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Table tennis: Women's singles Gold: Wang Nan Zhang Yining: 2004 Athens: Table tennis: Women's doubles Gold: Luo Wei: 2004 Athens: Taekwondo: Women's 67 kg Gold: Chen Zhong: 2004 Athens: Taekwondo: Women's +67 kg Gold: Li Ting Sun Tiantian: 2004 Athens: Tennis: Women's doubles Gold: China women's national volleyball team
Li Ting and Sun Tiantian won China's first tennis gold medal in women's doubles. Wang Xu won China's first wrestling gold medal in women's freestyle 72 kg. Chinese women's volleyball team come back from 0–2 deficit to defeat Russia women's team 3–2 in the final, winning China's second ball-game gold medal after 20 years.
Zheng Qinwen (Chinese: 郑钦文; pinyin: Zhèng Qīnwén; IPA: [ʈʂə̂ŋ tɕʰínwə̌n]; born 8 October 2002) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She won the gold medal in women's singles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating world No. 1 Iga Swiatek en route to becoming the first Asian tennis player to win an Olympic gold in singles.
Zheng Qinwen wins China's first Olympic tennis singles gold medal by beating Donna Vekic in the women's final. CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled Qinwen August 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Right before Zheng Qinwen delivered the very first serve of a victory that would deliver China's very first Olympic tennis singles gold medal, loud shouts of “Jia You!” in Mandarin rang out ...
China's Zheng Qinwen defeated Croatia's Donna Vekić in the final, 6–2, 6–3 to win the gold medal in women's singles tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It was China's first victory in the women's singles, the country's first gold medal in Olympic tennis since the women's doubles in 2004, the first singles gold medal for an Asian country in ...
This performance tied them with the United States for having the most gold medals among NOCs, with China finishing second in the medal table due to having fewer silvers. [1] [2] Additionally, China became the only country, besides the United States and the former Soviet Union, to win the most gold medals at a Summer Olympics held outside their ...
Reginald Doherty, four-time Olympic medalist Venus Williams, five-time Olympic medalist. Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games until 1924 (excluding 1916 due to World War I), before going on hiatus due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.