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Sun Yang has competed for China Sun Yang has won 3 gold medals at the Olympic Games Sun Yang has won 2 silver medals at the Olympic Games Sun Yang has won 1 bronze medal at the Olympic Games

Sun Yang is a swimmer who has competed for China. He qualified for the Chinese swimming team at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympic Games. At London 2012, he became the first-ever Chinese male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, dominating the men's 400 and 1500 metres freestyle. He also tied for the silver with Park Tae-hwan in the men's 200 metres freestyle and added a bronze as an anchor swimmer of the Chinese team in the men's 4x200 metres freestyle relay. With two golds, a silver, and a bronze, Sun was named the most decorated Chinese male swimmer in Olympic history and became the first to strike the 400 and 1500 double since Vladimir Salnikov attained this feat in Moscow 1980.

Sun continued his success in Rio de Janeiro 2016 with another gold-medal triumph in the men's 200 metres freestyle, becoming the first-ever swimmer in history to claim titles in the 200, 400, and 1500 metres freestyle events until Kathleen Ledecky attained the same feat on the women's side. In 2017, NBC Sports described him as "arguably the greatest freestyle swimmer of all time".[1]

In September 2018, Sun was involved in an incident during an out-of-competition anti-doping test at his home. FINA concluded that Sun did not commit an anti-doping rule violation. On 28 February 2020, Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivered its findings, overturning FINA's decision and banning Sun for eight years for tampering with the doping control process. However, CAS also ruled that Sun would not officially lose any of his medals because "doping tests performed on the athlete shortly before and after the aborted doping control in September 2018 were negative" and "in the absence of any evidence that the athlete may have engaged in doping activity since 4 September 2018, including on the occasion of the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea in July 2019, the results achieved by the Athlete in the period before the CAS award being issued should not be disqualified".[2][3][4][5] On 22 June 2021, after the retrial of the case, the CAS upheld the ban but reduced the suspension time to 4 years and three months.[6]

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Rank
2008 Men's 400m freestyle 28th
Men's 1500m freestyle 8th
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay 10th
2012 Men's 200m freestyle Silver
Men's 400m freestyle Gold
Men's 1500m freestyle Gold
Men's 4x200m freestyle relay Bronze
2016 Men's 200m freestyle Gold
Men's 400m freestyle Silver
Men's 1500m freestyle 16th

2008[]

Discipline Round Time
400 metres freestyle Heats 3:50.90
Final Did not advance
1500 metres freestyle Heats 14:48.39
Final 15:05.12
4x200 metres freestyle relay Heats 7:13.57
(1:48.73 split)
Final Did not advance

2012[]

Discipline Round Time
200 metres freestyle Heats 1:46.24
Semifinal 1:45.61
Final 1:44.93 NR
400 metres freestyle Heats 3:45.07
Final 3:40.14 OR, AR
1500 metres freestyle Heats 14:43.25
Final 14:31.02 WR
4x200 metres freestyle relay Heats 7:11.35
(Reserve)
Final 7:06.30
(1:45.55 split)

2016[]

Discipline Round Time
200 metres freestyle Heats 1:45.75
Semifinal 1:44.63
Final 1:44.65
400 metres freestyle Heats 3:44.23
Final 3:41.68
1500 metres freestyle Heats 15:01.97
Final Did not advance

References[]

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