China at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	CHN
Nocname:	Chinese Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Website:
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	57 (15 men, 42 women)
Sports:	7
Flagbearer:	Zhao Hongbo (figure skating)
Rank:	16
Gold:	0
Silver:	6
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(1972–1976)

The People's Republic of China competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				17 February
				17 February
				18 February
				19 February
				21 February
				21 February
				20 February
	Yuan Ye			21 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Biathlon	0	4	4
Cross-country skiing	2	2	4
Figure skating	2	2	4
Freestyle skiing	1	4	5
Ice hockey	0	20	20
Short track speed skating	4	4	8
Speed skating	6	6	12
Total	15	42	57

Biathlon

See main article: article and Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Sun Ribo	3	25:29.0	39
	Yu Shumei	0	23:44.0	5

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
15 km	Sun Ribo	52:19.2	6	58:19.2	21
	Yu Shumei	54:41.3	2	56:41.3	9

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

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

² One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

See main article: article and Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Qu Donghai	DNF	-
	Wu Jintao	32:57.7	81
15 km pursuit^1 F	Wu Jintao	52:28.1	68
30 km C	Wu Jintao	DNF	-
50 km F	Qu Donghai	2'16:42.3	29

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Guo Dongling	20:58.0	72
	Luan Zhengrong	20:30.0	68
10 km pursuit^2 F	Guo Dongling	36:58.2	65
	Luan Zhengrong	35:47.3	62
15 km C	Guo Dongling	54:50.6	55
	Luan Zhengrong	53:48.4	51

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Pairs

Freestyle skiing

See main article: article and Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Yin Hong	Aerials		90.73	24	did not advance
Guo Dandan			163.95	8 Q		159.74	7
Ji Xiaoou			167.42	6 Q		?	12
Xu Nannan			182.01	1 Q		186.97

Ice hockey

See main article: article and Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Women's tournament

Group stage

The First 4 teams (shaded green) advanced to medal round games.

width=165	Team	width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40
	5	5	0	0	33	7	10
	5	4	1	0	28	12	8
	5	3	2	0	27	10	6
	5	2	3	0	10	15	4
	5	1	4	0	10	21	2
	5	0	5	0	2	45	0

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Bronze-medal game

17 February
	align=right width="250"		4  - 1	4th		style=font-size:90%	Big Hat (7,412)
		First period			Ref: Laurie Taylor-Boulton
			Yang X. 9:27
		Second period
	S. Fisk (R. Nieminen, K. Lehto) 3:07
	J. Ikonen (P. Vaarakallio, K. Rantamäki) 7:08
	S. Lankosaari (K. Riipi, S. Krooks) 10:15
		Third period
	R. Nieminen (M. Lehtimäki) (en) 19:52
		Game stats

Contestants Chen Jing Dang Hong Diao Ying Gong Ming Guo Hong Guo Lili Guo Wei Huo Lina Li Xuan Liu Chunhua Liu Hongmei Lu Yan Ma Jinping Ma Xiaojun Sang Hong Wang Wei Xu Lei Yang Xiuqing Zhang Jing Zhang Lan

Short track speed skating

See main article: article and Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
An Yulong	500 m	43.748	1 Q	43.384	1 Q	43.796	2 QA	43.022
Feng Kai		44.817	2 Q	44.384	3	did not advance
Li Jiajun		43.831	1 Q	42.861	1 Q	DSQ	-	did not advance
Feng Kai	1000 m	1:31.724	3	did not advance
An Yulong		1:32.731	2 Q	1:29.784	3	did not advance
Li Jiajun		1:34.023	2 Q	1:34.510	1 Q	1:32.183	2 QA	1:32.428
Li Jiajun Feng Kai Yuan Ye An Yulong	5000 m relay		7:05.797	2 QA	7:11.559

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Wang Chunlu	500 m	45.655	1 Q	46.091	1 Q	46.655	2 QA	DNF	-
Yang Yang (A)		46.815	1 Q	DSQ	-	did not advance
Yang Yang (S)		46.136	1 Q	46.578	2 Q	45.101	2 QA	46.627
Yang Yang (S)	1000 m	1:35.244	1 Q	1:37.252	2 Q	1:35.721	2 QA	1:43.343
Wang Chunlu		DSQ	-	did not advance
Yang Yang (A)		1:37.062	1 Q	1:31.991 WR	1 Q	1:34.688	1 QA	DSQ	-
Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Wang Chunlu Sun Dandan	3000 m relay		4:22.342	2 QA	4:16.383

Speed skating

See main article: article and Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Dai Dengwen	37.03	33	36.95	32	73.98	31
	Li Yu	36.79	27	36.79	26	73.58	27
	Liu Hongbo	36.77	25	36.95	32	73.72	28
1000 m	Wu Fenglong					DNF	-
	Liu Hongbo					1:15.06	40
	Li Yu					1:14.50	38
	Dai Dengwen					1:14.20	36
1500 m	Feng Qingbo					1:56.45	43
	Wan Chunbo					1:54.64	36

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Jin Hua	1:04.07	37	40.32	25	104.39	36
	Wang Manli	40.01	22	40.06	22	80.07	22
	Yang Chunyuan	39.92	19	40.24	24	80.16	23
	Xue Ruihong	39.49	13	39.53	13	79.02	14
1000 m	Yang Chunyuan					1:22.20	32
	Wang Manli					1:22.13	31
	Xue Ruihong					1:21.84	28
	Li Xuesong					1:21.54	26
1500 m	Li Xuesong					2:08.05	31
	Song Li					2:05.98	28
3000 m	Song Li					4:28.99	26

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/CHN/editions/46 People's Republic of China at the 1998 Winter Olympics