The 24th Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing on February 4, 2022.

The Sports Department of Chinanews.com launched a series of columns "Hundred Questions about Winter Olympics", aimed at popularizing Winter Olympic knowledge, answering hot questions, sharing interesting stories about ice and snow, and helping everyone have a better watching experience during the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The 25th Winter Olympics 100 Questions | How many Winter Olympic gold medals have the Chinese team won?

　　In the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Yang Yang opened a gold medal account in the history of the Winter Olympics for the Chinese delegation.

In the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing won the "fresh" gold medal for the Chinese team so far.

So, have you ever calculated how many gold medals the Chinese team has won in the history of the Winter Olympics?

　　In the five Winter Olympics from 2002 to 2018, the Chinese team had gold medals in each competition and won a total of 13 gold medals.

　　In the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Yang Yang helped the Chinese sports delegation to achieve the gold medal "zero breakthrough" in the history of the Winter Olympics.

On February 16, 2002, Salt Lake City, USA, the short track speed skating women's 500m final of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Yang Yang won the championship.

To achieve the "zero breakthrough" of the gold medal in the Winter Olympics for the Chinese delegation.

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　　In the women's 500m short track speed skating final, Yang Yang, who was in the inner lane, took the initiative since the start and kept the lead to the finish. In the end, he won the championship with a time of 44.187 seconds and became China's first Winter Olympic gold medalist.

　　In the subsequent women's 1000m short track speed skating competition, Yang Yang continued his good form and won the championship again with a time of 1:36.391.

Data map: Wang Meng.

　　At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, the Chinese team also won two gold medals.

　　In the women’s 500m short track speed skating finals, Wang Meng maintained the lead after the first corner and successfully retained his advantage. He took the lead in crossing the line with a time of 44.345 seconds, winning the first place for the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics. gold.

After crossing the finish line first, Wang Meng in a red racing suit opened his arms and cheered.

　　In the snow event, Chinese player Han Xiaopeng broke the monopoly of European and American athletes and won the freestyle skiing men's aerials gold medal with 250.77 points, realizing the "zero breakthrough" in the gold medals in the Chinese snow events and men's events in the Winter Olympics.

On February 15, 2010, the double free skating competition of figure skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Chinese players Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo fulfilled their dreams.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng (Pictures and texts compiled by Xu Xiyi)


　　At the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Chinese team won 5 gold medals and achieved outstanding results.

　　Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the figure skating double skating championship with a total score of 216.57 points. This is the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese figure skating and the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation in the Winter Olympics.

　　Since then, Wang Meng once again won the gold medal in the women's 500m and 1000m short track speed skating finals. She won the women's 500m short track speed skating champion again.

Chinese athlete Zhou Yang added another gold to the Chinese team in the women's short track speed skating 1500m final.

　　Under the leadership of head coach Li Yan, the Chinese women's short track speed skating team composed of Wang Meng, Zhou Yang, Zhang Hui and Sun Linlin successfully won the women's 3000m relay.

At 8 pm on February 13th, Beijing time, the women’s 500m short track speed skating final at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 ended. Li Jianrou, the Chinese "single seedling", won the championship with a score of 45.263, and won the Winter Olympics for the Chinese delegation. The first gold medal.

The picture shows the medal awarding ceremony held.

　　At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Chinese player Li Jianrou won the Chinese team's first gold in that competition.

In the women's 500m short track speed skating final, she succeeded in winning the championship.

　　Chinese athlete Zhang Hong defeated other athletes in the women's speed skating 1000m final with a time of 1:14.02. This is also the first gold medal in speed skating in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics.

In addition, Zhou Yang successfully defended the women's 1500m short track speed skating champion.

　　At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing made the first crossing in the men's 500m short track speed skating final with a time of 39 seconds and 584. This was also the first Olympic gold that Chinese men's short track speed skating won.

(Liu Xingchen)