Her biggest accomplishment in gymnastics is winning the 2003 world balance beam title.

Fan Ye earned a 9.812 for that gold medal performance and has the distinction of having the highest scoring routine at an international elite competition in the 2001-2004 quad.

By then, and after two falls from teammate Li Ya on beam, it was too late and China ranked 7th that evening.

Fan also had disappointing results at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, but that same year, she won the most prestigious competition in China, the Chinese National Games.

There she delivered a solid and beautiful beam routine with even more difficulty than the one she used to become World Champion in 2003.