Li Yuejiu
{{short description|Chinese artistic gymnast}}
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| native_name = 李 月久
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|07|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Yingkou, Liaoning, China
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| spouse = Wu Jiani
| discipline = MAG
| country = China
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{{MedalSport|Men's artistic gymnastics}}
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|World Championships|2|0|1
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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver|1984 Los Angeles|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|1981 Moscow|Floor}}
{{MedalGold|1983 Budapest|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|1981 Moscow|Team}}
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Li Yuejiu ({{zh|c=李月久 |p=Lǐ Yuèjiǔ}}; born July 4, 1957) is a male Chinese former gymnast.[http://data.star.sports.cn/person_en.php?id=6340 Chinese Athletes Database: Li Yuejiu], Chinese Olympic Committee
Li was born in Liaoning Province. He competed at the 1984 Olympic Games, and won a silver medal in the Men's Team competition.{{cite Sports-Reference}} He was China's first World Champion in floor exercise in 1981. Li retired in October 1984. He went on to study in Canada, and became a coach for the Canadian national gymnastic team. He married in 1986. Later, he and his wife coached in Las Vegas in the United States.
He was the coordinator of the 2008 Chinese men's and women's Olympic teams and led both teams to an Olympic gold medal, as well as the 2006 World Championship team title.
Li's wife is Wu Jiani, also a famed Chinese gymnast. One of their daughters is Anna Li, who competed for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team during the 2007 – 2010 seasons at the same Pauley Pavilion where her parents won their Olympic medals.{{cite web|url=http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/w-gym/mtt/li_anna00.html |title=Anna Li|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323121659/http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/w-gym/mtt/li_anna00.html |archivedate=March 23, 2012|publisher=UCLA Bruins|date=April 2010}} Following the Visa Championships and two selection camps at the Karolyi Ranch in New Waverly, Texas, Anna Li was named to the U.S. 2011 World Championship Team.
Li and Wu were the coaches for World Silver Medalist Mackenzie Caquatto from 2004. In April 2009, they opened Legacy Elite Gymnastics in Carol Stream, Illinois.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/12/01/families-bend-over-backward-for-gymnasts/|work=Chicago Tribune|title=Families bend over backwards for gymnasts|date= December 1, 2010}}
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Category:Chinese male artistic gymnasts
Category:Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Category:Olympic gymnasts for China
Category:Olympic silver medalists for China
Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Category:Gymnasts at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Asian Games medalists in gymnastics
Category:Asian Games gold medalists for China
Category:Asian Games silver medalists for China
Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Category:Gymnasts at the 1978 Asian Games
Category:Gymnasts at the 1982 Asian Games
Category:Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games
Category:Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Category:Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics
Category:FISU World University Games silver medalists for China
Category:Gymnasts from Liaoning
Category:Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Category:20th-century Chinese sportsmen
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