Opening date: February 9, 2002

Deadline: February 25, 2002

Venue: Salt Lake City, USA

Athletes: 2,399 (886 females and 65,438 males+0,513).

Number of projects: 15 major projects and 78 minor projects.

The 19 Winter Olympic Games was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA from February 8 to 24, 2002. There are 78 events in this Olympic Games. bobsleigh has become a new event in the Winter Olympics, and the women's bobsleigh event has been added, which is 10 more than the last Nagano Winter Olympics. This is the largest number of events in the history of the Winter Olympics.

Yang Yang, a short track speed skater from China, became the first athlete in China to win the gold medal in the Winter Olympics. China won two gold medals, two silver medals and four bronze medals in this competition, ranking 13 in the medal list.

China sent 72 athletes to participate in the competition. In the women's 500-meter final of short track speed skating, China's Yang Yang defeated Bulgarian Evgeniya radanova and teammate Wang to win the championship, and won China's first gold medal in the Winter Olympics. After that, she won the silver medal in the women's 3000-meter relay with her teammates and the gold medal in the women's 1000-meter competition. Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo also struggled to win a bronze medal in figure skating double skating, which was traditionally monopolized by European and American players.

The following is the medal list of China team in Salt Lake City Winter Olympics:

Salt Lake City Winter Olympics China Team Medal List

Named item score

Yang Yang short track speed skating women's 500 m gold medal

Yang Yang short track speed skating women's 1000 meter gold medal.

Yang Yang/Yang Yang/Wang/Sun Dandan short track speed skating women's 3000m relay silver medal.

Li Jiajun short track speed skating men's1500m silver medal.

Wang short track speed skating women's 500m bronze medal.

Yang Yang short track speed skating women's1000m bronze medal.

Li Jiajun/An Yulong/Ye Li/Feng Kai/Guo Wei bronze medal in the 5000m relay.

Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo figure skating double skating bronze medal