Gao Xinglong (born 12 March 1994) is a Chinese male track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. He has a personal best of and is the 2015 Asian champion for the event.
Born in Heilongjiang,[1] Gao began to establish himself at elite level with a jump of indoors in Nanjing in March 2013.[2] Outdoors, he won at the inaugural Friendship Meeting international between China, Japan and Korea.[3]
He began 2014 as he had the previous year, setting a personal best indoors in Nanjing with a jump of .[4] He improved further outdoors, clearing at a national level meeting in Jinhua – a mark which ranked him in the top 15 globally for the season and Asia's second best man after compatriot Li Jinzhe.[5] In his first major competition he won a bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games, beaten by Li and Korean Kim Deok-hyeon. He ended the season with his first national title win at the Chinese Athletics Championships.[6]
Gao continued to improve into the 2015 season. He had a best mark of at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix, beaten only by Britain's Olympic champion Greg Rutherford.[7] His first continental title followed at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, where he jumped under eight metres but still saw off all competition on home turf in Wuhan.[8]
| 2014 | Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 3rd | 7.86 m | |
| 2015 | Asian Championships | Wuhan, China | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 7.96 m |
| World Championships | Beijing, China | 4th | 8.14 m | ||
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | – | NM | |
| 2019 | Universiade | Naples, Italy | 9th | 7.74 m | |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 17th (q) | 7.86 m |