China at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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.

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).

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Swimming	Women's 100 metre freestyle	26 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Diving	Women's 10 metre platform	27 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Judo	Women's +72 kg	27 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Shooting	Men's 10 metre air pistol	28 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Shooting	Skeet	28 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Swimming	Women's 100 metre butterfly	29 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Swimming	Women's 200 metre individual medley	30 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Swimming	Women's 50 metre freestyle	31 July
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Gymnastics	Women's uneven bars	1 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Diving	Women's 3 metre springboard	2 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Gymnastics	Men's floor	2 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Table tennis	Women's doubles	3 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Diving	Men's 10 metre platform	3 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Athletics	Women's 10 kilometres walk	3 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Table tennis	Men's doubles	4 August
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Table tennis	Women's singles	5 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol	26 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Swimming	Women's 400 metre individual medley	26 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Weightlifting	Men's 52 kg	26 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Shooting	Women's 25 metre pistol	27 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Swimming	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	27 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	27 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	28 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Diving	Men's 3 metre springboard	29 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Gymnastics	Men's artistic team all-around	29 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Fencing	Women's foil	30 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Swimming	Women's 200 metre butterfly	31 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Swimming	Women's 50 metre freestyle	31 July
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Gymnastics	Women's balance beam	1 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Sailing	Women's Lechner A-390	2 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Gymnastics	Men's rings	2 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	2 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Table tennis	Women's doubles	3 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Archery	Women's team	4 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Badminton	Women's doubles	4 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Table tennis	Women's singles	5 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Athletics	Women's shot put	7 August
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver	China women's national basketball team	Basketball	Women's tournament	7 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	27 July
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg	28 July
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg	30 July
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Judo	Women's 61 kg	30 July
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Rowing	Women's double sculls	1 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Judo	Women's 52 kg	1 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Gymnastics	Men's rings	2 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	2 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Diving	Men's 10 metre platform	3 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Badminton	Men's doubles	3 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Badminton	Women's singles	3 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Badminton	Women's singles	3 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Badminton	Women's doubles	3 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Athletics	Women's 10 kilometres walk	3 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Table tennis	Men's singles	5 August
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Athletics	Women's 1500 metres	8 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

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

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

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 (→ File:Med 1.png Gold Medal)
• Li Chunxiu
  • Final — 44:41 (→ File:Med 3.png 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

Basketball

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) → File:Med 2.png 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

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

Cycling

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

Men's 3m Springboard

• Tan Liangde
  • Preliminary Round — 426.39 points
  • Final — 645.57 points (→ File:Med 2.png 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 (→ File:Med 1.png Gold Medal)
• Xiong Ni
  • Preliminary Round — 453.87 points
  • Final — 600.15 points (→ File:Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Gao Min
  • Preliminary Round — 309.75 points
  • Final — 572.40 points (→ File:Med 1.png Gold Medal)
• Tan Shuping
  • Preliminary Round — 269.10 points (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Fu Mingxia
  • Final — 461.43 points (→ File:Med 1.png Gold Medal)
• Zhou Jihong
  • Final — 400.56 points (→ 4th place)

Fencing

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

Modern pentathlon

One male pentathlete represented China in 1992.

Men's Individual Competition

• Zhang Bin → 56th place (4670 points)

Sailing

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 (→ File:Silver medal.svg Silver Medal)

Synchronized swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented China in 1992.

Women's solo

• Tan Min
• Guan Zewen
• Wang Xiaojie

Women's duet

• Guan Zewen
• Wang Xiaojie

Tennis

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