The Chinese sports delegation for the Beijing Winter Olympics was established with a total number of 387 people

On January 27, 2022, the Chinese sports delegation participating in the XXIV Winter Olympic Games was officially established. The total number of Chinese sports delegations is 387, including 176 athletes, 164 coaches, team leaders, scientific and medical personnel and other sports team staff, and 47 youth league staff. The Beijing Winter Olympics is the largest participation in the history of Chinese sports delegations.

Among the 176 athletes, 87 were female athletes, accounting for 49.43%, and 89 male athletes, accounting for 50.57%. There are 20 athletes from 9 ethnic minorities, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Manchus, Hui, Kazakhs, Hani, Jing, Koreans and Buyi, accounting for 11.36%. The average age of the athletes is 25.2 years old, the oldest is 37 years old (men's ice hockey Ye Jinguang), and the youngest is 17 years old (men's freestyle ski He Jinbo, women's ski jumping Peng Qingyue). 131 athletes participated in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time, accounting for 74.43%; Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu and other 3 athletes will participate in the Olympic Games for the fourth time, which is the athlete who participated in the Olympic Games the most times in the delegation.

There are 78 coaches, including 51 foreign teachers from 19 countries including the United States, Canada, Russia, France, and Japan.

The Chinese sports delegation completed the task of "participating in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events" of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and won a total of 104 sub-events and 194 seats (including 4 "in-competition" sub-events that need to be reconfirmed by other minor events of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games), accounting for 95.4% of all 109 sub-events. Compared with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, when my athletes participated in 5 major events and 12 sub-events and 53 sub-events, 2 major events such as ice hockey and bobsleigh, 3 sub-events such as Nordic biathlon, and 47 minor events such as speed skating women's 5000 meters, the number of participating small events and athletes has increased significantly.