2021 is coming to an end, this year is also a big year for Chinese sports, the Chinese Olympic delegation won 38 gold medals, 32 silver medals and 18 bronze medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games. On December 28, the Sports Department of Xinhua News Agency also selected the top ten athletes in China in 2021.
The first in the ranking is Yang Qian, who won the first gold medal for the Chinese Olympic team, Yang Qian is only 21 years old this year, and she played well at the Tokyo Olympic Games, not only winning the gold medal in the women's 10-meter air rifle, but also joining forces with Yang Haoran to win the gold medal in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team at the Tokyo Olympic Games. He became the first athlete to win two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and also became the first post-00s Double Gold Medalist in the history of the Chinese Olympic team.
In second place is Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian, who did not win the medal at the Tokyo Olympics, but he set a new Asian record with a time of 9.83 seconds, and became the first Chinese in the history of the Olympic Games to reach the 100-meter final, and also helped the Chinese men's 4*100 relay team to win the fourth place. Some Japanese netizens believe that Su Bingtian's performance is equivalent to 8 Olympic gold medals, and at the same time, no one in Japan will be able to run out of Su Bingtian's results in 100 years. Can feel Su Bingtian running into the Olympic final, even Japanese netizens also think that Su Bingtian is the light of Asia.
In third place is Shi Tingmao, Who won two gold medals in the three-meter board single and double at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which is also a good result of Shi Tingmao winning double gold in two consecutive Olympic Games, so Shi Tingmao also created a myth, she has won the world championship since she participated in the World Series in 2011, whether it is the Swimming World Championships, diving World Cup or the Olympic Games.
Ranked fourth is the table tennis player Ma Long, immediately won the men's team, men's singles two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games, to know that the 2016 Rio Olympic Games also won the men's singles and men's team championships, so Ma Long also became the first athlete in the history of Olympic table tennis to defend the men's singles championship, and Ma Long also became the player with the most world championship titles in the world table tennis world, and Ma Long won a total of 26 championships in his career.
In fifth place is Gong Lijiao, who won the women's shot put championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the first gold medal in the history of the Chinese Olympic team in athletics, and Gong Lijiao achieved four consecutive championships at the National Games.
Ranked sixth is the 18-year-old little girl Gu Ailing, in 2019, the 15-year-old talented ski girl Gu Ailing decided to convert to Chinese nationality, after the conversion of Chinese nationality, Gu Ailing began to play the gold medal harvester, won a number of world championships. At present, Gu Ailing is preparing for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, and Gu Ailing also hopes to win multiple gold medals for the Chinese delegation at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Ranked seventh is China's weightlifter Lu Xiaojun, who has participated in the Olympic Games three times and won Olympic gold medals twice, and the 37-year-old Lu Xiaojun has also become the world's oldest Olympic champion. In ninth place is The Butterfly Queen Zhang Yufei, who broke the Olympic championship in the 200-meter butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics to win the gold medal, and then Zhang Yufei helped the Chinese women to win the gold medal in the 4*200m freestyle relay with a world record-breaking result.
In ninth place is Wang Shun, who won the gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Won 6 golds in the national games after the Olympic Games, and the total number of gold medals in previous National Games reached a staggering 15. In tenth place is badminton player Chen Yufei, who defeated world number one Dai Ziying at the Tokyo Olympics to help the Chinese badminton team win the fifth women's singles gold medal in Olympic history.
However, to the surprise of fans, the popular diving teenager Quan Hongchan was not selected as one of the top ten athletes in China in 2021, but Quan Hongchan is still young, and I believe that in the future, she definitely hopes to enter the list of the top ten athletes of the year.