Successful defending champions are marked in bold.
Meanwhile, Chen Ruolin became the second diver in Chinese history to defend two Olympic titles at a single games, after Guo Jingjing did so in two springboard events in 2008. Springboard diver Wu Minxia became the first Chinese athlete to win a gold medal in a single event at three consecutive Olympic Games. Gymnast Zou Kai, who won two golds and one bronze in London, became the most successful Chinese athlete in history with a total of six Olympic medals. Sun also dominated the nation's Olympic medal standings, winning four medals. China also won its first ever Olympic medal in modern pentathlon.Īmong the nation's medalists were Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen, who emerged as China's first swimmers to win two gold medals in their events Sun and Ye broke a world record and an Olympic record respectively.
So far, all of my posts have been about women’s gymnastics, so I thought it would be nice to change it up a bit and do a post on men’s gymnastics. Eleven Chinese athletes managed to defend their titles from the 2008 Olympics, which China hosted 18 of them won more than one Olympic medal in London. Posts about London Olympics written by kndoty. women competed in Olympic gymnastics for the. performing a perfect dismount from a pommel horse during the 1908 London Olympics. Chinese athletes dominated in badminton and table tennis, where they each won gold medals in all sporting events. after Dawes’ impressive list of first-time achievements, there was another remarkable first to be had at the 2012 London Olympics. How gymnastics became a deeply beloved Olympic. The Chinese delegation proved particularly successful in several sports, winning twelve medals in gymnastics, ten in diving and swimming, eight in badminton, seven in weightlifting and shooting, and six in table tennis. For the fourth time in its Olympic history, China was represented by more female than male athletes.Ĭhina left London with a total of 91 medals – 38 gold, 31 silver, and 22 bronze – finishing second only to the United States in the global medal standings. Heather O’Reilly, a midfielder on the United States women’s soccer team and a two-time gold medalist, will be writing regularly for the 2012 London Olympics blog.
A total of 396 Chinese athletes, 171 men and 225 women, were selected by the Chinese Olympic Committee to compete in 23 sports. Michael Regan/Getty Images Heather O’Reilly after the United States women’s soccer team defeated Japan to win the gold medal at the Olympics in London. This was the nation's ninth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952. The People's Republic of China competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, between 27 July and 12 August 2012.