China at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Competitors	639 in 28 (38 disciplines) sports
Officials	460
Flag bearer	Yao Ming[1] (opening) Zhang Ning (closing)
Medals Rank: 1[2]	Gold 51	Silver 21	Bronze 28	Total 100
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China was the host nation of the 2008 Summer Olympics. China was represented by the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC), and the team of selected athletes were officially known as Team China.

As the host country, China received an automatic quota for every competition, though athletes had to meet the qualification standards set by the country's national Olympics committee. A total of 639 athletes qualified for places on the national team, the 2008 game's largest, and significantly more than the 407-strong Chinese team that went to Athens in 2004. Chinese athletes from every province qualified to compete in all 28 Olympic sports, marking the first time that Chinese athletes were represented in every sport at an Olympics. Of the total 639 athletes, 469 were competing in their first Olympics, 165 competed in Athens 2004, 37 took part in Sydney 2000 and the average age is 24.2 years old. Three athletes, diver Guo Jingjing, shooter Tan Zongliang and basketballer Li Nan, were making their fourth Olympic appearances, having first competed in Atlanta 1996. China's Olympic delegation totalled 1,099, which included 460 officials.^[3][4] According to Olympic protocol, China entered as the last country into the Beijing National Stadium during the Opening Ceremony. They were led by basketballer Yao Ming and Lin Hao, a 9-year-old primary school student who had rescued two schoolmates during the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.

China topped the rankings for the first time with 51 gold medals. In 2009 Team China won the Laureus World Sports Awards for the best Team of the Year.

The team excludes athletes from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, which competed separately as Hong Kong, China.

Medalists

Further information: 2008 Summer Olympics medal table, List of 2008 Summer Olympics medal winners, and 2008 Summer Olympics highlights

China won 51 gold medals, 21 silvers, and 28 bronzes making this the largest ever medals tally in China's Olympic history and marking the first time China has ranked first.^[2] They entered a team of 639 athletes, the large size characteristic of host nation teams.^[5][6]

On Sunday August 17, China achieved its greatest ever Olympic performance when the women's table tennis team defeated Singapore 3-0 in the final to win the country's 33rd gold medal, surpassing the previous best tally of 32 at Athens 2004. That day's gain of eight gold medals is also the largest single-day gain by a national team since the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
1 Gold	Chen Xiexia	Weightlifting	Women's 48 kg	9 Aug
1 Gold	Pang Wei	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol	9 Aug
1 Gold	Guo Wenjun	Shooting	Women's 10 m air pistol	10 Aug
1 Gold	Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia	Diving	Women's synchronized 3 m springboard	10 Aug
1 Gold	Xian Dongmei	Judo	Women's 52 kg	10 Aug
1 Gold	Long Qingquan	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	10 Aug
1 Gold	Huo Liang, Lin Yue	Diving	Men's 10 m synchronized platform	11 Aug
1 Gold	Chen Yanqing	Weightlifting	Women's 58 kg	11 Aug
1 Gold	Zhang Xiangxiang	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg	11 Aug
1 Gold	Huang Xu, Chen Yibing, Li Xiaopeng Xiao Qin, Yang Wei, Zou Kai	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's artistic team all-around	12 Aug
1 Gold	Chen Ruolin, Wang Xin	Diving	Women's synchronized 10 m platform	12 Aug
1 Gold	Zhong Man	Fencing	Men's sabre	12 Aug
1 Gold	Liao Hui	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg	12 Aug
1 Gold	Yang Yilin, Cheng Fei, Jiang Yuyuan Deng Linlin, He Kexin, Li Shanshan	Gymnastics Artistic	Women's artistic team all-around	13 Aug
1 Gold	Chen Ying	Shooting	Women's 25 metre pistol	13 Aug
1 Gold	Wang Feng, Qin Kai	Diving	Men's synchronized 3 m springboard	13 Aug
1 Gold	Liu Chunhong	Weightlifting	Women's 69 kg	13 Aug
1 Gold	Liu Zige	Swimming	Women's 200 m butterfly	14 Aug
1 Gold	Du Li	Shooting	Women's 50m rifle 3 positions	14 Aug
1 Gold	Yang Wei	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's artistic individual all-around	14 Aug
1 Gold	Zhang Juanjuan	Archery	Women's individual	14 Aug
1 Gold	Yang Xiuli	Judo	Women's 78 kg	14 Aug
1 Gold	Cao Lei	Weightlifting	Women's 75 kg	15 Aug
1 Gold	Tong Wen	Judo	Women's +78 kg	15 Aug
1 Gold	Lu Yong	Weightlifting	Men's 85 kg	15 Aug
1 Gold	Du Jing, Yu Yang	Badminton	Women's doubles	15 Aug
1 Gold	Zhang Ning	Badminton	Women's singles	16 Aug
1 Gold	Qiu Jian	Shooting	Men's 50 m rifle three positions	17 Aug
1 Gold	Tang Bin, Xi Aihua, Jin Ziwei, Feng Guixin	Rowing	Women's quadruple sculls	17 Aug
1 Gold	Wang Jiao	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 72 kg	17 Aug
1 Gold	Zou Kai	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's floor	17 Aug
1 Gold	Xiao Qin	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's pommel horse	17 Aug
1 Gold	Guo Yue, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia	Table tennis	Women's team	17 Aug
1 Gold	Lin Dan	Badminton	Men's singles	17 Aug
1 Gold	Guo Jingjing	Diving	Women's 3 metre springboard	17 Aug
1 Gold	Chen Yibing	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's rings	18 Aug
1 Gold	He Kexin	Gymnastics Artistic	Women's uneven bars	18 Aug
1 Gold	He Wenna	Trampoline	Women's trampoline	18 Aug
1 Gold	Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Wang Liqin, Chen Qi	Table tennis	Men's team	18 Aug
1 Gold	Li Xiaopeng	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's parallel bars	19 Aug
1 Gold	Zou Kai	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's horizontal bar	19 Aug
1 Gold	Lu Chunlong	Trampoline	Men's trampoline	19 Aug
1 Gold	He Chong	Diving	Men's 3 metre springboard	19 Aug
1 Gold	Yin Jian	Sailing	Women's sailboard	20 Aug
1 Gold	Wu Jingyu	Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg	20 Aug
1 Gold	Chen Ruolin	Diving	Women's 10 metre platform	21 Aug
1 Gold	Zhang Yining	Table tennis	Women's singles	22 Aug
1 Gold	Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun	Canoeing – Flatwater	Men's C-2 500 metres	23 Aug
1 Gold	Ma Lin	Table tennis	Men's singles	23 Aug
1 Gold	Zou Shiming	Boxing	Light flyweight	24 Aug
1 Gold	Zhang Xiaoping	Boxing	Light heavyweight	24 Aug
2 Silver	Zhang Lin	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle	10 Aug
2 Silver	Zhang Juanjuan, Chen Ling, Guo Dan	Archery	Women's team	10 Aug
2 Silver	Zhu Qinan	Shooting	Men's 10 m air rifle	11 Aug
2 Silver	Tan Zongliang	Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol	12 Aug
2 Silver	Chang Yongxiang	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg	13 Aug
2 Silver	Li Hongli	Weightlifting	Men's 77 kg	13 Aug
2 Silver	Jiao Liuyang	Swimming	Women's 200 m butterfly	14 Aug
2 Silver	Yang Yu, Zhu Qianwei, Tan Miao Pang Jiaying, Tang Jingzhi	Swimming	Women's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay	14 Aug
2 Silver	Bao Yingying, Huang Haiyang, Ni Hong, Tan Xue	Fencing	Women's team sabre	14 Aug
2 Silver	Xie Xingfang	Badminton	Women's singles	16 Aug
2 Silver	Wu You, Gao Yulan	Rowing	Women's coxless pair	16 Aug
2 Silver	Xu Li	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 55 kg	16 Aug
2 Silver	Cai Yun, Fu Haifeng	Badminton	Men's doubles	16 Aug
2 Silver	Yang Wei	Gymnastics Artistic	Men's rings	18 Aug
2 Silver	Tian Jia, Wang Jie	Beach volleyball	Women's tournament	21 Aug
2 Silver	Wang Nan	Table tennis	Women's singles	22 Aug
2 Silver	China women's national field hockey team Cheng Hui   Ma Yibo Chen Qiuqi   Pan Fengzhen Chen Zhaoxia   Ren Ye Fu Baorong   Song Qungling Gao Lihua   Tang Chunling Huang Junxia   Zhao Yudiao Li Hongxia   Zhang Yimeng Li Shuang   Zhou Wanfeng	Field hockey	Women's tournament	22 Aug
2 Silver	Wang Hao	Table tennis	Men's singles	23 Aug
2 Silver	Zhou Lüxin	Diving	Men's 10 metre platform	23 Aug
2 Silver	Cai Tongtong, Chou Tao, Lü Yuanyang Sui Jianshuang, Sun Dan, Zhang Shuo	Gymnastics Rhythmic	Women's rhythmic team all-around	24 Aug
2 Silver	Zhang Zhilei	Boxing	Super heavyweight	24 Aug
3 Bronze	Xue Haifeng, Jiang Lin, Li Wenquan	Archery	Men's team	11 Aug
3 Bronze	Xu Yan	Judo	Women's 57 kg	11 Aug
3 Bronze	Hu Binyuan	Shooting	Double trap	12 Aug
3 Bronze	Pang Jiaying	Swimming	Women's 200 m freestyle	13 Aug
3 Bronze	Yang Yilin	Gymnastics Artistic	Women's artistic individual all-around	15 Aug
3 Bronze	Zhang Yawen, Wei Yili	Badminton	Women's doubles	15 Aug
3 Bronze	Chen Jin	Badminton	Men's singles	16 Aug
3 Bronze	Zhao Jing, Sun Ye, Zhou Yafei Pang Jiaying, Xu Tianlongzi	Swimming	Women's 4 x 100 m medley relay	17 Aug
3 Bronze	Zhou Chunxiu	Athletics	Women's marathon	17 Aug
3 Bronze	Yan Zi, Zheng Jie	Tennis	Women's doubles	17 Aug
3 Bronze	He Hanbin, Yu Yang	Badminton	Mixed doubles	17 Aug
3 Bronze	Cheng Fei	Gymnastics Artistic	Women's vault	17 Aug
3 Bronze	Wu Minxia	Diving	Women's 3 metre springboard	17 Aug
3 Bronze	Yang Yilin	Gymnastics Artistic	Women's uneven bars	18 Aug
3 Bronze	Xu Lijia	Sailing	Women's Laser Radial class	19 Aug
3 Bronze	Cheng Fei	Gymnastics Artistic	Women's balance beam	19 Aug
3 Bronze	Guo Shuang	Cycling – Track	Women's sprint	19 Aug
3 Bronze	Dong Dong	Trampoline	Men's trampoline	19 Aug
3 Bronze	Qin Kai	Diving	Men's 3 metre springboard	19 Aug
3 Bronze	Zhang Wenxiu	Athletics	Women's hammer throw	20 Aug
3 Bronze	Xue Chen, Zhang Xi	Beach volleyball	Women's tournament	21 Aug
3 Bronze	Wang Xin	Diving	Women's 10 metre platform	21 Aug
3 Bronze	Zhu Guo	Taekwondo	Men's 80 kg	22 Aug
3 Bronze	Guo Yue	Table tennis	Women's singles	22 Aug
3 Bronze	Hanati Silamu	Boxing	Welterweight	22 Aug
3 Bronze	China women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	Women's tournament	23 Aug
3 Bronze	Gu Beibei, Huang Xuechen, Jiang Tingting Jiang Wenwen, Liu Ou, Luo Qian, Sun Qiuting Wang Na, Zhang Xiaohuan	Synchronized Swimming	Women's team	23 Aug
3 Bronze	Wang Liqin	Table tennis	Men's singles	23 Aug

Medals by sport Sport Total Gymnastics[7] 11 2 5 18 Weightlifting 8 1 0 9 Diving 7 1 3 11 Shooting 5 2 1 8 Table tennis 4 2 2 8 Badminton 3 2 3 8 Judo 3 0 1 4 Boxing 2 1 1 4 Swimming 1 3 2 6 Wrestling 1 2 0 3 Archery 1 1 1 3 Rowing 1 1 0 2 Fencing 1 1 0 2 Taekwondo 1 0 1 2 Sailing 1 0 1 2 Canoeing[8] 1 0 0 1 Volleyball[9] 0 1 2 3 Hockey 0 1 0 1 Athletics 0 0 2 2 Cycling[10] 0 0 1 1 Tennis 0 0 1 1 Synchronized Swimming 0 0 1 1 Total 51 21 28 100	Medals by date Day Date Total Day 1 9th 2 0 0 2 Day 2 10th 4 2 0 6 Day 3 11th 3 1 2 6 Day 4 12th 4 1 1 6 Day 5 13th 4 2 1 7 Day 6 14th 5 3 0 8 Day 7 15th 4 0 2 6 Day 8 16th 1 4 1 6 Day 9 17th 8 0 6 14 Day 10 18th 4 1 1 6 Day 11 19th 4 0 5 9 Day 12 20th 2 0 1 3 Day 13 21st 1 1 2 4 Day 14 22nd 1 2 3 6 Day 15 23rd 2 2 3 7 Day 16 24th 2 2 0 4 Total 51 21 28 100	Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Zou Kai Gymnastics 3 0 0 3 Yang Wei Gymnastics 2 1 0 3 He Kexin Gymnastics 2 0 0 2 Chen Yibing Gymnastics 2 0 0 2 Li Xiaopeng Gymnastics 2 0 0 2 Xiao Qin Gymnastics 2 0 0 2 Guo Jingjing Diving 2 0 0 2 Chen Ruolin Diving 2 0 0 2 Zhang Yining Table tennis 2 0 0 2 Ma Lin Table tennis 2 0 0 2 Wang Nan Table tennis 1 1 0 2 Wang Hao Table tennis 1 1 0 2 Zhang Juanjuan Archery 1 1 0 2 Cheng Fei Gymnastics 1 0 2 3 Yang Yilin Gymnastics 1 0 2 3 Qin Kai Gymnastics 1 0 1 2 Wu Minxia Diving 1 0 1 2 Wang Xin Diving 1 0 1 2 Guo Yue Table tennis 1 0 1 2 Wang Liqin Table tennis 1 0 1 2 Yu Yang Badminton 1 0 1 2 Pang Jiaying Swimming 0 1 2 3

Won all medals in one event

• Women's singles table tennis
• Men's singles table tennis

Won all gold medals in one sport

• Table tennis (4 gold)
• Trampoline (2 gold)

Won gold medals in both men's and women's events where only one entry is allowed

• Synchronized 3 metre springboard diving
• Synchronized 10 metre platform diving
• Team all-around gymnastics
• Team table tennis

Archery

Main articles: Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As the host nation, China automatically received a full complement of six quota spots (three for men, three for women) for the archery competitions. China's national selection competition resulted in Xue Haifeng, Jiang Lin and Li Wenquan taking the three men's spots, while Zhang Juanjuan, Chen Ling and Guo Dan earned the women's spots.^[11] Xue and Zhang are both veterans of the 2004 Games, with Zhang a member of the women's team that took the silver medal. That medal was China's fourth silver in archery.

On August 14, in the women's individual event, Zhang Juanjuan became the first Chinese archer to win a gold medal.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Xue Haifeng	Men's individual	663	18	Lyon (CAN) (47) L 106-111	Did not advance
Jiang Lin	Men's individual	632	55	Lee (KOR) (10) L 108-112	Did not advance
Li Wenquan	Men's individual	646	46	Proc (POL) (19) L 111-116	Did not advance
Xue Haifeng Jiang Lin Li Wenquan	Men's team	1941	12	N/A		Great Britain (GBR) (5) W 214-210	Russia (RUS) (4) W 217-209	South Korea (KOR) (1) L 221-218	Ukraine (UKR) (2) W 222-219
Zhang Juanjuan	Women's individual	635	27	Berezhna (UKR) (38) W 109-97	Yuan (TPE) (50) W 110-105	Erdyniyeva (RUS) (11) W 110-98	Joo (KOR) (3) W 106-101	Yun (KOR) (50) W 115-109	Park (KOR) (50) W 110-109
Chen Ling	Women's individual	645	15	Psarra (GRE) (50) W 109-79	Muliuk (BLR) (50) W 106-105	Yun (KOR) (50) L 103-113	Did not advance
Guo Dan	Women's individual	636	25	Burgess (GBR) (40) L 104-106	Did not advance
Zhang Juanjuan Chen Ling Guo Dan	Women's team	1916	3	N/A		Bye	India (IND) (6) W 211-206	Great Britain (GBR) (2) W 208-202	South Korea (KOR) (1) L 215- 224

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Total: 77 athletes

Men

Track events

Event Athletes Heat round 1 Heat round 2 Semifinal Final Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank 100 m Hu Kai 10.39 4 10.40 8 Did not advance 200 m Zhang Peimeng 21.06 7 Did not advance 400 m Liu Xiaosheng 53.11 18 Did not advance 800 m Li Xiangyu 1:48.44 44 Did not advance 110 m hurdles Liu Xiang Did not finish Did not advance Shi Dongpeng 13.53 12 13.42 8 13.42 8 Did not advance Ji Wei 13.57 17 13.80 29 Did not advance 400 m hurdles Meng Yan 49.73 5 Did not advance 4x100 m relay From: Wen Yongyi Liang Jiahong Lu Bin Xing Yanan Hu Kai Zhang Peimeng 39.13 4 n/a Disqualified

Field events Event Athletes Qualification Final Result Rank Result Rank Long jump Li Runrun 7.70 15 Did not advance Zhou Can NM — Did not advance Triple jump Zhong Minwei 15.59 18 Did not advance Gu Junjie 15.94 17 Did not advance Li Yanxi 17.30 1 16.77 10 High jump Huang Haiqiang NM — Did not advance Pole vault Liu Feiliang 5.55 10 Did not advance Javelin throw Chen Qi 73.50 11 Did not advance

Road events Event Athletes Final Result Rank Marathon Ren Longyun No Show Deng Haiyang 2:16:17 25 Li Zhuhong 2:24:08 51 20 km walk Wang Hao 1:19:47 4 Chu Yafei 1:21:17 10 Dong Jimin 1:24:34 30 50 km walk Yu Chaohong No Show Li Jianbo 3:52:20 14 Zhao Chengliang 3:56:47 21 Si Tianfeng 3:52:58 17

Combined events Decathlon Event Qi Haifeng Results Points Rank 100 m 11.15 827 22 Long jump 7.22 866 16 Shot put 13.40 692 32 High jump 1.93 740 23 400 m 49.39 843 14 110 m hurdles 14.60 899 1 Discus throw 46.46 797 6 Pole vault 4.30 702 6 Javelin throw 63.09 784 9 1500 m 4:39.32 685 6 Final total 7835 18

Women's team

Track events Event Athletes Heat round 1 Heat round 2 Semifinal Final Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank 100 m Wang Jing 11.87 5 Did not advance 1,500 m Liu Qing 4:09.27 9 Did not advance 5,000 m Xue Fei 15:13.25 9 n/a 16:09.84 13 Zhang Yingying 15:23.81 11 Did not advance He Pan No Show 10,000 m Zhang Yingying n/a 31:31.12 16 Bai Xue n/a 32:20.27 21 Dong Xiaoqin n/a 33:03.14 28 3000 m steeplechase Li Zhenzhu 10:04.05 13 Did not advance Zhu Yanmei 9:29.63 7 Did not advance Jin Yuan No Show Zhao Yanni 10:36.77 16 Did not advance 4x100 m relay From: Tao Yujia Chen Jue Han Ling Qin Wangping Wang Jing Jiang Lan 43.78 4 Did not advance 4x400 m relay From: Chen Jingwen Han Ling Wang Jinping Tang Xiaoyin 3:30.77 8 Did not advance

Field events Event Athletes Qualification Final Result Rank Result Rank High jump Zheng Xingjuan 1.89 10 Did not advance Triple jump Xie Limei 14.27 5 14.09 12 Pole vault Gao Shuying 4.50 2 4.45 12 Li Ling1 4.15 13 Did not advance Zhou Yang 4.15 13 Did not advance Shot put Li Ling2 18.60 4 7.94 14 Li Meiju 19.18 2 19.00 8 Gong Lijiao 19.46 1 19.20 5 Discus throw Sun Taifeng No Show Song Aimin 61.67 3 62.20 4 Ma Xuejun 58.45 14 Did not advance Li Yanfeng 61.29 5 60.68 7 Hammer throw Zhang Wenxiu 73.36 1 74.32 Wang Zheng 65.64 16 Did not advance Javelin throw Chang Chunfeng 58.42 11 Did not advance Song Dan 54.32 20 Did not advance Zhang Li 61.77 5 Did not advance

Road events Event Athletes Final Result Rank Marathon Zhou Chunxiu 2:27:07 Zhu Xiaolin 2:27:16 4 Chen Rong Did not start Zhang Shujing 2:35:35 41 20 km walk Liu Hong 1:27:17 4 Jiang Qiuyan No Show Yang Mingxia Disqualified Shi Na 1:29:08 13

Combined events Heptathlon Event Liu Haili Results Points Rank 100 m hurdles 13.56 1041 2 High jump 1.77 941 8 Shot put 12.71 708 7 200 m 24.47 936 1 Long jump 6.08 874 6 Javelin throw 41.79 702 7 800 m 2:18.84 839 5 Final total 6041 20

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
(3) Bao Chunlai	Singles	n/a	Cordón (GUA) W 21-17, 21-16	Wacha (POL) W 21-11, 19-21, 21-13	Lee (KOR) L 21-23, 11-21	Did not advance
(4) Chen Jin	Singles	n/a	Moody (NZL) W 21-9, 21-11	Kehlhoffner (FRA) W 21-10, 21-6	Hsieh (TPE) W 21-8, 21-14	Lin (CHN) L 12-21, 18-21	Lee (KOR) W 21-16, 12-21, 21-14
(1) Lin Dan	Singles	n/a	Ng (HKG) W 21-16, 21-13	Park (KOR) W 21-8, 21-11	Gade (DEN) W 21-13, 21-16	Chen (CHN) W 21-12, 21-18	Lee (MAS) W 21-12, 21-8
(2) Fu Haifeng Cai Yun	Doubles	n/a		Eriksen and Hansen (DEN) W 21-12, 21-11	Bach and Malaythong (USA) W 21-9, 21-10	Lee and Hwang (KOR) W 22-20, 21-8	(1) Kido and Setiawan (INA) L 21-12, 11-21, 16-21
Guo Zhendong Xie Zhongbo	Doubles	n/a		(1) Kido and Setiawan (INA) L 20-22, 21-10, 17-21	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
(3) Lu Lan	Singles	n/a	Kune (MRI) W 21-1, 21-3	Rice (CAN) W 21-7, 21-12	Wong (MAS) W 21-7, 29-27	Xie (CHN) L 21-7, 10-21, 12-21	Yulianti (INA) L 21-11, 13-21, 15-21	4
(1) Xie Xingfang	Singles	n/a	Cheng (TPE) W 21-1, 21-9	Olga (BLR) W 21-16, 21-15	Xu (GER) W 21-19, 22-20	Lu (CHN) W 7-21, 21-10, 21-12	Zhang (CHN) L 12-21, 21-10, 18-21
(2) Zhang Ning	Singles	n/a	Ponsana (THA) W 21-23, 21-17, 21-7	Jun (KOR) W 21-11, 21-12	Pi (FRA) W 21-8, 19-21, 21-19	Yulianti (INA) W 21-15, 21-15	Xie (CHN) W 21-12, 10-21, 21-18
(2) Du Jing Yu Yang	Doubles	n/a		(2) Ha and Kim (KOR) W 21-11, 16-21, 21-15	Ogura and Shiota (JPN) W 21-8 21-5	Zhang and Wei (CHN) W 21-19 21-12	K Lee and H Lee (KOR) W 21-15 21-13
(1) Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	Doubles	n/a		Natsir and Marissa (INA) W 21-19, 21-15	Maeda and Suetsuna (JPN) L 21-8, 21-23, 14-21	Did not advance
(3) Zhang Yawen Wei Yili	Doubles	n/a		Kristiansen and Juhl (DEN) W 21-19, 21-13	Chien and Cheng (TPE) W 21-14, 21-18	Du and Yu (CHN) L 19-21, 12-21	Maeda and Suetsuna (JPN) W 21-17, 21-10

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
(4) He Hanbin Yu Yang	Doubles	n/a		Clark and Kellogg (GBR) W 21-15, 21-8	Mateusiak and Kostiuczyk (POL) W 22-20, 23-21	Widianto and Natsir (INA) L 21-15, 11-21, 21-23	Limpele and Marissa (INA) W 19-21, 21-17, 23-21
(2) Zheng Bo Gao Ling	Doubles	n/a		Robertson and Emms (GBR) L 16-21, 21-16, 19-21	Did not advance

Baseball

Main articles: Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The China national baseball team secured automatic qualification as host nation of the Olympics and makes its first appearance at the Olympics. The team's coach is American Jim Lefebvre.

A team of 24 players competed.

Group stage

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Team	G	W	L	RS	RA	WIN%	GB	Tiebreaker
South Korea	7	7	0	41	22	1.000	-	-
Cuba	7	6	1	52	23	.857	1	-
United States	7	5	2	40	22	.714	2	-
Japan	7	4	3	30	14	.571	3	-
Chinese Taipei	7	2	5	29	33	.286	5	1-0
Canada	7	2	5	29	20	.286	5	0-1
Netherlands	7	1	6	9	50	.143	6	1-0
China	7	1	6	14	60	.143	6	0-1

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Canada 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 4 - 10 10 0  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 8 2 WP: Chris Begg (1-0)   LP: Tao Bu (0-1) Home runs: CAN: Scott Thorman (1), Michael Saunders (1) CHN: None

Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0  South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E  Chinese Taipei 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 7 11 1  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 11 3 WP: Jiangang Lu (1-0)   LP: Chien-Fu Yang (0-1) Home runs: TPE: Kuo-Hui Lo (1) CHN: None

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  Netherlands 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 6 9 1  China 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 11 1 WP: Leon Boyd (1-0)   LP: Kai Liu (0-1)   Sv: David Bergman (1) Home runs: NED: Sharnol Adriana (1), Sidney de Jong (1), Bryan Engelhardt (1) CHN: None

Team 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E  China - 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2  South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 0 WP: Seung-Hwan Oh (1-0)   LP: Jiangang Lv (1-1)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 1  United States 1 0 0 0 3 1 4 0 X 9 9 0 WP: Jake Arrieta (1-0)   LP: Chenhao Li (0-1) Home runs: CHN: Yang Yang (1) USA: None

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 2 0  Japan 0 3 1 0 0 6 X - - 10 10 0 WP: Hideaki Wakui (2-0)   LP: Nan Wang (0-1) Home runs: CHN: None JPN: Tsuyoshi Nishioka (1)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - - 1 2 1  Cuba 0 9 1 4 1 2 X - - 17 20 0 WP: Jonder Martínez (2-0)   LP: Tao Bu (0-2) Home runs: CHN: None CUB: Giorbis Duvergel (1), Michel Enríquez (1), Ariel Pestano (1)

Basketball

Main articles: Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification, and Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Men

A squad of 12 players represented China in the men's competition.

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	5	5	0	515	354	+161	10
Spain	5	4	1	418	369	+49	9
Greece	5	3	2	415	375	+40	8
China	5	2	3	366	400	-34	7
Germany	5	1	4	330	390	-60	6
Angola	5	0	5	321	477	-156	5

August 10 22:15	Game 12	United States	101–70	China		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Carl Jungebrand (Finland)
		Scoring by quarter: 20-16, 29-21, 25-11, 27-22
		Pts: Wade 19 Rebs: Bosh 8 Asts: Paul 6		Pts: Yao 13 Rebs: Yao 10 Asts: Chen, Liu, Zhu, Sun 2

August 12 16:45	Game 22	China	75–85 (OT)	Spain	OT	Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Jose Carrion (Puerto Rico)
		Scoring by quarter: 18-20, 28-17, 15-10, 11-25, OT: 3-13
		Pts: Liu 19 Rebs: Yao, Yi 9 Asts: Yao, Sun 3		Pts: Gasol 29 Rebs: Gasol, Fernández 8 Asts: Fernández 6

August 14 14:30	Game 33	Angola	68–85	China		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,086 Referees: Carl Jungebrand (Finland)
		Scoring by quarter: 15-28, 27-16, 9-21, 17-20
		Pts: Gomez 17 Rebs: Mingas 5 Asts: Gomez 3		Pts: Yao 30 Rebs: Yi 11 Asts: Hamann, Zhu, Li 3

August 16 20:00	Game 47	China	59–55	Germany		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Eddie Rush (USA)
		Scoring by quarter: 19-9, 8-22, 20-8, 12-16
		Pts: Yao 25 Rebs: Yao, Yi 11 Asts: Wei 3		Pts: Nowitzki 24 Rebs: Nowitzki 17 Asts: Hamann, Garrett 2

August 18 14:30	Game 57	Greece	91–77	China		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Cristiano Maranho (Brazil)
		Scoring by quarter: 27-15, 19-9, 23-30, 22-23
		Pts: Bourousis, Spanoulis 19 Rebs: Bourousis 19 Asts: Papaloukas, Spanoulis 5		Pts: Yao 16 Rebs: Wang 8 Asts: Sun 6

Quarterfinals

August 20 16:45	Match 66	Lithuania	94–68	China		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Nikolaos Pitsilkas (Greece)
		Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 22–13, 29–23, 24–15
		Scoring by half: 41–30, 53–38
		Pts: Jasikevičius 23 Rebs: Kleiza 7 Asts: Jasikevičius 6		Pts: Yao 19 Rebs: Yi 9 Asts: Yao 3

Women

A squad of 12 players represented China in the women's competition.

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	5	5	0	491	276	+215	10
China	5	4	1	358	346	+12	9
Spain	5	3	2	357	324	+33	8
Czech Republic	5	2	3	346	356	-10	7
New Zealand	5	1	4	320	423	-103	6
Mali	5	0	5	255	402	-147	5

August 9 14:30	Match 3	China	67–64	Spain		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Jose Carrion (Puerto Rico)
		Scoring by quarter: 18-15, 19-9, 15-20, 15-20
		Pts: Bian 15 Rebs: Bian 12 Asts: Miao 3		Pts: Torrens 18 Rebs: Montanana 7 Asts: Palau 4

August 11 20:00	Match 11	China	63–108	United States		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Romualdas Brazauskas (Lithuania)
		Scoring by quarter: 11-33, 16-28, 19-20, 17-27
		Pts: Miao 16 Rebs: Bian, Liu, Sui 4 Asts: Miao, Shao 3		Pts: Thompson 27 Rebs: Leslie 10 Asts: Lawson, Pondexter 5

August 13 16:45	Match 16	China	80–63	New Zealand		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Yuji Hirahara (Japan)
		Scoring by quarter: 26-18, 24-13, 15-17, 15-15
		Pts: Chen 26 Rebs: Chen 17 Asts: Miao 6		Pts: Harmon, Marino 14 Rebs: Harmon 8 Asts: Bates 4

August 15 16:45	Match 22	China	69–48	Mali		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Reynaldo Mercedes (Dominican Republic)
		Scoring by quarter: 17-7, 20-13, 15-15, 17-13
		Pts: Miao 25 Rebs: Chen 9 Asts: Sui 5		Pts: Diawara, Sininta 11 Rebs: Sissoko 19 Asts: Diawara, Sininta 1

August 17 20:00	Match 29	China	79–63	Czech Republic		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Stephen Seibel (Canada)
		Scoring by quarter: 24-11, 17-14, 24-20, 14-18
		Pts: Miao 21 Rebs: Bian 9 Asts: Chen 3		Pts: Hartigova 15 Rebs: Veselá, Vecerova 8 Asts: Veselá, Machová 3

Quarterfinals

August 19 14:30	Game 61	China	77–62	Belarus		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Fabio Facchini (Italy)
		Scoring by quarter: 19–13, 19–12, 18–18, 21–19
		Pts: Miao 28 Rebs: Song, Chen, Sui 4 Asts: Miao 3		Pts: Troina 15 Rebs: Leuchanka 13 Asts: Padabed, Marchanka 5

Semifinals

August 21 20:00 or 22:15	Match 69	China	56–90	Australia		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,083 Referees: Chantal Julien (France)
		Scoring by quarter: 11-13, 7-21, 21-23, 17-33
		Pts: Bian 20 Rebs: Liu, Sui 7 Asts: Bian 2		Pts: Snell 16 Rebs: Batkovic 13 Asts: Harrower, Snell 4

Finals

August 23 19:30	Bronze medal game	Russia	94–81	China		Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11083[12] Referees: Scott Butler (Australia)
		Scoring by quarter: 24-23, 28-16, 20-18, 22-24
		Pts: Hammon 22 Rebs: Stepanova 9 Asts: Karpunina 5		Pts: Chen 26 Rebs: Bian, Sui 6 Asts: Song 7

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

China qualified ten boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament, far surpassing its guaranteed quota of at least six spots. The flyweight class was the only in which China did not qualify a boxer. Seven of the ten Chinese qualifiers did so at the world championships.^[13] Hu, Maimaitituersun, and Zhang Xiaoping qualified at the first Asian continental qualifying tournament.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Zou Shiming	Light flyweight	Bermudez Salas (VEN) W 15-2	Oubaali (FRA) W +3-3	Zhakypov (KAZ) W 9-4	Barnes (IRL) W 15-0	Serdamba (MGL) W Retired
Gu Yu	Bantamweight	Murray (GBR) W 17-7	Gojan (MDA) L 6-13	Did not advance
Li Yang	Featherweight	Conceiçao (BRA) W 12-4	Porozo (ECU) W 6-5	Lomachenko (UKR) L 3-13	Did not advance
Hu Qing	Lightweight	Klyuchko (UKR) W 10-8	Akshalov (KAZ) W 11-7	Sow (FRA) L 6-9	Did not advance
Maimaitituersun Qiong	Light welterweight	Kovalev (RUS) L 8-15	Did not advance
Hanati Silamu	Welterweight	Makina (ZAM) W 21-2	Mulema (CMR) W 9-4	Johnson (BAH) W 14-4	Suárez (CUB) L 4-7	Did not advance
Wang Jianzheng	Middleweight	Derevyanchenko (UKR) L 6-16	Did not advance
Zhang Xiaoping	Light heavyweight	Sahraoui (TUN) W 3-1	Beterbiyev (RUS) W 8-2	Benchabla (ALG) W 12-7	Shynaliyev (KAZ) W +3-3	Egan (IRL) W 11-7
Yushan Nijiati	Heavyweight	n/a	Usyk (UKR) L 4-23	Did not advance
Zhang Zhilei	Super heavyweight	n/a	Amanissi (MAR) W 15-0	Myrsatayev (KAZ) W 12-2	Glazkov (UKR) W Walkover	Cammarelle (ITA) L 4-14

Canoeing and kayaking

Main articles: Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Flatwater

Men Athlete Event Heats Semifinals Final Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Li Qiang C-1 500 m 1:49.164 2 1:52.887 3 1:49.287 6 Meng Guanliang Yang Wenjun C-2 500 m 1:41.218 1 auto advancement 1:41.025 Chen Zhongyun Zhang Zhiwu C-2 1000 m 3:41.658 4 3:42.619 3 3:40.593 5 Pan Yao K-1 500 m 1:44.757 6 1:55.242 8 Did not advance K-1 1000 m 3:40.774 5 3:41.539 6 Did not advance Huang Zhipeng Shen Jie K-2 500 m 1:34.432 8 Did not advance K-2 1000 m 3:26.443 5 3:24.031 3 3:22.058 8 Li Zhen Lin Miao Liu Haitao Zhou Peng K-4 1000 m 2:59.271 4 3:01.787 2 3:00.078 7

Women Athlete Event Heats Semifinals Final Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Zhong Hongyan K-1 500 m 1:49.440 2 1:53.163 1 1:52.220 5 Wang Feng Xu Linbei K-2 500 m 1:47.645 8 Did not advance Liang Peixing Xu Yaping Yu Lamei Zhong Hongyan K-4 500 m 1:36.971 2 auto advancement 1:37.418 9

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final		Total	Rank
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Feng Liming	Men's C-1	91.44	—	90.55	—	181.99	11	94.64	11	Did not advance
Hu Minghai Shu Junrong	Men's C-2	97.30	—	93.34	—	190.64	3	164.08	10	Did not advance
Ding Fuxue	Men's K-1	87.47	—	140.92	—	228.39	21	Did not advance
Li Jingjing	Women's K-1	94.30	—	93.26	—	187.56	2	161.79	13	Did not advance

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Four disciplines: track cycling, road cycling, mountain bike, and, new for 2008, BMX. The following events were contested by China:

BMX

Women

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ma Liyun	Individual	42.015	16	1st Run: 41.789 2nd Run: 41.789 3rd Run: 41.839	18	Did not advance

Mountain bike

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ji Jianhua	Men's cross-country	1:57:31	22
Liu Ying	Women's cross-country	1:52:01	12
Ren Chengyuan	Women's cross-country	1:47:40	5

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Zhang Liang	Men's road race	Did not finish
Gao Min	Women's road race	3:32:52	16
	Women's time trial	37:15	17
Meng Lang	Women's road race	3:37:42	48
	Women's time trial	40:51	25

Track

Sprints

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/16 finals (repechage)	1/8 finals (repechage)	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time Speed	Rank	Opposition Time Speed	Opposition Time Speed	Opposition Time Speed	Opposition Time Speed	Opposition Time Speed	Rank
Zhang Lei	Men's sprint	10.497 68.591	16	Did not advance
Guo Shuang	Women's sprint	11.106 64.829	2	n/a	Grankowskaja (RUS) 11.410 63.102	Tsylinskaya (BLR) 11.501, 11.627 —	Meares (AUS) 11.629, —, REL —	Kanis (NED) 11.420, 11.617 —
Li Wenhao Zhang Lei Feng Yong	Men's team sprint	45.556 59.267	9	Did not advance

Keirin Athlete Event 1st round Repechage 2nd round Finals Rank Rank Rank Rank Feng Yong Men's keirin 6 3 Did not advance

Points races Athlete Event Points/laps Rank Li Yan Women's points race 6 10

Diving

Main articles: Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men Athlete Events Preliminary Semifinal Final Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank He Chong Men's 3 m individual springboard 515.50 1 547.25 1 572.90 Qin Kai Men's 3 m individual springboard 502.95 2 508.50 2 530.10 Huo Liang Men's 10 m individual platform 472.95 8 549.95 1 508.40 4 Zhou Lüxin Men's 10 m individual platform 539.8 1 526.20 3 533.15 Qin Kai Wang Feng Men's 3 m synchronised springboard n/a 469.08 Huo Liang Lin Yue Men's 10 m synchronised platform n/a 468.18

Women Athlete Events Preliminary Semifinal Final Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank Guo Jingjing Women's 3 m individual springboard 373.90 1 398.55 1 415.35 Wu Minxia Women's 3 m individual springboard 349.45 4 345.30 3 389.85 Chen Ruolin Women's 10 m individual platform 428.80 1 444.60 1 447.70 Wang Xin Women's 10 m individual platform 420.30 3 388.55 3 429.90 Guo Jingjing Wu Minxia 3 m synchronised springboard n/a 343.50 Chen Ruolin Wang Xin 10 m Synchronised Platform n/a 363.54

Equestrian

Main articles: Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As host, China is allotted six berths – four in jumping, one in dressage and one in eventing.

Individual dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Final		Total
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Total score	Rank
Liu Lina	Piroschka	Individual dressage	120.625	—	182.500	—	Eliminated		60.625	43

Individual eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping				Total
							Qualifier		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Alex Hua Tian	Chico	Individual dressage	49.60	31	Eliminated						49.60	29

Individual jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Ind. round 1		Ind. round 2			Ind. round 3			Individual jump off
											Round A		Round B		Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Huang Zuping	Pablo II	Individual jumping	10	56	36	46	66	Eliminated
Li Zhenqiang	Jumpy Des Fontaines	Individual jumping	9	52	39	48	67	Eliminated
Zhang Bin	Coertis	Individual jumping	30	74	31	61	69	Eliminated
Zhao Zhiwen	Tadonia	Individual jumping	17	69	32	49	68	Eliminated

Team jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Team qualifier		Team round 1		Team round 2		Team jump off
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total penalties	Rank
From: Huang Zuping Li Zhenqiang Zhang Bin Zhao Zhiwen	as above	Team	36	15	99	16	Eliminated

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Li Guojie	Individual épée	Wiercioch (POL) W 15-11	Jin (KOR) L 6-15	Did not advance
Wang Lei	Individual épée	n/a	Verwijlen (NED) L 10-15	Did not advance
Yin Lianchi	Individual épée	n/a	Kulcsar (HUN) W 15-9	Zawrotniak (POL) L 13-15	Did not advance
Lei Sheng	Individual foil	n/a		Mocek (POL) W 15-8	Kleibrink (GER) L 7-15	Did not advance		8
Zhu Jun	Individual foil	n/a	Gonzalez (ARG) W 15-2	Meinhardt (USA) W 15-9	Cassara (ITA) W 15-14	Kleibrink (GER) L 4-15	Sanzo (ITA) L 14-15	4
Wang Jingzhi	Individual sabre	n/a	Pillet (FRA) L 14-15	Did not advance
Zhong Man	Individual sabre	n/a	Kothny (THA) W 15-7	Marti (ESP) W 15-14	Tarantino (ITA) W 15-13	Pillet (FRA) W 15-12	Lopez (FRA) W 15-9
Zhou Hanming	Individual sabre	n/a	Nemcsik (HUN) W 15-13	Covaliu (ROU) L 12-15	Did not advance
Dong Guotao Li Guojie Wang Lei Yin Lianchi	Team épée	n/a		South Africa W 45-28	Hungary W 45-43	Poland L 44-45	Italy L 35-45	4
Huang Yaojiang Wang Jingzhi Zhong Man Zhou Hanming	Team sabre	n/a			Russia L 36-45	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Li Na	Individual épée	n/a		Lamon (SUI) W 15-10	Flessel-Colovic (FRA) W 15-10	Heidemann (GER) L 13-15	Mincza-Nébald (HUN) L 11-15	4
Zhong Weiping	Individual épée	n/a	Flessel-Colovic (FRA) L 11-13	Did not advance
Su Wanwen	Individual foil	Nogueira (POR) W 15-4	Cross (USA) W 15-7	Knapek (HUN) L 10-15	Did not advance
Sun Chao	Individual foil	n/a	Knapik (HUN) L 13-15	Did not advance
Zhang Lei	Individual foil	n/a	Wojtkowiak (POL) W 15-8	Vezzali (ITA) L 7-10	Did not advance
Bao Yingying	Individual sabre	n/a	Chow (HKG) W 15-5	Więckowska (POL) W 15-6	Zagunis (USA) L 9-15	Did not advance
Huang Haiyang	Individual sabre	n/a	Bianco (ITA) L 12-15	Did not advance
Tan Xue	Individual sabre	n/a	Bujdoso (GER) W 15-6	Kim (KOR) W 15-8	Velikaya (RUS) L 9-15	Did not advance
Huang Jialing Su Wanwen Sun Chao Zhang Lei	Team foil	n/a			Italy L 24-37	Did not advance
Bao Yingying Huang Haiyang Ni Hong Tan Xue	Team sabre	n/a			Poland W 45-25	France W 45-38	Ukraine L 44-45

Field hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men's tournament

China's men's team competed in Pool A. Sixteen players were officially enrolled in the squad.^[15] Two reserve players were also nominated to be available should a player enrolled in the official squad become injured during the tournament.^[15]

Preliminary round Pool A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Spain	12	5	4	0	1	9	5	+4
Germany	11	5	3	2	0	12	6	+6
Korea	7	5	2	1	2	13	11	+2
New Zealand	7	5	2	1	2	10	9	+1
Belgium	4	5	1	1	3	9	13	−4
China	1	5	0	1	4	7	16	−9

     Qualified for semifinals

11 August 08:30
	Germany	4 – 1	China	Umpires: David Leiper (GBR) Satinder Kumar (IND)
	C. Zeller 21' Keller 43' 54' Nevado 68'		Na Yubo 7'
	Weißenborn 38'	≪ Discipline ≫	Song Yi 52'

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13 August 10:30
	China	2 – 5	Korea	Umpires: Amarjit Singh (MAS) Henrik Ehlers (DEN)
	Na Yubo 6' Song Yi 8'		Seo Jong-Ho 13' Jang Jong-Hyun 35+' 55' 57' Kang Seong-Jung 67'
	Hu Liang 12' 45' Yu Yang 18' Luo Fangming 24'	≪ Discipline ≫	Lee Nam-Yong 12' Cha Jong-Bok 22' You Hyo-Sik 30'

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15 August 08:30
	Spain	2 – 1	China	Umpires: David Gentles (AUS) Kim Hong-Lae (KOR)
	Ribas 17' Amat 67'		Na Yubo 6'
	Freixa 69'	≪ Discipline ≫	Hu Huiren 27' Na Yubo 57'

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17 August 18:30
	New Zealand	2 – 2	China	Umpires: Murray Grime (AUS) Andy Mair (GBR)
	Child 34' McAleese 54'		Song Yi 3' 17'
		≪ Discipline ≫	Song Yi 20' Sun Tianjun 21' Meng Lizhi 58'

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19 August 21:00
	China	1 – 3	Belgium	Umpires: Murray Grime (AUS) Gary Simmonds (RSA)
	Song Yi 4'		Reckinger 28' Truyens 32' Dohmen 48'
	Liu Xiantang 24' Meng Lizhi 26' Luo Fangming 28'	≪ Discipline ≫	Reckinger 13' Van den Balck 44' Gucassoff 52'

Eleventh and twelfth place

23 August 08:30
	China	4 – 3 (AET)	South Africa	Umpires: Rob ten Cate (NED) Satinder Kumar (IND)
	Na Yubo 32' Song Yi 53' 58' 85' (GG)		Tsolekile 3' Symons 63' Smith 70'
	Song Yi 16' 20' Meng Jun 25'	≪ Discipline ≫	Bam 12' Symons 16' Blake 20'

Women's tournament

China's women's team competed in Pool A. Sixteen players were officially enrolled in the squad.^[15] Two reserve players were also nominated to be available should a player enrolled in the official squad become injured during the tournament.^[15]

Preliminary round Pool A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Netherlands	15	5	5	0	0	14	3	+11
China	10	5	3	1	1	14	4	+10
Australia	10	5	3	1	1	17	9	+8
Spain	6	5	2	0	3	4	12	−8
Korea	3	5	1	0	4	13	18	−5
South Africa	0	5	0	0	5	2	18	−16

     Qualified for semifinals

10 August 10:30
	China	3 – 0	Spain	Umpires: Ute Conen (GER) Marelize de Clerk (RSA)
	Fu Baorong 17' Li Hongxia 31' Gao Lihua 37'
		≪ Discipline ≫	Termens 57' Team reprimand[16]

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12 August 18:30
	China	3 – 0	South Africa	Umpires: Gina Spitaleri (ITA) Minka Woolley (AUS)
	Tang Chunling 6' Fu Baorong 33' Zhao Yudiao 40'
	Li Shuang 52'	≪ Discipline ≫	Vida Ryan 25' Butler 33' Taylor 51'

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14 August 08:30
	China	0 – 1	Netherlands	Umpires: Chieko Soma (JPN) Soledad Iparruguirre (ARG)
			Paumen 21'
	Chen Qiuqi 43'	≪ Discipline ≫

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16 August 18:30
	Korea	1 – 6	China	Umpires: Julie Ashton-Lucy (AUS) Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
	Lee Seon-Ok 53'		Tang Chunling 30' 33' 41' Fu Baorong 39' 40' 64'
	Kim Jong-Eun 28'	≪ Discipline ≫	Ren Ye 17' Tang Chunling 25'

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18 August 21:00
	China	2 – 2	Australia	Umpires: Chieko Soma (JPN) Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
	Li Hongxia 30' 38'		Eastham 51' Sarah Young 62'
	Li Hongxia 61' Gao Lihua 67' Ma Yibo 70'	≪ Discipline ≫

Semifinals

20 August 18:00
	Germany	2 – 3	China	Umpires: Carolina de la Fuente (ARG) Julie Ashton-Lucy (AUS)
	Keller 4' Beermann 36'		Gao Lihua 31' Ma Yibo 39' Zhao Yudiao 58'
	Kühn 49'	≪ Discipline ≫	Ma Yibo 4' Tang Chunling 56' Gao Lihua 67'

Gold medal match

22 August 20:30
	China	0 – 2	Netherlands	Umpires: Soledad Iparraguirre (ARG) Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
			Van As 51' Goderie 62'

Football

Main article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men's tournament

A squad of 18 players, 15 of which must have bee born on or after 1 January 1985, and 3 of which can be older dispensation players, was selected to represent China at the Games.^[17] A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional dispensation goalkeeper) had to be included in the squad.^[17]

Group stage

2008-08-07 19:45	China PR	1 – 1	New Zealand	Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang Attendance: 41,407 Referee: Martín Vázquez (Uruguay)
	Dong  88'	(Report)	Brockie  53'

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2008-08-10 19:45	Belgium	2 – 0	China PR	Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang Attendance: 45,756 Referee: Héctor Baldassi (Argentina)
	Dembélé  8' Mirallas  80'	(Report)

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2008-08-13 19:45	China PR	0 – 3	Brazil	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, Qinhuangdao Attendance: 38,790 Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)
		(Report)	Diego  18' Thiago Neves  69'  73'

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9
Belgium	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	6
China PR	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
New Zealand	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1

Women's tournament

A squad of 18 players competed for China in the women's competition.

Group stage

2008-08-06 19:45	China PR	2 – 1	Sweden	Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin Attendance: 37,902 Referee: Hong Eun-ah (Korea Republic)
	Xu  6' Han  72'	(Report)	Schelin  38'

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2008-08-09 19:45	Canada	1 – 1	China PR	Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Tianjin Attendance: 52,600 Referee: Dagmar Damková (Czech Republic)
	Sinclair  34'	(Report)	Xu  36'

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2008-08-12 19:45	China PR	2 – 0	Argentina	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, Qinhuangdao Attendance: 31,492 Referee: Nicole Petignat (Switzerland)
	Han  52' Gu  90'	(Report)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
China PR	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Sweden	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
Canada	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Argentina	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Quarterfinals

2008-08-15 21:00	China PR	0 – 2	Japan	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, Qinhuangdao Attendance: 28,459 Referee: Christine Beck (Germany)
		(Report)	Sawa  15' Nagasato  79'

Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Artistic

Men's team

Qualification stage

Athlete	Apparatus						Individual all-around
	Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Vault	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar	Total	Rank
Chen Yibing	14.725	14.475	16.525 Q	16.275	15.075	14.525	91.600	9 Q
Huang Xu		15.300	15.300		16.075 Q		46.675	73
Li Xiaopeng	15.100		14.800	16.775	16.425 Q	15.400	78.500	45
Xiao Qin	14.375	16.000 Q		15.725	15.450	15.150	76.700	46
Yang Wei	15.400	15.425 Q	16.225 Q	16.550	15.350	14.925	93.875	1 Q
Zou Kai	15.700 Q			15.700		15.600 Q	47.000	72
Team totals	60.925	61.200	62.850	65.325	63.300	61.075	374.675	1 T

Italics indicate the low (non-counting) score
Legend: Q = qualified for individual final T = qualified for team final R = reserve for individual final

Team final

Athlete	Apparatus						Rank
	Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Vault	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar
Chen Yibing	14.575		16.575	15.950
Huang Xu		14.750	16.000		16.475
Li Xiaopeng				16.775	16.450	15.725
Xiao Qin		16.100				15.250
Yang Wei	15.425	15.175	16.300	16.600	16.100
Zou Kai	15.925					15.975
Team totals	45.925	46.025	48.875	49.325	49.025	46.950	286.125

Men's individual

Athlete	Event	Final
		Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Vault	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar	Total	Rank
Yang Wei	Individual all-around	15.250	15.275	16.625	16.550	16.100	14.775	94.575
	Pommel horse		15.450					15.450	4
	Rings			16.425				16.425
Chen Yibing	Individual all-around	—	13.750	16.650	15.900	14.950	12.975	74.225	24
	Rings			16.600				16.600
Zou Kai	Horizontal bar						16.200	16.200
	Floor	16.050						16.050
Xiao Qin	Pommel horse		15.875					15.875
Li Xiaopeng	Parallel bars					16.450		16.450
Huang Xu	Parallel bars					15.700		15.700	6

Women's team

Qualification stage Athlete Apparatus Individual all-around Vault Uneven bars Balance beam Floor Total Rank Cheng Fei 16.150 Q 15.875 Q 15.750 Q 47.775 63 Deng Linlin 15.225 14.725 15.550 14.950 60.450 9 He Kexin 15.250 15.725 Q 30.975 80 Jiang Yuyan 14.775 15.550 15.250 15.050 Q 60.625 7 Q Li Shanshan 16.125 Q 14.200 30.325 83 Yang Yilin 15.200 16.650 Q 15.500 15.000 62.350 3 Q Team totals 61.825 62.650 63.050 60.750 248.275 1 T Italics indicate the low(non-counting) score Legend: Q = qualified for individual final T = qualified for team final R = reserve for individual final

Team final Athlete Apparatus Rank Vault Uneven bars Balance beam Floor Cheng Fei 16.000 15.150 15.450 Deng Linlin 15.250 15.925 15.150 He Kexin 16.850 Jiang Yuyan 15.975 15.200 Li Shanshan 16.050 Yang Yilin 15.100 16.800 Team totals 46.350 49.625 47.125 45.800 188.900

Women's individual

Athlete	Event	Final
		Vault	Uneven bars	Balance beam	Floor	Total	Rank
Cheng Fei	Balance beam			15.950		15.950
	Vault	15.852				15.852
	Floor				14.550	14.550	7
Yang Yilin	Individual all-around	15.175	16.725	15.750	15.000	62.650
	Uneven bars		16.650			16.650
Jiang Yuyuan	Individual all-around	14.825	15.875	15.425	14.775	60.900	6
	Floor				15.350	15.350	4
He Kexin	Uneven bars		16.725			16.725
Li Shanshan	Balance beam			15.300		15.300	6

Rhythmic

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Hoop	Rope	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Rope	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Li Hongyang	Individual	16.675	16.425	16.375	16.475	65.950	13	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		5 ropes	3 hoops + 2 clubs	Total	Rank	5 ropes	3 hoops + 2 clubs	Total	Rank
Cai Tongtong Chou Tao Lü Yuanyang Sui Jianshuang Sun Dan Zhang Shuo	Team	17.300	17.225	34.525	3	17.575	17.650	35.225

Trampoline

Athlete	Event	Qualification 1		Qualification 2		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Dong Dong	Men's individual	31.00	2	40.70	3	40.60
Lu Chunlong	Men's individual	31.20	1	41.20	1	41.00
He Wenna	Women's individual	30.10	1	37.10	1	37.80
Huang Shanshan	Women's individual	30.00	2	29.00	15	Did not advance

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men's tournament

Men's Team: The men's team are relative minnows in the handball world. This was the first time that China had competed in the Olympics. China was drawn in Group A with Poland, France, Croatia, Brazil and Spain.

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
France	5	4	1	0	148	115	33	9
Poland	5	3	1	1	147	128	19	7
Croatia	5	3	0	2	140	115	25	6
Spain	5	3	0	2	152	145	7	6
Brazil	5	1	0	4	129	153	-24	2
China	5	0	0	5	104	164	-60	0

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

10 August 19:00	Poland	33–19	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Karbas (IRI), Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Jurasik 8	(Report)	Zhu, Hao, Tian, Wang, Cui 3

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12 August 14:00	China	19–33	France	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Canbro (SWE), Claesson (SWE)
	Hao 5	(Report)	Abalo, Guigou, Karabatic 5

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14 August 15:45	China	22–36	Spain	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Elmoamli (EGY), Shaban Ali (EGY)
	Cui 5	(Report)	Tomas 7

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16 August 09:00	Brazil	29–22	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Elmoamli (EGY), Shaban Ali (EGY)
	Ribeiro, Laureano 5	(Report)	Cui, Cui 4

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18 August 15:45	Croatia	33–22	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Karbas-Chi (IRI), Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Šprem 8	(Report)	Hao 6

Women's tournament

The women's team was made up of 14 players.

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
Norway	5	5	0	0	154	106	+48	10
Romania	5	4	0	1	150	112	+38	8
China	5	2	0	3	122	135	-13	4
France	5	2	0	3	121	128	-7	4
Kazakhstan	5	1	1	3	109	137	-28	3
Angola	5	0	1	4	109	147	-38	1

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

August 9 19:00	Norway	30–23	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Elmoamli (EGY), Shaban Ali (EGY)
	Hammerseng 7	(Report)	Li W 8

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August 11 19:00	China	20–34	Romania	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Liudownyk (UKR), Vakula (UKR)
	Wei 6	(Report)	Amariei 9

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August 13 15:45	China	32–24	Angola	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Canbro (SWE), Claesson (SWE)
	Liu 7	(Report)	De Almeida 8

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August 15 09:00	Kazakhstan	29–26	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Lemme (GER), Ullrich (GER)
	Pikalova 8	(Report)	Li W 11

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August 17 15:45	France	18–21	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Liudowyk (UKR), Vakula (UKR)
	Ayglon 5	(Report)	Wu 5

Quarterfinals

19 August 18:00	South Korea	31–23	China	Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium Referees: Aires (BRA), Aparecido (BRA)
	Park 8	(Report)	Huang 5

Classification

21 August 12:00	Sweden	19–20	China	Beijing National Indoor Stadium Referees: Karbas-Chi (IRI), Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Torstenson 6	(Report)	Wang S. 5

5th/6th classification

23 August 10:15	China	23–31	France	Beijing National Indoor Stadium Referees: Krstic (SLO), Ljubic (SLO)
	Liu Y. 7	(Report)	Herbrecht, Pecqueux-Rolland 7

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First repechage round	Repechage quarterfinals	Repechage semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Liu Renwang	−60 kg	n/a	Utarbayev (KAZ) W 0001-0000	Kishmakov (RUS) L 0000-0100	Did not advance
Wu Ritubilige	−66 kg	n/a	Ungvari (HUN) L 0001-0011	Did not advance
Si Rijigawa	−73 kg	n/a	Vizcaya (VEN) W 0001-0000	Huysuz (TUR) W 0010-0001	Boqiev (TJK) L 0001-1110	Did not advance			Bilodid (UKR) L 0000-0001	Did not advance
Guo Lei	−81 kg	n/a	Vis (ARU) W 1100-0000	Mrvaljevic (MNE) L 0001-0111	Did not advance
He Yanzhu	−90 kg	n/a	Santos (BRA) L 0000-1000	Did not advance
Shao Ning	−100 kg	n/a	Matyjaszek (POL) L 0000-1101	Did not advance
Pan Song	+100 kg	n/a	Dzhanagulov (KGZ) W 1001-0001	Tmenov (KGZ) L 0000-0200	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First repechage round	Repechage quarterfinals	Repechage semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Wu Shugen	−48 kg	n/a	Tani (JPN) L 0000-0100	Did not advance
Xian Dongmei	−52 kg	n/a		Carrascosa (ESP) W 1000-0000	Monteiro (POR) W 1011-0010	Haddad (ALG) W 1001-0000	Repechage not needed			An (PRK) W 0011-0001
Xu Yan	−57 kg	n/a	Latrous (ALG) W 1001-0001	Koivumaki (FIN) W 0020-0000	Sato (JPN) W 0010-0002	Gravenstein (NED) L 0001-0100	Repechage not needed			Harel (FRA) W 0011-0001
Xu Yuhua	−63 kg	n/a	Kong (KOR) L 0100-0012	Did not advance
Wang Juan	−70 kg	n/a	Ueno (JPN) L 0001-1011	Did not advance
Yang Xiuli	−78 kg	n/a	Proskurakovas (KGZ) W 1000-0000	Lkhamdegd (MGL) W 1021-0000	Levesque (CAN) W 1000-0000	San Miguel (ESP) W 1031-0000	Repechage not needed			Castillo (CUB) W 0000-0000
Tong Wen	+78 kg	n/a	Donguzashvili (RUS) W 1000-0000	Prokof'yeva (UKR) W 1000-0000	Kim (KOR) W 1001-0000	Ortiz (CUB) W 0010-0000	Repechage not needed			Tsukada (JPN) W 1001-0010

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Shoot		Fence		Swim		Ride		Run		Total points	Rank
		Score	Point	Victories	Point	Time	Point	Score	Point	Time	Point
Qian Zhenhua	Men's	189	1204	26	1024	2:07.46	1272	70.18	1032	10:04.40	984	5516	4
Cao Zhongrong	Men's	160	856	21	904	2:01.53	1344	134.96	712	09:57.67	1012	4828	31
Chen Qian	Women's	177	1060	20	880	2:18.58	1260	68.65	1200	10:27.41	1212	5612	5
Xiu Xiu	Women's	183	1132	19	856	2:17.17	1276	69.84	1144	11:06.31	1056	5464	10

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A nation may earn up to 1 boat in each of the 14 rowing events. China qualified for 11 of the total 14 rowing events.

Zhang Liang was disqualified from the Men's single sculls after he forgot the time of his race and failed to turn to the right heat. When Liang finally arrived to take part in the single scull the competition had already finished. "I wrongly remembered my time as that of the third group, but actually it was the second group", he explained. The rules of the International Rowing Federation say if an athlete fails to attend a race he forfeits his right to compete in further races. Therefore Zhang not only missed the single sculls but also forfeited his right to compete in the final of the double sculls. This meant his action had also automatically disqualified his team-mate Su Hui. The China Water Sports Administration appealed the decision but the plea was rejected. "This shows we still have some problems in team organization", commented Wei Di, the director of China's water sports programs.^[18]

Men

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinal		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Zhang Liang	Single sculls	Did not start		Did not advance
Su Hui Zhang Liang	Double sculls	Did not start		Did not advance
Zhang Guolin Sun Jie	Lightweight double sculls	6:17.62	2	Repechage not needed		n/a		6:29.29	3	6:16.69	5
Zhang Xingbo Zhao Linquan Guo Kang Song Kai	Fours	6:09.64	4	6:02.37	4	Did not advance
Zhang Dechang Qu Xiaoming Wang Jingfeng Liu Zhen Zhou Yinan Zhang Shunyin Zheng Chuanqi Zhang Yongqiang Wang Xiangdang	Eights	5:35.09	3	5:42.97	5	n/a				5:34.59	7
Huang Zhongming Wu Chongkui Zhang Lin Tian Jun	Lightweight fours	5:51.30	1	Repechage not needed		n/a		6:12.55	5	6:04.48	8

Women

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinal		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Zhang Xiuyun	Single sculls	7:38.16	1	Repechage not needed		7:23.30	2	7:31.33	1	7:25.48	4
Wu You Gao Yulan	Pairs	7:32.50	3	7:23.71	1	n/a				7:22.28
Li Qin Tian Liang	Double sculls	7:03.13	1	Repechage not needed		n/a				7:15.85	4
Xu Dongxiang Yu Hua	Lightweight double sculls	6:57.58	1	Repechage not needed		n/a		7:11.59	2	7:01.90	5
Tang Bin Jin Ziwei Xi Aihua Zhang Yangyang	Quadruple sculls	6:11.83	1	Repechage not needed		n/a				6:16.06

Sailing

Main articles: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

China has qualified for all 11 sailing events.

Men Athlete Event Race Score Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Wang Aichen Sailboard 2 8 9 16 2 14 22 14 19 1 10 95 7 Shen Sheng Laser 40 35 6 4 37 14 10 28 25 CAN NQ 159 20 Deng Daokun Wang Weidong 470 12 DSQ 23 16 21 26 OCS 22 8 28 NQ 186 26 Li Hongquan Wang He Star 16 16 16 14 16 16 15 15 16 16 NQ 140 16

Women Athlete Event Race Score Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Yin Jian Sailboard 1 1 1 3 3 13 7 8 8 1 6 39 Xu Lijia Laser Radial 24 3 10 6 5 2 1 16 6 CAN 6 50 Wen Yimei Yu Chunyan 470 5 10 19 17 16 14 OCS 12 16 10 NQ 119 18 Song Xiaoqun Yu Yanli Li Xiaoni Yngling 7 5 DSQ 4 13 6 8 4 CAN CAN 8 65.0 9

Open

Athlete	Event	Race																Score	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Zhang Peng	Finn	25	23	24	20	5	26	23	11	23	11	NQ	n/a					131.0	24
Li Fei Hu Xianqiang	49er	18	19	19	19	16	17	15	17	15	14	18	9	CAN	CAN	CAN	NQ	176.0	19
Chen Xiuke Luo Youjia	Tornado	9	14	OCS	DNF	13	5	14	13	12	14	NQ	n/a					102	14

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men Athlete Event Qualification Final Rank Score Rank Score Total Cao Yifei 10 m air rifle 593 — Not qualified Zhu Qinan 10 m air rifle 597 2 102.7 2 Jia Zhanbo 50 m rifle prone 591 27 Not qualified 50 m rifle three positions 1163 24 Not qualified Qiu Jian 50 m rifle prone 593 19 Not qualified 50 m rifle three positions 1173 4 99.5 1272.5 Pang Wei 10 m air pistol 586 1 102.2 688.2 Tan Zongliang 10 m air pistol 580 11 Not qualified 50 m pistol 565 1 94.5 659.5 Liu Zhongsheng 25 m rapid fire pistol 572* 9 Not qualified Zhang Penghui 25 m rapid fire pistol Disqualified Lin Zhongzai 50 m pistol 555 16 Not qualified Jin Di Skeet 118 7 Not qualified Qu Ridong Skeet 118 6 24 142 6 Li Yajun Trap 113 21 Not qualified Li Yang Trap 115 16 Not qualified Wang Nan Double Trap 134 12 Not qualified Hu Binyuan Double Trap 138 3 46 184

Women Athlete Event Qualification Final Rank Score Rank Score Total Du Li 10 m air rifle 399 4 100.6 499.6 5 Zhao Yinghui 10 m air rifle 389 37 Not qualified Wu Liuxi 50 m rifle three positions 585 7 100.9 685.9 8 Chen Ying 25 m pistol 585 3 208.4 793.4 Fei Fengji 25 m pistol 292 3 290 582 7 Guo Wenjun 10 m air pistol 390 2 102.3 492.3 Ren Jie 10 m air pistol 381 19 Not qualified Wei Ning skeet 70 5 21 91 8 Liu Yingzi trap 63 6 Not qualified

Softball

Main article: Softball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

A squad of 15 players made up China's women's team at the Games. The team finished sixth in the group stage and did not advance to the medal matches.

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Team	W	L	RS	RA	WIN%	GB	Tiebreaker
United States	7	0	53	1	1.000	-	-
Japan	6	1	23	13	.857	1	-
Australia	5	2	30	11	.714	2	-
Canada	3	4	17	23	.429	4	-
Chinese Taipei	2	5	10	23	.286	5	2-0 vs. CHN/VEN
China	2	5	19	21	.286	5	1-1 vs. TPE/VEN
Venezuela	2	5	15	35	.286	5	0-2 vs. CHN/TPE
Netherlands	1	6	8	48	.143	6	-

Results

Group stage All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 5 1 4 10 13 1  Netherlands 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 3 WP: Huili Yu(1-0)   LP: Kristi de Varies(0-1) Home runs: CHN: Lifang Zhang(1), Zhou Yi(1) NED: Marloes Fellinger(1)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  China 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 7 10 1  Venezuela 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 0 WP: Wei Lu(1-0)   LP: Mariangee Bogado(0-1) Home runs: CHN: Yanhong Yu(1) VEN: None

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  China 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0  Australia 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 2 WP: Tanya Harding(1-1)   LP: Huili Yu(1-1) Home runs: CHN: None AUS: Simmone Morrow(1,2)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0  Canada 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 2 WP: Lauren Bay(2-0)   LP: Wei Lu(1-1) Home runs: CHN: None CAN: Jennifer Yee(1)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  Japan 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 0  China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 WP: Yukiko Ueno(2-0)   LP: Wei Lu(1-2)   Sv: Hiroko Sakai(1) Home runs: JPN: Rie Sato(1) CHN: None

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  Chinese Taipei 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 1  China 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 WP: Ming-Hui Chueh(1-0)   LP: Huili Yu(1-2)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E  China 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 1 1  United States 9 0 0 0 X X X 9 9 0 WP: Cat Osterman(3-0)   LP: Wei Lu(1-3) Home runs: CHN: None USA: Kelly Kretschman(1)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

17 swimmers

Event	Athletes	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
50 m freestyle	Cai Li	22.50	30	Did not advance
100 m freestyle	Chen Zuo	49.08	25	Did not advance
200 m freestyle	Zhang Enjian	1:49.15	33	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	Sun Yang	3:50.90	28			Did not advance
	Zhang Lin	3:43.32	2			3:42.44
1500 m freestyle	Sun Yang	14:48.39	7			15:05.12	8
	Zhang Lin	14:45.84	4			14:55.20	7
100 m backstroke	Sun Xiaolei	56.44	37	Did not advance
200 m backstroke	Deng Jian	2:03.34	37	Did not advance
100 m breaststroke	Xue Ruipeng	1:02.48	46	Did not advance
200 m breaststroke	Lai Zhongjian	2:16.28	44	Did not advance
100 m butterfly	Shi Feng	51.87	12	51.68	9	Did not advance
200 m butterfly	Chen Yin	1:56.55	15	1:55.88	11	Did not advance
	Wu Peng	1:55.39	7	1:54.93	5	1:54.35	5
200 m individual medley	Qu Jingyu	2:03.15	34	Did not advance
4×100 m freestyle	Chen Zuo Huang Shaohua Lü Zhiwu Cai Li	3:16.16 AS Chen 49.16 Huang 48.83 Lu 48.72 Cai 49.45	12			Did not advance
4×200 m freestyle	Zhang Lin Zhang Enjian Sun Yang Shi Haoran	7:13.57 Zhang L 1:46.13 Zhang E 1:49.31 Sun 1:48.73 Shi 1:49.40	10			Did not advance
10 km marathon	Xin Tong					2:09:13.4	23

Women

31 swimmers

Event	Athletes	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
50 m freestyle	Li Zhesi	25.00	12	24.90	5	Did not advance
	Zhu Yingwen	24.91	7	24.76	3	Did not advance
100 m freestyle	Pang Jiaying	54.01 AS	7	DSQ
	Zhu Yingwen	54.01 AS	7	53.84 AS	3	54.21	6
200 m freestyle	Pang Jiaying	1:57.37 OR	6	1:57.34	4	1:55.05
	Zhu Qianwei	1:59.52	19	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	Li Mo	4:15.50	26			Did not advance
	Tan Miao	4:12.35	22			Did not advance
800 m freestyle	Li Xuanxu	8:24.37	7			8:26.34	5
	You Meihong	8:31.11	15			Did not advance
100 m backstroke	Xu Tianlongzi	1:00.82	17	Did not advance
	Zhao Jing	DSQ
200 m backstroke	Chen Yanyan	2:11.95	19	Did not advance
	Zhao Jing	2:08.97	4	2:09.59	10	Did not advance
100 m breaststroke	Chen Huijia	1:08.24	12	1:08.60	12	Did not advance
	Sun Ye	1:07.81	6	1:07.72	6	1:08.08	7
200 m breaststroke	Luo Nan	2:29.67	26	Did not advance
	Qi Hui	2:26.16	13	2:27.63	13	Did not advance
100 m butterfly	Xu Yanwei	59.43	32	Did not advance
	Zhou Yafei	57.70 AS*	2	57.68	5	57.84	4
200 m butterfly	Jiao Liuyang	2:06.89	4	2:06.42	3	2:04.72
	Liu Zige	2:06.46	1	2:06.25	1	2:04.18
200 m individual medley	Li Jiaxing	2:12.53	12	2:13.47	15	Did not advance
	Qi Hui	2:14.25	20	Did not advance
400 m individual medley	Li Xuanxu	4:36.35	6			4:42.13	8
	Liu Jing	4:44.96	25			Did not advance
4×100 m freestyle	Zhu Yingwen Tang Yi Xu Yanwei Pang Jiaying	3:36.78 AS Zhu 54.53 Tang 54.29 Xu 55.13 Pang 52.83	1			3:35.64 Zhu 54.12 Tang 54.19 Xu 54.64 Pang 52.69	4
4×200 m freestyle	Yang Yu Zhu Qianwei Tan Miao Pang Jiaying Tang Jingzhi*	7:53.77 AS Yang 1:57.49 Tan 1:58.84 Tang 2:00.20 Zhu 1:57.24	4			7:45.93 AS Yu 1:56.79 Zhu 1:56.64 Tan 1:58.11 Pang 1:54.39
4×100 m medley	Xu Tianlongzi Sun Ye Zhou Yafei Pang Jiaying Zhao Jing	3:59.21 AS Xu 1:01.13 Sun 1:06.85 Zhou 56.94 Pang 54.29	4			3:56.11 Sun 2:06.31 Zhou F 3:03.71 Pang 3:56.11 Zhao 59.56
10 km marathon	Fang Yanqiao					2:01:07.9	19

*Participated in the heats only and received medal.

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

China finished fourth at the 2007 world championships and hope to medal in the event for the first time ever at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The Chinese are coached by Masayo Imura (zh:井村雅代, ja:井村雅代), the legendary Japanese synchronized swimming instructor.

Further information: Team profile

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)		Free routine (final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jiang Tingting Jiang Wenwen	Women's duet	96.167	4	97.000	3	96.500	4
Gu Beibei Huang Xuechen Jiang Tingting Jiang Wenwen Liu Ou Luo Qian Sun Qiuting Wang Na Zhang Xiaohuan	Women's team	97.167	3	n/a		97.500

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ma Lin	Men's singles	n/a			Tokic (SLO) W 4-0	Kreanga (GRE) W 4-0	Oh (KOR) W 4-0	Wang L. (CHN) W 4-2	Wang H. (CHN) W 4-1
Wang Hao	Men's singles	n/a			Chen (AUT) W 4-0	Kan (JPN) W 4-1	Ko (HKG) W 4-1	Persson (SWE) W 4-1	Ma (CHN) L 1-4
Wang Liqin	Men's singles	n/a			Błaszczyk (POL) W 4-0	Schlager (AUT) W 4-0	Ruiwu (CRO) W 4-0	Ma (CHN) L 2-4	Persson (SWE) W 4-0
Guo Yue	Women's singles	n/a			Lau (HKG) W 4-0	Li (NED) W 4-0	Wu (DOM) W 4-0	Wang (CHN) L 2-4	Li (SIN) W 4-2
Wang Nan	Women's singles	n/a			Pota (HUN) W 4-0	Park (KOR) W 4-2	Tie (HKG) W 4-1	Guo (CHN) W 4-2	Zhang (CHN) L 1-4
Zhang Yining	Women's singles	n/a			Pavlovich (BLR) W 4-0	Fukuhara (JPN) W 4-1	Feng (SIN) W 4-1	Li (SIN) W 4-1	Wang (CHN) W 4-1

Men's team

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team

• Wang Hao
• Ma Lin
• Wang Liqin
• Chen Qi (reserve)

Group round August 13 China 3–0 Greece August 14 China 3–0 Australia China 3–0 Austria

Team Pts Pld W L GW GL  China 6 3 3 0 9 0  Austria 5 3 2 1 6 3  Greece 4 3 1 2 3 6  Australia 3 3 0 3 0 9

Semifinals August 16 China 3–0 South Korea

Final August 18 China 3–0 Germany

Women's team

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team

• Zhang Yining
• Guo Yue
• Wang Nan
• Li Xiaoxia (reserve)

Group round August 13 China 3–0 Croatia China 3–0 Dominican Republic August 14 China 3–0 Austria

Team Pts Pld W L GW GL  China 6 3 3 0 9 0  Austria 5 3 2 1 6 3  Croatia 4 3 1 2 3 7  Dominican Republic 3 3 0 3 1 9

Semifinals August 15 China 3-0 Hong Kong, China

Final August 17 China 3–0 Singapore

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage quarterfinals	Repechage semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Zhu Guo	Men's −80 kg	Ferrera (HON) W 3-1	Saei (IRI) L 2-3	Did not advance	Bista (NEP) W 6-2	Cook (GBR) W 4-1	Did not advance
Liu Xiaobo	Men's +80 kg	Beach (NZL) W 4-1	Matos (CUB) L 1-2	Did not advance
Wu Jingyu	Women's −49 kg	Alango (KEN) W 7-0	Zajc (SWE) W 8-1	Yang (TPE) W 4-1	Repechage not needed		Puedpong (THA) W 1-(-1)
Chen Zhong	Women's +67 kg	Carmona (VEN) W 3-1	Stevenson (GBR) W 1-0 L 1-2 Protested	Did not advance

Tennis

Main articles: Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sun Peng	Singles	F González (CHI) L 4-6, 4-6	Did not advance
Yu Xinyuan	Singles	T Berdych (CZE) L 1-6, 2-6	Did not advance
Zeng Shao-Xuan	Singles	D Nalbandian (ARG) L 2-6, 1-6	Did not advance
Zeng Shao-Xuan Yu Xinyuan	Doubles	n/a	M Fyrstenberg (POL)  M Matkowski (POL) L 3-6, 4-6	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Yan Zi	Singles	V Zvonareva (RUS) L 2-6, 0-6	Did not advance
Li Na	Singles	S Kuznetsova (RUS) W 7-6, 6-4	A Morita (JPN) W 6-2, 7-5	K Kanepi (EST) W 4-6, 6-2, 6-0	V Williams (USA) W 7-5, 7-5	D Safina (RUS) L 63-7, 5-7	V Zvonareva (RUS) L 0-6, 5-7	4
Peng Shuai	Singles	C Suárez Navarro (ESP) W 7-5, 7-6	A Cornet (FRA) L 2-6, 2-6	Did not advance
Zheng Jie	Singles	Á Szávay (HUN) W 4-6, 6-3, 7-5	N Llagostera Vives (ESP) W 6-7, 6-1, 6-4	D Safina (RUS) L 4-6, 3-6	Did not advance
Yan Zi Zheng Jie (8)	Doubles	n/a	D Hantuchová (SVK)  J Husárová (SVK) W 6-1, 7-6	P Schnyder (SUI)  E Gagliardi (SUI) W 6-3, 7-6(2)	S Kuznetsova (RUS)  D Safina (RUS) W 6-3, 7-5, 10-8	A M Garrigues (ESP)  V R Pascual (ESP) L 4-6, 65-7	A Bondarenko (UKR)  K Bondarenko (UKR) W 6-2, 6-2
Sun Tiantian Peng Shuai	Doubles	n/a	O Govortsova (BLR)  D Kustova (BLR) L 6-7, 6-7	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Swim	Cycling	Run	Total	Rank
Wang Daqing	Men's	18:06	59:15	37:17	1:55:41.87	46
Xing Lin	Women's	20:03	1:06:22	40:05	2:07:34.99	40
Zhang Yi	Women's	19:58	1:07:10	40:21	2:08:37.56	42

Volleyball

Main articles: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Beach

Men's tournament

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

• Team Xu-Wu

#	Name	Date of birth	Height	Spike	Block
1	Xu Linyin	20 March 1986(1986-03-20) (age 22)	200 cm (6 ft 7 in)	-	-
2	Wu Penggen	7 May 1982(1982-05-07) (age 26)	197 cm (6 ft 6 in)	-	-

Preliminary round Pool A

Rk	Team	Points	Won	Lost	PW	PL	SW	SL
1	Xu - Wu (CHN)	6	3	0	135	104	6	1
2	Herrera - Mesa (ESP)	5	2	1	114	107	4	2
3	Gosch - Horst (AUT)	4	1	2	111	133	2	5
4	Kais Kr. - Vesik (EST)	3	0	3	133	149	2	6

Aug 10 10:00	Xu - Wu (CHN)	2 – 0	Gosch - Horst (AUT)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	16 15

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Aug 12 10:00	Xu - Wu (CHN)	2 – 1	Kais Kr. - Vesik (EST)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	15 21 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	21 11 13

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Aug 14 16:00	Xu - Wu (CHN)	2 – 0	Herrera - Mesa (ESP)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	13 15

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Round of 16

Aug 16 10:00	Xu - Wu (CHN)	0 – 2	Klemperer - Koreng (GER)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	15 18	Set 1 Set 2	21 21

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Women's tournament

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

• Team Tian-Wang

#	Name	Date of birth	Height	Spike	Block
1	Tian Jia	9 February 1981(1981-02-09) (age 27)	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)	-	-
2	Wang Jie	4 December 1985(1985-12-04) (age 22)*	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)	-	-

*The FIVB website profile^[19] has age 22, the Beach Volleyball Database profile^[20] has age 24.

Preliminary round Pool A

Rk	Team	Points	Won	Lost	PW	PL	SW	SL
1	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	6	3	0	146	126	6	2
2	Maaseide - Glesnes (NOR)	5	2	1	130	121	5	2
3	Van Breedam - Mouha (BEL)	4	1	2	135	134	3	4
4	Kuhn - Schwer (SUI)	3	0	3	93	126	0	6

Aug 09 11:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 0	Kuhn - Schwer (SUI)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	12 18

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Aug 11 11:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 1	Van Breedam - Mouha (BEL)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	18 21 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	21 19 13

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Aug 13 11:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 1	Maaseide - Glesnes (NOR)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	17 21 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	21 14 8

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Round of 16

Aug 15 11:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 0	Håkedal - Tørlen (NOR)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	13 15

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Quarterfinal

Aug 17 11:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 0	Schwaiger - Schwaiger (AUT)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	12 12

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Semifinal

Aug 19 10:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 1	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	22 29 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	24 27 8

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Gold medal match

Aug 21 11:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	0 – 2	Walsh - May-Treanor (USA)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	18 18	Set 1 Set 2	21 21

• Team Xue-Zhang

#	Name	Date of birth	Height	Spike	Block
1	Xue Chen	18 February 1989(1989-02-18) (age 19)	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)	-	-
2	Zhang Xi	19 April 1985(1985-04-19) (age 23)	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	-	-

Preliminary round Pool D

Rk	Team	Points	Won	Lost	PW	PL	SW	SL
1	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	6	3	0	139	105	6	1
2	Goller - Ludwig (GER)	5	2	1	119	102	4	2
3	Koutroumanidou - Tsiartsiani (GRE)	4	1	2	127	120	3	4
4	Augoustides - Nel (RSA)	3	0	3	68	126	0	6

Aug 10 19:00	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	2 – 1	Koutroumanidou - Tsiartsiani (GRE)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 19 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	18 21 12

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Aug 12 19:00	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	2 – 0	Goller - Ludwig (GER)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	14 18

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Aug 14 10:00	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	2 – 0	Augoustides - Nel (RSA)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	13 9

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Round of 16

Aug 15 19:00	Esteves Ribalta - M. Crespo (CUB)	0 – 2	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	19 13	Set 1 Set 2	21 21

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Quarterfinal

Aug 17 20:00	Branagh - Youngs (USA)	0 – 2	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	17 13	Set 1 Set 2	21 21

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Semifinal

Aug 19 10:00	Tian Jia - Wang (CHN)	2 – 1	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	22 29 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	24 27 8

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Bronze medal match

Aug 21 09:00	Xue - Zhang Xi (CHN)	2 – 0	Talita - Renata (BRA)	Beach Volleyball Ground
	21 21	Set 1 Set 2	19 17

Indoor

Men's tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's team

A squad of 12 players represented China in the men's team competition.^[21]

Preliminary round Pool A

Rk	Team	Points	Played	Won	Lost	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1	United States	10	5	5	0	460	371	1.240	15	4	3.750
2	Italy	9	5	4	1	439	401	1.095	13	6	2.167
3	Bulgaria	8	5	3	2	446	440	1.014	10	9	1.111
4	China	7	5	2	3	445	492	0.904	9	13	0.692
5	Venezuela	6	5	1	4	421	451	0.933	8	12	0.667
6	Japan	5	5	0	5	392	448	0.875	4	15	0.267

Aug 10 20:00	Bulgaria	3 – 1	China	Capital Indoor Stadium Referee(s): Laert Souza de Francisco (Brazil)
	25 25 26 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4	20 21 28 19

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Aug 12 20:00	China	3 – 2	Venezuela	Capital Indoor Stadium Referee(s): Menghini Massimo (Italy)
	25 21 16 25 16	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	21 25 25 21 14

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Aug 14 20:00	China	3 – 2	Japan	Capital Indoor Stadium Referee(s): Bela Obor (Hungary)
	25 25 17 16 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	20 23 25 25 10

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Aug 16 10:00	China	0 – 3	United States	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: 3,650 Referee(s): Patrick Deregnaucourt (France)
	22 12 18	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

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Aug 18 20:00	China	2 – 3	Italy	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Mitch Davidson (Canada)
	17 23 25 25 14	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 25 21 20 16

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Quarterfinal

Aug 20 22:00	China	0–3;	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Massimo Menghihi (Italy)
	17 15 16 - -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 25 25 - -

Women's tournament

Main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's team

A squad of 12 players represented China in the women's team competition.^[22]

Preliminary round Pool A

Rk	Team	Points	Played	Won	Lost	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1	Cuba	10	5	5	0	426	371	1.148	15	3	5.000
2	United States	9	5	4	1	459	441	1.041	12	9	1.333
3	China	8	5	3	2	467	395	1.182	13	7	1.857
4	Japan	7	5	2	3	381	389	0.979	7	11	0.636
5	Poland	6	5	1	4	441	445	0.991	9	12	0.750
6	Venezuela	5	5	0	5	262	395	0.663	1	15	0.067

Aug 9 20:00	China	3 – 0	Venezuela	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee(s): Dejan Jovanovic (Serbia)
	25 25 25 - -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	13 13 18 - -

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Aug 11 20:00	China	3 – 1	Poland	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee(s): Rodriguez Victor Manuel (Puerto Rico)
	22 25 25 25 -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 15 20 22 -

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Aug 13 20:00	China	2 – 3	Cuba	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Frank Leuthauser (Germany)
	25 25 23 30 13	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	18 14 25 32 15

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Aug 15 20:00	United States	3 – 2	China	Capital Indoor Stadium Referee(s): Konstantin Tufekchiev (Bulgaria)
	23 25 23 25 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 22 25 20 11

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Aug 17 20:00	Japan	0 – 3	China	Capital Indoor Stadium
	24 16 14 - -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	26 25 25 - -

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Quarterfinal

Aug 19 20:00	China	3 – 0	Russia	Capital Indoor Stadium
	25 27 25 - -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	22 25 19 - -

Semifinal

Aug 21 20:00	China	0 – 3	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Frank Leuthauser (Germany), Andrei Zenovich (Russia)
	25 22 14 - -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	27 25 25 - -

Bronze medal match

Aug 23 12:30	Cuba	1 – 3	China	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Andrei Zenovich (Russia), Konstantin Tufekchiev (Bulgaria)
	16 25 13 20 -	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	25 21 25 25 -

Water polo

Main articles: Water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

China participated in both the men's and the women's tournaments. The men's team finished in 12th place, while the women's team finished in 5th place.

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

A squad of 13 players represented China in the men's competition. China were in Group B.

Group play

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Will play for places 7–10
	Will play for places 7–12

Teamv ·  United States	5	4	0	1	37	31	+6	8
Croatia	5	4	0	1	56	31	+25	8
Serbia	5	3	0	2	50	38	+12	6
Germany	5	2	0	3	33	44	−11	4
Italy	5	2	0	3	57	50	+7	4
China	5	0	0	5	25	64	−39	0

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

02008-08-10 10 August 2008 16:40 v	Game reference	United States	8 – 4	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Balfanbayev (KAZ), Brguljan (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 3-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-0
		Azevedo 5, Beaubien 2	Goals	Wang B. 2

12 August 2008 16:40 v	Game reference	Germany	6 – 5	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Moliner Molins (ESP), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 0-2, 5-2, 0-0, 1-1
		Savić 2, Schertwitis 2	Goals	Yu 2

14 August 2008 16:40 v	Game reference	China	7 – 19	Italy	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Kiszelly (HUN), Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 2-5, 2-5, 1-4, 2-5
		Xie 3, Han 2	Goals	Calcaterra 4, Gallo 3, Angelini 3, Di Costanzo 2, Felugo 2, Mistrangelo 2

16 August 2008 16:40 v	Game reference	Serbia	15 – 5	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Koryzna (POL), Oshima (JPN)
		Score by quarters: 5-2, 2-1, 4-2, 4-0
		Šapić 9, Vujasinović 3	Goals	Liang 3, Xie 2

18 August 2008 16:40 v	Game reference	China	4 – 16	Croatia	Ying Tung Natatorium
		Score by quarters: 0-4, 0-3, 1-1, 3-8
		Wu 2	Goals	Barač 4, Joković 3, Đogaš 2, Marković 2, Hinić 2

Classification round

Classification 7th–12th

20 August 2008 10:50 v	Game reference	Greece	13 – 8	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Balfanbayev (KAZ), Knights (NZL)
		Score by quarters: 3-1, 4-4, 2-0, 4-3
		Ntoskas 4, G. Afroudakis 3, C. Afroudakis 2	Goals	Xie 3, Wang Yo. 2

Classification 11th–12th

02008-08-22 22 August 2008 09:30 v	Game reference	Canada	8 – 7	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Koryzna (POL), Argyros (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 1-1, 3-1, 1-2, 3-3
		Boyd 2, Sayegh 2	Goals	Yu 2, Han 2

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

A squad of 13 players represented China in the women's competition. China were in Group A.

Group play

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Will play for places 7–8

Teamv ·  United States	3	2	1	0	33	27	+6	5
Italy	3	2	1	0	28	26	+2	5
China	3	1	0	2	33	33	0	2
Russia	3	0	0	3	26	34	−8	0

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

02008-08-11 11 August 2008 17:00 v	Game reference	United States	12 – 11	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Kiszelly (HUN), Tulga (TUR)
		Score by quarters: 3-3, 5-4, 2-2, 2-2
		Golda 4, Craig 3, Hayes 2	Goals	Gao 3, Teng 2, Sun Yu. 2, Sun H. 2

13 August 2008 17:00 v	Game reference	Russia	11 – 13	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Turcotte (CAN), Bock (GER)
		Score by quarters: 2-3, 5-4, 3-1, 1-5
		Pantyulina 3, Vylegzhanina 2	Goals	Sun Yu. 4, Gao 2, Sun H. 2

15 August 2008 17:00 v	Game reference	Italy	10 – 9	China	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Kiszelly (HUN), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 2-2, 4-2, 2-4, 2-1
		Casanova 4, di Mario 3	Goals	Sun Ya. 3, Wang Yi 2, Qiao 2

Medal round

Quarterfinal

17 August 2008 14:20 v	Game reference	China	11 – 12	Australia	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Patelli (BRA), Moliner Molins (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 4-4, 2-2, 2-4, 3-2
		Ma 3, Sun H. 2	Goals	Gynther 5, Cuffe 2, M. Rippon 2

Classification 5th–6th

19 August 2008 13:00 v	Game reference	China	10 – 7	Italy	Ying Tung Natatorium Referees: Tulga (TUR), Turcotte (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 3-1, 2-3, 1-3, 4-0
		Gao 4, Sun H. 2	Goals	di Mario 3, Zanchi 2

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

China automatically qualifies for 6 men's and 4 women's places.

Men Athlete Event Snatch Clean & jerk Total Rank Result Rank Result Rank Long Qingquan -56 kg 132 1 160 1 292 Zhang Xiangxiang -62 kg 143 1 176 1 319 Shi Zhiyong -69 kg 152 Did not finish Liao Hui -69 kg 158 1 190 1 348 Li Hongli -77 kg 168 1 198 2 366 Lu Yong -85 kg 180 2 214 1 394

Women Athlete Event Snatch (kg) Clean & jerk (kg) Total (kg) Rank Result Rank Result Rank Chen Xiexia -48 kg 95 1 117 1 212 Chen Yanqing -58 kg 106 1 138 1 244 Liu Chunhong -69 kg 128 1 158 1 286 Cao Lei -75 kg 128 1 154 1 282

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Total: 18 wrestlers

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Qin He	−60 kg	Quintana (CUB) L 1-4, 0-1	Did not advance
Wang Qiang	−66 kg	Spiridonov (KAZ) L 1-1, 0-4, 0-2	Did not advance
Si Riguleng	−74 kg	Fundora (CUB) L 5-7, 2-4	Did not advance
Wang Ying	−84 kg	Ketoev (RUS) L 2-2, 1-3	Did not advance
Liang Lei	−120 kg	Bartnicki (POL) W 1-1, 2-2	Mocco (USA) L 0-1, 0-3	Did not advance

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Li Xiaomei	−48 kg	n/a	Icho (JPN) L 1-0, 0-1, 0-1	Did not advance
Xu Li	−55 kg	n/a	Paval (JPN) W 5-0, 3-0	Smirnova (KAZ) W 0-1, 2-0, 2-1	Rentería (COL) W 5-5, F-0	Repechage not needed		Yoshida (JPN) L 2-0, 0-F
Xu Haiyan	−63 kg	n/a	Badrakh (MGL) W 5-3, 4-0	Dugrenier (CAN) L 1-2, 3-1, 0-1	Did not advance
Wang Jiao	−72 kg	n/a	Fransson (SWE) W 4-3, 6-0	Bernard (USA) W 3-1, 7-3	Hamaguchi (JPN) W 5-2, F-0	Repechage not needed		Zlateva (BUL) W F-0

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jiao Huafeng	−55 kg	n/a	Gogitadze (GEO) L 0-2, 0-2	Did not advance
Sheng Jiang	−60 kg	Rahimov (AZE) L 0-3, 1-2	Did not advance
Li Yanyan	−66 kg	n/a	Panait (ROU) W 2-2, 1-1	Bayakhmetov (KAZ) L 1-4, 4-2, 1-5	Did not advance
Chang Yongxiang	−74 kg	n/a	Yanakiev (BUL) W 3-2, 1-1	Barrera (PER) W 2-1, 7-0	Mikhalovich (BLR) W 0-6, 4-0, 2-1	Repechage not needed		Kvirkelia (GEO) L 0-6, 0-4
Ma Sanyi	−84 kg	n/a	Fodor (HUN) L 0-3, 1-2	Did not advance
Jiang Huachen	−96 kg	Bouguerra (ALG) W 5-0, 3-0	Wheeler (USA) L 7-0, 2-4, 1-1	Did not advance
Liu Deli	−120 kg	Papadopoulos (GRE) W 3-0, 1-1	Byers (USA) L 0-4, 1-1, 1-1	Did not advance

Records

By day^[23]

Date	Location	Record type	Sport	Event	Athlete(s)	Record
Aug 9	Beijing	Olympic Record	Weightlifting	Women's 48 kg	Chen Xiexia	117 kg (clean & jerk)
						212 kg (total)
Aug 10	Beijing	Final Olympic Record	Shooting	Women's 10 metre air pistol	Guo Wenjun	492.3
	Beijing	World Junior Record	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	Long Qingquan	132 kg (snatch)
						292 kg (total)
Aug 11		Olympic Record		Women's 58 kg	Chen Yanqing	138 kg (clean & jerk)
						244 kg (total)
Aug 13		Olympic Record		Women's 69 kg	Liu Chunhong	158 kg (clean & jerk)
		World Record
		Olympic Record				128 kg (snatch)
		World Record
		Olympic Record				286 kg (total)
		World Record
	Beijing	Final Olympic Record	Shooting	Women's 25 m pistol	Chen Ying	793.4
Aug 14	Beijing	World Record	Swimming	Women's 200 m butterfly	Liu Zige	00:02:04.180
		Olympic Record
	Beijing	Equalled Olympic Record	Shooting	Women's 50 metre rifle three positions	Du Li	589
		Final Olympic Record				690.3
Aug 15	Beijing	Olympic Record	Weightlifting	Women's 75 kg	Cao Lei	128 kg (snatch)
						154 kg (clean & jerk)
						282 kg (total)

Media coverage

The main rights to Olympic coverage in China are held by China Central Television (CCTV). The 2008 Summer Olympics will be the first ever to be broadcast in high definition (HDTV). Besides HDTV, CCTV will broadcast in digital cable TV. Live broadcasts will run on CCTV-1, CCTV-5 and CCTV-12, with re-run broadcasts on CCTV-2 and CCTV-7. CCTV.com, the only official Beijing Olympic Games mobile phone and Internet broadcast platform on the mainland and Macao, will broadcast 3,800 hours of the Olympic Games. CCTV will follow the homegrown mobile TV China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard. China Telecom, China Netcom and Shanghai Media Group will broadcast using Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services. Radio coverage will be provided by China National Radio (CNR). China Mobile will also enable subscribers to catch live results and data.

Major Chinese Internet portals have signed coverage deals with CCTV.com to be Internet Content Services Sponsors: Sina.com, Netease.com, Tencent and Sohu.com. CCTV has joined with these online partners to run an interactive website offering streaming video broadcasts of events, which will be viewable only in China, and web profiles through which users can contact Olympic athletes. Officials expect 10m to 20m internet users to watch the Olympic Games in China via video streaming. 102m people had watched the games online in China, according to Timo Lumme, marketing director for the IOC.^[24] Phoenix TV broadcasted the Opening Ceremony

Kit sponsorship

China competed in all 28 Olympic sports. US sportswear company Nike has a sponsorship deal with 22 Chinese sports associations to provide outfits for those Olympic teams at the Beijing Games. Germany's Adidas has the endorsement rights for China's volleyball and football teams while Chinese company Li-Ning is the provider of the shooting, gymnastics, diving and table tennis teams.^[25] Yonex is the main sponsor of the China Badminton Team.

See also

• China at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• China at the Olympics
• Sports in China

References

1. ^ Mulvenney, Nick (August 7). "Yao to carry China flag at opening ceremony". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSP31355520080807. Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Overall Medal Standings - Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games website
3. ^ "China's team by the numbers". En.beijing2008.cn. http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/official/noc/oca/n214477287.shtml. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
4. ^ "Host China announces biggest-ever Olympic team of 639 athletes", Xinhua, July 25, 2008.
5. ^ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/25/content_8767561.htm
6. ^ Magnay, Jacquelin (March 31, 2010). "London 2012 Olympics: Team GB's Olympic team expected to exceed 500". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/london2012/7542184/London-2012-Olympics-Team-GBs-Olympic-team-expected-to-exceed-500.html. 
7. ^ including artistic, rhythmic and trampoline
8. ^ including canoeing and kayaking, flatwater and slalom
9. ^ including indoor and beach
10. ^ including road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking and BMX
11. ^ "FITA press release". Archery.org. 2008-05-08. http://www.archery.org/content.asp?me_id=1250&cnt_id=2686. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
12. ^ Official website
13. ^ "World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007" (PDF). http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/World%20Championships/2007/2008%20Olympic%20Qualified%20Boxers.pdf. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
14. ^ "1st AIBA Asian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament". Aiba.org. http://www.aiba.org/default.aspx?pId=872. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
15. ^ ^{a b c d} XXIXth Olympic Games Tournament Regulations - Men's and Women's Hockey Competitions
16. ^ "TD Decision: Spanish Team". Worldhockey.org. http://www.fiholympics2008.sportcentric.com/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,5193-190425-19728-45264-288217-18193-5239-layout75-207648-news-item,00.html. Retrieved 2008-08-12. 
17. ^ ^{a b} Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments
18. ^ Juliet Macur. Two Chinese Medal Chances Row Away The New York Times. August 11.
19. ^ Athlete's biography - Wang Jie, FIVB
20. ^ Profile - Jie Wang, Beach Volleyball Database
21. ^ http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Team/9990730.shtml
22. ^ http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Team/9990728.shtml
23. ^ Records - The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games
24. ^ "Broadcasters to pay for China's success". Ft.com. 2008-08-20. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1862d02a-6ea1-11dd-a80a-0000779fd18c.html. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
25. ^ "Nike a major player in Team China's show". Chinadaily.com.cn. 2008-07-16. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2008-07/16/content_6850999.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 

External links

• General Sports Administration - Team China - official
• 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing - official website
• Chinese Olympic Committee - official website
• The Games of the XXIX Olympiad - Sina.com
• Beijing 2008 - China Daily
• Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Chinese Sports Delegation Roster - China Interactive Sports

Awards
Preceded by South Africa national rugby union team	Laureus World Team of the Year 2009	Succeeded by Brawn Formula One Team