A multiple exposure photo captures Chinese athlete Zhang Chenglong's high bar performance at the World Cup Gymnastics Final at the Melbourne Arena, Australia, February 24, 2019. /VCG Photo
China has sent several world champions to compete at the upcoming 2019 FIG Individual Apparatus World Cup in Cottbus, Germany as the country looks to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The squad for the competition is made up of 30-year-old Olympic champion Zhang Chenglong, uneven bars world champion Fan Yilin, rings world champion Liu Yang and parallel bars world champion You Hao.
China's Fan Yilin in action during the National Gymnastics Championships in Zhaoqing, southern Guangdong Province, May 12, 2019. /VCG Photo
According to the qualification system for Tokyo 2020, each team can have four athletes, plus a maximum of two individual athletes who are not listed in the team event.
Eight Individual Apparatus World Cup competitions will be held between November 2018 and March 2020, with the three highest results per athlete per apparatus being taken into consideration.