How many Chinese athletes are competing in this East Olympic Games?

The Chinese army for the Tokyo Olympics is here!

On the 14th, the Chinese sports delegation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was formally established, with a total of 777 delegation members, including 431 athletes (298 female athletes and 133 male athletes), a figure that is 15 more than the 416 of the last Rio Olympics, setting a new record for the scale and number of Chinese Olympic legionaries competing outside China.

At present, the vaccination rate for members of the Chinese Olympic delegation is 99.61 percent.

From the distribution of items, the Chinese Olympic delegation will take part in 225 small items of 30 major competitions in addition to surfing, baseball and softball and handball, which also creates a new record high in the number of small items of overseas participation. Table tennis, badminton, weightlifting, diving, synchronized swimming, trampoline, archery, canoeing still water, modern pentathlon, mountain biking, golf, three-people basketball, rock climbing and other sports to achieve a full entry.

The average age of the Chinese delegation athletes is 25.4 years old, the youngest is 14-year-old Quan Hongchan of the diving team, and the oldest is 52-year-old Li Zhenqiang of the equestrian team. Li Zhenqiang's son, Li Yaofeng, a leader of China's young equestrian riders, is also reported to be on the list of China's Olympic team. Li Zhenqiang and Li Yaofeng have both been selected as equestrian show jumping athletes for China's Olympic team, and for the first time in Chinese sports history, a father and son will compete in the Olympics together, the Russian satellite news agency RIA Novosti said.

Nearly 70 percent of the Chinese delegation will make their Olympic debut. According to statistics, of the 431 athletes, 138 have a history of Olympic competition, accounting for 32.02 percent of the total number of athletes, 131 of whom have competed in the 2016 Rio Games. The number of Olympic recruits, on the other hand, is 293, accounting for 67.98% of the total number of athletes. In addition, China's Olympic Army*** has 24 Olympic champions in its lineup including Cao Yuan, Zhao Shuai, Shi Zhiyong, Zhu Ting, Zhong Angel, Ma Long and Chen Long, etc., and the Chinese women's volleyball team's Olympic lineup includes seven members of the Olympic champions, including Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Ding Xia and Yuan Xinyue.

Among the newcomers, the Bing's Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, the mixed doubles of the national badminton Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, the women's doubles pair Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, women's singles sister Chen Yufei, men's singles good Shi Yuqi, the diving team of the dream team of Yang Jian, Zhang Jiaqi, Chen Taro Shih, all red Chan, the Chinese women's volleyball team of the young attacker Li Yingying, the Olympic Games of the Chinese gymnastics team of the first Xiao Ruoteng, Zou Jingyuan, Sun Wei, China weightlifting team of the Li Wenwen and so on have all been through a period of time, and the Chinese Olympic Games. Li Wenwen and others have experienced the baptism of the competition, is expected to bring back medals or even gold from Tokyo.

It is worth mentioning that the Chinese delegation is full of Olympic veterans: women's track and field athlete Gong Lijiao, women's taekwondo athlete Wu Jingyu, men's shooting athlete Pang Wei, men's trampoline athlete Dong Dong are the fourth time to embark on the Olympic journey, is the delegation of the Olympic Games in the largest number of athletes, Su Bingtian, Cao Yuan and Ma Long is the Olympic Games. three dynasties".

14 morning, the first to arrive in Japan, China's sailing and windsurfing team in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan's Enoshima Sailing Training Base held a national flag-raising ceremony. The team used the mast of the sailboat to complete the flag-raising in the absence of flag-raising conditions.