China at the 1992 Summer Olympics

China at the 1992 Summer Olympics
IOC code	CHN
NOC	Chinese Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.cn (in Chinese and English)
in Barcelona
Competitors	244 (117 men and 127 women) in 23 sports
Flag bearer	Song Ligang
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 16 Silver 22 Bronze 16 Total 54
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The People's Republic of China competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 244 competitors, 117 men and 127 women, took part in 144 events in 23 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Swimming	4	5	0	9
Table tennis	3	2	1	6
Diving	3	1	1	5
Gymnastics	2	4	2	8
Shooting	2	2	0	4
Athletics	1	1	2	4
Judo	1	0	2	3
Weightlifting	0	2	2	4
Badminton	0	1	4	5
Archery	0	1	0	1
Basketball	0	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	0	1
Sailing	0	1	0	1
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Wrestling	0	0	1	1
Total	16	22	16	54

After the olympics, the name "Five Golden Flowers" was given to the five medalist swimmers Yang Wenyi (50 meter Freestyle champion), Zhuang Yong (100 meter Freestyle champion), Lin Li (200 meter Individual Medley champion), Qian Hong (100 meter Butterfly champion) and Wang Xiaohong (200 meter Butterfly silver medalist).^[2]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Zhuang Yong	Swimming	Women's 100 metre freestyle	26 July
Gold	Fu Mingxia	Diving	Women's 10 metre platform	27 July
Gold	Zhuang Xiaoyan	Judo	Women's +72 kg	27 July
Gold	Wang Yifu	Shooting	Men's 10 metre air pistol	28 July
Gold	Zhang Shan	Shooting	Skeet	28 July
Gold	Qian Hong	Swimming	Women's 100 metre butterfly	29 July
Gold	Lin Li	Swimming	Women's 200 metre individual medley	30 July
Gold	Yang Wenyi	Swimming	Women's 50 metre freestyle	31 July
Gold	Lu Li	Gymnastics	Women's uneven bars	1 August
Gold	Gao Min	Diving	Women's 3 metre springboard	2 August
Gold	Li Xiaoshuang	Gymnastics	Men's floor	2 August
Gold	Deng Yaping Qiao Hong	Table tennis	Women's doubles	3 August
Gold	Sun Shuwei	Diving	Men's 10 metre platform	3 August
Gold	Chen Yueling	Athletics	Women's 10 kilometres walk	3 August
Gold	Lu Lin Wang Tao	Table tennis	Men's doubles	4 August
Gold	Deng Yaping	Table tennis	Women's singles	5 August
Silver	Wang Yifu	Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol	26 July
Silver	Lin Li	Swimming	Women's 400 metre individual medley	26 July
Silver	Lin Qisheng	Weightlifting	Men's 52 kg	26 July
Silver	Li Duihong	Shooting	Women's 25 metre pistol	27 July
Silver	Lin Li	Swimming	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	27 July
Silver	Liu Shoubin	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	27 July
Silver	Le Jingyi Lu Bin Yang Wenyi Zhao Kun Zhuang Yong	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	28 July
Silver	Tan Liangde	Diving	Men's 3 metre springboard	29 July
Silver	Guo Linyao Li Chunyang Li Dashuang Li Ge Li Jing Li Xiaoshuang	Gymnastics	Men's artistic team all-around	29 July
Silver	Wang Huifeng	Fencing	Women's foil	30 July
Silver	Wang Xiaohong	Swimming	Women's 200 metre butterfly	31 July
Silver	Zhuang Yong	Swimming	Women's 50 metre freestyle	31 July
Silver	Lu Li	Gymnastics	Women's balance beam	1 August
Silver	Zhang Xiaodong	Sailing	Women's Lechner A-390	2 August
Silver	Li Jing	Gymnastics	Men's rings	2 August
Silver	Li Jing	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	2 August
Silver	Chen Zihe Jun Gao	Table tennis	Women's doubles	3 August
Silver	Ma Xiangjun Wang Xiaozhu Wang Hong	Archery	Women's team	4 August
Silver	Guan Weizhen Nong Qunhua	Badminton	Women's doubles	4 August
Silver	Qiao Hong	Table tennis	Women's singles	5 August
Silver	Huang Zhihong	Athletics	Women's shot put	7 August
Silver	China women's national basketball team Cong Xuedi He Jun Li Dongmei Li Xin Liu Jun Liu Qing Peng Ping Wang Fang Zhan Shuping Zheng Dongmei Zheng Haixia	Basketball	Women's tournament	7 August
Bronze	Luo Jianming	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	27 July
Bronze	He Yingqiang	Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg	28 July
Bronze	Sheng Zetian	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg	30 July
Bronze	Zhang Di	Judo	Women's 61 kg	30 July
Bronze	Gu Xiaoli Lu Huali	Rowing	Women's double sculls	1 August
Bronze	Li Zhongyun	Judo	Women's 52 kg	1 August
Bronze	Li Xiaoshuang	Gymnastics	Men's rings	2 August
Bronze	Guo Linyao	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	2 August
Bronze	Xiong Ni	Diving	Men's 10 metre platform	3 August
Bronze	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Badminton	Men's doubles	3 August
Bronze	Huang Hua	Badminton	Women's singles	3 August
Bronze	Tang Jiuhong	Badminton	Women's singles	3 August
Bronze	Lin Yanfen Yao Fen	Badminton	Women's doubles	3 August
Bronze	Li Chunxiu	Athletics	Women's 10 kilometres walk	3 August
Bronze	Ma Wenge	Table tennis	Men's singles	5 August
Bronze	Qu Yunxia	Athletics	Women's 1500 metres	8 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Athletics	11	22	33
Badminton	7	6	13
Basketball	12	11	23
Boxing	4	–	4
Canoeing	0	4	4
Cycling	4	2	6
Diving	4	4	8
Fencing	10	5	15
Gymnastics	6	8	14
Judo	4	6	10
Modern pentathlon	1	–	1
Rowing	9	13	22
Sailing	1	2	3
Shooting	13	7	20
Swimming	4	12	16
Synchronized swimming	–	3	3
Table tennis	4	4	8
Tennis	2	3	5
Volleyball	0	12	12
Weightlifting	10	–	10
Wrestling	8	–	8
Total	117	127	244

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The People's Republic of China sent three men and three women to Barcelona for archery. Just as in 1984, the women were the more successful squad, winning the team silver. All three qualified for the elimination rounds, with one falling in the first round, another dropping in the second, and Wang Xiaozhu making it all the way to the semifinals before being defeated. In contrast, the men lost their first team match and only one qualified for individual eliminations.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Wang Xiaozhu - bronze medal match, 4th place (3-2)
• Ma Xiangjun - round of 16, 12th place (1-1)
• Wang Hong - round of 32, 31st place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Fu Shengjun - round of 32, 29th place (0-1)
• Hao Wei - ranking round, 51st place (0-0)
• Liang Qiang - ranking round, 58th place (0-0)

Women's Team Competition

• Wang, Ma, and Wang - final, silver medal (3-1)

Men's Team Competition

• Fu, Hao, and Liang - round of 16, 12th place (0-1)

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's 110 metres Hurdles

• Li Tong

Men's 20 km Walk

• Chen Shaoguo — 1:24:06 (→ 5th place)
• Li Mingcai — DNF (→ no ranking)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Li Mingcai — did not start (→ no ranking)

Men's Long Jump

• Huang Geng
  • Qualification — 8.22 m
  • Final — 7.87 m (→ 8th place)
• Chen Zunrong
  • Qualification — 7.93 m
  • Final — 7.75 m (→ 10th place)

Men's Triple Jump

• Zou Sixin
  • Qualification — 17.07 m
  • Final — 17.00 m (→ 8th place)
• Chen Yanping
  • Qualification — 15.66 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Zhang Lianbiao
  • Qualification — 73.86 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Bi Zhong
  • Qualification — 74.30 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

• Yu Wenge
  • Qualification — 59.42 m (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 metres

• Xiao Yehua
• Gao Han
• Tian Yumei

Women's 200 metres

• Chen Zhaojing

Women's 1,500 metres

• Qu Yunxia
• Liu Li

Women's 10,000 metres

• Zhong Huandi
  • Heat — 32:04.46
  • Final — 31:21.08 (→ 4th place)
• Wang Xiuting
  • Heat — 32:31.91
  • Final — 31:28.06 (→ 6th place)

Women's 100 metres Hurdles

• Zhang Yu
• Zhu Yuqing

Women's 10 km Walk

• Chen Yueling
  • Final — 44:32 (→ Gold Medal)
• Li Chunxiu
  • Final — 44:41 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Cui Yingzi
  • Final — 45:15 (→ 5th place)

Women's Long Jump

• Yang Juan
  • Heat — 6.49 m (→ did not advance)
• Liu Shuzhen
  • Heat — 6.44 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Discus Throw

• Min Chunfeng
  • Heat — 62.48m
  • Final — 60.82m (→ 11th place)
• Qiu Qiaoping
  • Heat — 59.32m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

• Huang Zhihong
• Zhou Tianhua
• Zhen Wenhua

Women's Javelin Throw

• Xu Demei
• Ha Xiaoyan

Women's Heptathlon

• Zhu Yuqing

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Lost to Lithuania (75-112)
  • Lost to Puerto Rico (68-100)
  • Lost to Unified Team (84-100)
  • Lost to Australia (66-88)
  • Lost to Venezuela (88-96)
• Classification Matches
  • 9th/12th place: Lost to Angola (69-79)
  • 11th/12th place: Lost to Venezuela (97-100) → 12th place
• Team Roster
  • Adiljan Jun
  • Gong Xiaobin
  • Hu Weidong
  • Li Chunjiang
  • Ma Jian
  • Shan Tao
  • Song Ligang
  • Sun Fengwu
  • Sun Jun
  • Wang Zhidan
  • Wu Qinglong
  • Zhang Yongjun

Women's competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Spain (66-63)
  • Lost to United States (67-93)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (72-70)
• Semifinals
  • Defeated Cuba (109-70)
• Final
  • Lost to Unified Team (66-76) → Silver Medal
• Team Roster
  • Cong Xuedi
  • He Jun
  • Li Dongmei
  • Li Xin
  • Liu Jun
  • Liu Qing
  • Peng Ping
  • Wang Fang
  • Zhan Shuping
  • Zheng Dongmei
  • Zheng Haixia

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Liu Gang
  • First Round — Lost to Héctor Avila (DOM), RSC-2 (02:38)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Zhang Guangping
  • First Round — Lost to Slimane Zengli (ALG), 0:4

Men's Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Lu Chao
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Lost to Stefan Trendafilov (BUL), RSC-1 (01:45)

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Bai Chongguang
  • First Round — Lost to Ko Yo-Da (KOR), 4:18

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Six cyclists, four men and two women, represented China in 1992.

Men's road race

• Tang Xuezhong
• Zhu Zhengjun
• Wang Shusen

Men's team time trial

• Li Wenkai
• Wang Shusen
• Zhu Zhengjun
• Tang Xuezhong

Men's points race

• Li Wenkai

Women's sprint

• Wang Yan

Women's individual pursuit

• Zhou Lingmei

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

• Tan Liangde
  • Preliminary Round — 426.39 points
  • Final — 645.57 points (→ Silver Medal)
• Wei Lan
  • Preliminary Round — 369.09 points (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Men's 10m Platform

• Sun Shuwei
  • Preliminary Round — 447.96 points
  • Final — 677.31 points (→ Gold Medal)
• Xiong Ni
  • Preliminary Round — 453.87 points
  • Final — 600.15 points (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Gao Min
  • Preliminary Round — 309.75 points
  • Final — 572.40 points (→ Gold Medal)
• Tan Shuping
  • Preliminary Round — 269.10 points (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Fu Mingxia
  • Final — 461.43 points (→ Gold Medal)
• Zhou Jihong
  • Final — 400.56 points (→ 4th place)

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

15 fencers, 10 men and 5 women, represented China in 1992.

Men's foil

• Ye Chong
• Wang Haibin
• Wang Lihong

Men's team foil

• Ye Chong, Wang Haibin, Wang Lihong, Chen Biao, Lao Shaopei

Men's sabre

• Zheng Zhaokang
• Yang Zhen
• Jia Guihua

Men's team sabre

• Jia Guihua, Ning Xiankui, Yang Zhen, Jiang Yefei, Zheng Zhaokang

Women's foil

• Wang Huifeng
• Xiao Aihua
• E Jie

Women's team foil

• E Jie, Liang Jun, Wang Huifeng, Xiao Aihua, Ye Lin

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics

One male pentathlete represented China in 1992.

Men's Individual Competition

• Zhang Bin → 56th place (4670 points)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Main article: Rhythmic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

• Chen Jiang
  • Final Ranking — 158.7 points (→ 14th place)

Women's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

• Zhang Xiaodong
  • Final Ranking — 65.8 points (→ Silver Medal)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Three synchronized swimmers represented China in 1992.

Women's solo

• Tan Min
• Guan Zewen
• Wang Xiaojie

Women's duet

• Guan Zewen
• Wang Xiaojie

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Women's Singles Competition

• Li Fang
  • First Round — Lost to Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (Netherland) 5-7, 7-6, 4-6
• Chen Li-Ling
  • First Round — Lost to Mary Joe Fernandez (USA) 2-6, 3-6

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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