In the newly-concluded 20th Asian Games, the Chinese sports delegation clinched 169 gold medals, 89 silver medals and 83 bronze medals, topping both the gold medal tally and the medal table. 22 athletes from Qingdao, part of the Chinese sports delegation, performed splendidly, and won 18 medals in total, including 11 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 3 bronze medals, a new record high that athletes from Qingdao have chalked up in all Asian games held abroad.

The swimming athlete Zhang Zhanshuo bagged all gold medals in the men’s 200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters and 1,500 meters freestyle, and worked with his teammates to win gold medals in the men’s 4×100 meters freestyle relay, the men’s 4×200 freestyle relay and the men’s 4×100 medley relay. In the just-concluded Asian Games, he carried off 7 gold medals in total, smashed three Asian records, two Asian Games records, tied the 44-year-old record for the most gold medals won by an individual in a single Asian Games, and was known as the first swimming athlete clinching seven gold medals in a single Asian Games. Another swimming athlete Xu Fang won three gold medals in the men’s relay, and secured two silver medals in the men’s 100 meters and 200 meters butterfly stroke. The canoeing athlete Yin Mengdie, an Olympic champion, captured two gold medals in the women’s 500 meters tandem kayak and the four-person kayak. The sailing and windsurfing athlete Li Wenqi grabbed the gold medal in the women’s hydrofoil windsurfing.  (Liu Shuo)

Zhang Zhanshuo takes part in the men’s 800 meters freestyle in the 20th Asian Games.