The Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) will send newly-crowned world champion teams to compete in the Asian Games in Doha next month.

 

The lineups announced by CGA on Tuesday are the same as in the 2006 world championships in Arhus last month except for teenager Han Bin replacing Li Ya in the women's squad.

 

China collected eight of the 14 gold medals, including both men's and women's team titles, in the 2006 championships.

 

Yang Wei, who earned two individual laurels as well as a team title with his teammates in Arhus, will spearhead the men's squad for the Doha Asiad. The women's lineup features Arhus worlds' best female gymnast Cheng Fei.

 

In Arhus she didn't only make herself a double world champion on vault and floor but also helped ther Chinese women take their first-ever team title in a world event.  

 

Li Ya, one of the original favorites, failed to enter the final of her specialty, the uneven bars, and was absent from the women's team final in the championships.

 

Squads:

 

Men's: Yang Wei, Xiao Qin, Liang Fuliang, Feng Jing, Chen Yibing, Zoukai, Dong Zhendong (Substitute);

 

Women's: Zhang Nan, Cheng Fei, Pang Panpan, Zhou Zhuoru, He Ning, Han Bin, Fan Ye (Substitute)

 

(Xinhua News Agency November 8, 2006)