10th place: Malone. Won five gold medals.
Ma Long, a native of Anshan, Liaoning Province, is the player with the most Olympic gold medals and medals for the Chinese table tennis team, but can only rank tenth in the medal table. Ma Long won the men's team championship with teammates at the 2012 London Olympics, and four years later in the Rio Olympics, Ma Long participated in two singles team events and won the championship with a complete victory, and in 2021, Ma Long won the men's singles and men's team championships again with a full victory, which not only made Ma Long the only player to defend the Olympic men's singles gold medal, but also the only men's team three-time champion.
Tied for 10th place: Chen Ruolin. He also won five gold medals.
Chen Ruolin, a native of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, is one of the few divers to win the Olympics. At the age of 15, Chen won two gold medals in the women's 10m platform single and double at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and then defended her title again at the London Olympics four years later. At the Rio Olympics, Chen Ruolin only participated in the double jump due to cervical spine problems and defended her title, winning the fifth gold medal. After the game, Chen Ruolin announced her retirement at the age of 24 and now serves as the head coach of Quan Hong Zen, the "Popular Fried Chicken".
9th place: Wang Yifu. He won 2 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze, a total of six medals.
Wang Yifu, a native of Liaoyang, Liaoning, is the only "elder of the Six Dynasties" in Chinese sports. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal for China in Olympic history, and it was Wang Yifu who won the bronze medal. But at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Chinese team encountered Waterloo, and Wang Yifu did not win a medal. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Wang Yifu finally won the men's 10m air pistol championship. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Wang Yifu entered the last shot with a large lead but fainted with physical strength, and finally only played 6.5 rings, failed to defend the title by 0.1, and won a silver medal. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Wang Yifu won another silver medal. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Wang Yifu finally won the gold medal in the men's 10m air pistol again with a 0.2 ring advantage.
8th place: Li Xiaoshuang. He won 2 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze, a total of six medals.
Li Xiaoshuang is a native of Xiantao, Hubei. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Li Xiaoshuang led the Chinese team to win the silver medal in the men's team and also won the bronze medal in the ring. In the floor exercise final, Li Chunyang made a serious mistake, and Li Xiaoshuang risked a concussion to complete a backflip for three weeks, stunning the whole field and winning the championship. Four years later, at the Atlanta Olympics, Li Xiaoshuang won the men's team silver again, and the floor exercise also failed to defend the silver medal. However, he achieved a comeback in the individual all-around competition and won the first individual all-around championship of the Chinese team.
Seventh place: Sun Yang. He won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze, a total of six medals.
Sun Yang, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a benchmark figure for Chinese men's swimming. He has competed in three Olympic Games, and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the fledgling Sun Yang only reached the men's 1500m freestyle final and finished eighth. Four years later, at the London Olympics, Sun Yang defeated South Korea's Park Tae-huan in the men's 400-meter freestyle final to win China's first Olympic gold in men's swimming, and then won the men's 1500-meter freestyle by breaking the world record, a record that no one has ever broken. He also shared a silver medal with Park Tae-huan in the men's 200m freestyle and led the Chinese team to the men's 4x200m freestyle relay championship. Sun Yang continued to perform well at the Rio Olympics, winning gold in the men's 200m and silver in the 400m freestyle.
Sixth place: Li Ning. He won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze, a total of six medals.
Li Ning, a native of Liuzhou, Guangxi, shined at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, winning three gold medals in floor exercise, pommel horse and rings, silver in vault and bronze in individual all-around, and helped the Chinese team win silver in the men's team. Three gold medals and six medals won in a single Olympic Games, two records that no one has ever broken. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Chinese men's gymnastics suffered a lack of success, and Li Ning was injured but made a series of mistakes and failed to win a medal.
Fifth place: Wang Meng. He won 4 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze, a total of six medals.
Wang Mei, a native of Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang, created her own "Era of Pu". At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Wang helped the Chinese team win two consecutive short track speed skating women's 500m titles, and she also won silver and bronze in the 1500m. Wang Meng's peak was at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she single-handedly won the women's 500m and 1,000 short track speed skating titles, and led the team to the women's 3,000m relay for the first time in history, making her China's most successful ice and snow athlete.
Fourth place: Guo Jingjing. He won 4 golds and two bronzes, a total of 6 medals.
Guo Jingjing, a native of Baoding, Hebei Province, has participated in four Olympic Games. Guo finished fifth in the women's 10-meter platform at Atlanta 1996 before turning the springboard to win two silver medals in the 3-meter springboard at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Guo Jingjing finally raised her eyebrows and won two gold medals in the women's 3-meter springboard singles and doubles. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Guo Jingjing went on to defend gold medals in both events on her doorstep, and is China's diver with the most world championships.
Third place: Zou Kai. He won 5 golds and 1 bronze for a total of six medals.
Zou Kai, a native of Luzhou, Sichuan, was the first athlete on the mainland to win five Olympic gold medals. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zou Kai first helped the Chinese team win the men's team championship with an absolute advantage, and then won both floor exercise and horizontal bar in his two strengths, equaling his predecessor Li Ning's record of three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Four years later, at the London Olympics, in addition to helping the Chinese team defend the men's team title, Zou Kai also defended the floor exercise title and won a bronze medal in the horizontal bar event.
Second place: Huang Xuechen. Won 5 silvers and 2 bronzes, a total of 7 medals.
Huang Xuechen, a native of Shanghai, teamed up with her teammates to win bronze at the Beijing Olympics against Japan in 2008, the first synchronized swimming medal in Chinese history. In 2012, Huang Xuechen led the Chinese synchronized swimming team to lose to Russia to win the team runner-up, and teamed up with Liu Ou to win the bronze medal in the doubles. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Huang Xuechen once again led the Chinese team to the team runner-up and partnered with Sun Wenyan to win the silver medal in doubles. At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Huang Xuechen won the silver medal in these two events again, losing to the Russian team.
First place: Wu Minxia. Won 5 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze, a total of 7 medals.
Wu Minxia, a native of Shanghai, is arguably the most successful athlete in Chinese Olympic history, as she is not only the first place in the gold medal table of Chinese Olympians, but also the first place in the medal table. From 2004 to 2016, Wu Minxia partnered with different teammates to achieve four consecutive Olympic women's 3-meter springboard double titles, becoming the only Chinese athlete to achieve four consecutive championships in a single event, and she also won the women's 3-meter springboard singles championship at the 2012 London Olympics, the silver medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.