her from competing in the [[Olympic Games]]. In April 1992, just a few months before the Barcelona Games, she made her international debut at the [[World Championships]] in Paris, where her highly innovative [[uneven bars]] routine caught the attention of the gymnastics world.

Lu is best known for her gold medal on the [[uneven bars]] in the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]]. She won this with a perfect 10, which she achieved the same night as [[Lavinia Miloșovici]] also scored a perfect 10. Lu Li and Lavinia Miloșovici remain the last two people to score perfect 10s in Olympic competition to date. Lu Li also won a silver on the [[balance beam|beam]] in the same games (tied with American [[Shannon Miller]] with a score of 9.912). Lu had troubles on her beam performance in the all-round competition, and placed a disappointing 34th.

Lu competed in the [[1993 Chinese National Games]] and won the uneven bars title (tied with Luo Li, who would go on to win the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane). She retired shortly thereafter.

In 2000, Lu Li moved to [[California]] and was a coach there. She married Kim David Gussenhoven and has a son named JD. She moved to [[North Carolina]] in 2007, still as a coach. In 2009, Lu Li moved to [[Stockton, California|Stockton]], [[California]] and coached at [[Champion Gymnastics Academy]]. On September 1, 2009, Li, Kim, and JD moved to Washington and she was hired to coach at [[Emerald City Gymnastics]] in [[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]]. Recently, she has started coaching gymnasts in [[Gig Harbor]].<ref name="reporter">[http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/red/lifestyle/59639467.html Chinese Olympic gold medalist named new coach at Emerald City Gymnastics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004094530/http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/red/lifestyle/59639467.html |date=2011-10-04 }}, Redmond Reporter.</ref> Li then coached at Tech Gymnastics (formerly Eastside Gymnastics Academy) in Woodinville, WA. Currently Li coaches at Black Hills Gymnastics in Lacey, WA. 

==References==
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{{Footer Olympic Champions - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Uneven Bars}}

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