China at the 2002 Winter Olympics

The People's Republic of China competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. The team excludes athletes from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, which competed separately as Hong Kong, China. China won its first Winter Olympic gold medal at these Games. It had previously won silver and bronze medals at prior Games.

China at the 2002 Winter Olympics
IOC code	CHN
NOC	Chinese Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.cn (in Chinese and English)
in Salt Lake City
Competitors	66 (21 men, 45 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Zhang Min (figure skating)
Medals Ranked 13th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 4 Total 8
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Other related appearances
Republic of China (1972–1976)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Yang Yang (A)	Short Track Speed Skating	Women's 500m
Gold	Yang Yang (A)	Short Track Speed Skating	Women's 1000m
Silver	Li Jiajun	Short Track Speed Skating	Men's 1500m
Silver	Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Wang Chunlu Sun Dandan	Short Track Speed Skating	Women's 3000m Relay
Bronze	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Figure Skating	Pairs
Bronze	Yang Yang (S)	Short Track Speed Skating	Women's 1000m
Bronze	Wang Chunlu	Short Track Speed Skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Li Jiajun An Yulong Li Ye Feng Kai Guo Wei	Short Track Speed Skating	Men's 5000m Relay

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Zhang Qing	3	27:45.3	56
12.5 km pursuit ^2	Zhang Qing	5	39:11.1	53

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
20 km	Zhang Qing	54:13.9	4	58:13.9	59

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Sun Ribo	3	24:32.4	57
	Kong Yingchao	3	24:30.2	56
	Liu Xianying	1	23:18.9	42
	Yu Shumei	1	22:29.9	20
10 km pursuit ^4	Yu Shumei	6	37:02.6	44

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
15 km	Yu Shumei	48:43.0	5	53:43.0	46
	Kong Yingchao	51:38.0	2	53:38.0	44
	Liu Xianying	50:09.4	0	50:09.4	17
	Sun Ribo	49:04.7	1	50:04.7	15

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Yu Shumei Sun Ribo Liu Xianying Kong Yingchao	0	1'34:45.6	13

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Cross-country skiing

Men

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Han Dawei	3:07.00	52	Did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit^1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Han Dawei	30:15.7	67	Did not advance

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Han Dawei	42:34.5	56
30 km F	Han Dawei	1'25:42.4	65
50 km C	Han Dawei	2'44:50.0	54

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Luan Zhengrong	3:35.21	50	Did not advance
Hou Yuxia	3:28.71	40	Did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	5 km C		5 km F pursuit^2
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Luan Zhengrong	15:40.6	65	Did not advance
Hou Yuxia	14:26.3	46 Q	14:11.1	44

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Luan Zhengrong	32:35.3	50
	Hou Yuxia	31:30.6	44
15 km F	Luan Zhengrong	47:43.7	52
	Hou Yuxia	45:42.2	47
30 km C	Hou Yuxia	1'49:45.8	42
	Luan Zhengrong	1'49:37.7	41

² Starting delay based on 5 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Li Yunfei	30.0	14	23	20
Zhang Min	24.5	19	15	16
Li Chengjiang	12.0	6	9	9

Pairs

Athletes	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	16.5	9	12	11
Pang Qing Tong Jian	14.0	10	9	9
Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	4.5	3	3

Ice Dancing

Athletes	Points	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	Rank
Zhang Weina Cao Xianming	44.0	23	23	23	21	22

Freestyle skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Han Xiaopeng	Aerials	144.91	24	Did not advance
Ou Xiaotao		175.01	19	Did not advance
Qiu Sen		187.42	18	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Guo Xinxin	Aerials	130.31	19	Did not advance
Wang He		136.77	18	Did not advance
Xu Nannan		160.64	12 Q	135.96	12
Li Nina		181.30	4 Q	185.23	5

Ice hockey

Group stage - Group B

Top two teams (shaded) advanced to semifinals.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	3	0	0	28	1	+27	6
Finland	3	2	1	0	7	6	+1	4
Germany	3	0	2	1	6	18	−12	1
China	3	0	2	1	6	21	−15	1

All times are local (UTC-7).

12 February 2002 14:00

Finland

4 – 0 (0–0, 2–0, 2–0)

China

Peaks Ice Arena, Provo Attendance: 4,977

14 February 2002 16:00

China

1 – 12 (0–3, 1–5, 0–4)

United States

Peaks Ice Arena, Provo Attendance: 6,325

16 February 2002 14:00

Germany

5 – 5 (1–1, 1–4, 3–0)

China

Peaks Ice Arena, Provo Attendance: 5,418

Classification round

5th place semifinal

17 February 2002 14:00

Russia

4 – 1 (0–1, 3–0, 1–0)

China

Peaks Ice Arena, Provo Attendance: 5,719

7th place match

19 February 2002 14:00

China  7th

2 – 1 OT (1–0, 0–0, 0–1, 1–0)

Kazakhstan

Peaks Ice Arena, Provo Attendance: 5,490

Contestants Chen Jing Dai Qiuwa Guan Weinan Guo Hong Hu Chunrong Jin Fengling Li Xuan Liu Hongmei Liu Yanhui Lu Yan Ma Xiaojun Sang Hong Shen Tiantian Sun Rui Wang Linuo Wang Ying Xu Lei Yang Xiuqing Zhang Jing

Short track speed skating

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Li Jiajun	500 m	43.690	1 Q	1:04.514	3	Did not advance
Feng Kai		43.084	1 Q	42.820	2 Q	42.266	2 Q	42.112	4
Feng Kai	1000 m	1:32.554	1 Q	1:28.424	3	Did not advance
Li Jiajun		1:30.447	2 Q	1:27.467	2 Q	1:30.592	2 Q	DSQ	–
Li Jiajun	1500 m	2:25.347	2 Q			2:19.877	1 Q	2:18.731
Guo Wei		2:18.846	1 Q			2:25.321	3 QB	2:27.376	7
Li Jiajun Feng Kai Guo Wei Li Ye An Yulong	5000 m relay					6:46.625	2 Q	6:59.633

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Yang Yang (A)	500 m	45.042	1 Q	44.810	1 Q	44.118 OR	1 Q	44.187
Wang Chunlu		44.723	1 Q	44.739	1 Q	44.734	2 Q	44.272
Yang Yang (S)	1000 m	1:40.632	1 Q	1:33.561	1 Q	1:35.072	1 Q	1:37.008
Yang Yang (A)		1:37.039	1 Q	1:31.235 OR	1 Q	1:38.037	2 Q	1:36.391
Yang Yang (S)	1500 m	2:26.943 OR	1 Q			2:32.315	1 Q	DSQ	–
Yang Yang (A)		2:29.578	2 Q			2:21.690	2 Q	2:31.791	4
Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu	3000 m relay					4:15.931	1 Q	4:13.326

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Yu Fengtong	1:22.11	36	35.30	21	117.41	34
	Li Yu	35.62	21	35.35	23	70.97	21
1000 m	Yu Fengtong					1:12.07	40
	Li Yu					1:10.78	35
1500 m	Liu Guangbin					1:52.01	46
	Ma Yongbin					1:51.81	45

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Xing Aihua	1:44.62	31	39.74	28	144.36	30
	Yang Chunyuan	39.56	28	39.07	23	78.63	24
	Jin Hua	39.06	24	39.20	24	78.26	23
	Wang Manli	38.20	11	28.42	14	76.62	13
1000 m	You Yanchun					1:18.74	30
	Wang Manli					1:17.37	26
	Jin Hua					1:17.35	25
	Song Li					1:16.71	22
1500 m	Zhang Xiaolei					2:01.23	28
	Gao Yang					1:59.51	19
	Song Li					1:58.31	15
3000 m	Zhang Xiaolei					4:16.53	23
	Gao Yang					4:12.39	20

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com