GAO Xinglong

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Long Jump
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (NM)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Long Jump
2015	Beijing, CHN	4th (8.14)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Long Jump
2018	1 x 6th
2017	1 x 2nd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2017	Long Jump	Shanghai, CHN	8.22
6	2018	Long Jump	Shanghai, CHN	8.00

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2019	Long Jump	World Challenge	Nanjing, CHN	8.10
5	2019	Long Jump	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	7.97

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, CHN

Mandarin

Heilongjiang Province [People's Republic of China]

Randy Huntington [national], USA

2014 for People's Republic of China, Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea (jms.gov.cn, 27 Aug 2015)

He injured his ankle during the 2016 Diamond League event in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. He went on to win the long jump competition at the event. (sport.gov.cn, 20 May 2016)

He took up the sport in 2011 in Jiamusi, People's Republic of China. (jms.gov.cn, 27 Aug 2015)

His parents sent him to a sports school to improve his behaviour. "At that time, I was naughty at home and would not go to class, my parents could not cope with me. Ordinarily the time I spent at school was practising long jump, so my parents took me to a sports school. They allowed me to stay at the sports school for two years. They didn't expect me to go down the route that I have." (sports.ifeng.com, 28 Aug 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (new.qq.com, 29 Mar 2021)

In 2017 he received the Outstanding Youth of Heilongjiang Province award at the Heilongjiang Provincial Delegation Award Ceremony in Harbin, People's Republic of China. (cpc.people.com.cn, 19 Sep 2017)

In 2016 he was named an Elite Athlete of International Class by the General Administration of Sport of China. (sport.gov.cn, 01 Feb 2016)

In 2013 he received a First Class Athlete award from the sport administration of Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China. (govinfo.nlc.gov.cn, 02 Apr 2013)