China men's national goalball team

China men's national goalball team
	Silver medalists at the IBSA World Games, Seoul, South Korea (May 2015).
Sport	Goalball
League	IBSA
Division	Men
Region	IBSA Asia
Location	China
Colours	Red ;
Championships	Paralympic Games medals: : 1 : 1 : 0 ; World Championship medals: : 0 : 1 : 0
Parent group	China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities

China men's national goalball team is the men's national team of China. Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with vision impairment. It takes part in international competitions.

Paralympic Games

2008 Beijing

As the host nation, the team competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, from 6 to 17 September 2008, in the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium 'bat wing' arena, Beijing, China. There were 12 men's teams and 8 women's teams taking part in this event. The team took gold.

2012 London

The team competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics from 30 August to 7 September 2012, in the Copper Box Arena, London, England. They came sixth.

The following is the China roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[1]

No.	Player	Age
1	Yao Yongquan	25
2	Cai Changgui	29
3	Bao Daolei	24
4	Chen Liangliang	28
6	Shao Shuai	25
7	Du Jinran	26

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Iran	5	4	0	1	32	20	+12	12	Quarterfinals
China	5	3	1	1	20	14	+6	10
Belgium	5	3	1	1	19	16	+3	10
Algeria	5	2	0	3	18	17	+1	6
South Korea	5	1	0	4	18	28	−10	3	Eliminated
Canada	5	1	0	4	16	28	−12	3	Eliminated

Source:

30 August 2012 13:45	China	5 – 9	Iran	Copper Box, London Referees: Launel Scott (CAN), Bülent Kimyon (TUR)
	Yao 3 Chen 2	Report	Sayahi 9

31 August 2012 18:30	China	11 – 4	South Korea	Copper Box, London Referees: Morten Hammershoi (DEN), Christl Daentler (GER)
	Yao 6 Chen 5	Report	C-H Kim 2 N-O Kim 1 Hong 1

1 September 2012 19:45	Algeria	0 – 1	China	Copper Box, London Referees: Dina Murdie (GBR), Ali Aldarsony (KSA)
		Report	Yao 1

2 September 2012 15:00	Belgium	0 – 0	China	Copper Box, London Referees: Hooshang Shariati (IRI), Warrick Jackes (AUS)
		Report

3 September 2012 11:30	China	3 – 1	Canada	Copper Box, London Referees: Ali Aldarsony (KSA), Christl Daentler (GER)
	Chen 2 Yao 1	Report	Gaulin 1

Quarter-finals

5 September 2012 18:00	China	4 – 12	Lithuania	Copper Box, London Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Carla Da Matta (BRA)
	Chen 2 Yongquan 2	Report	Zibolis 6 Juchna 4 Leonavičius 1 Pavliukianec 1

2016 Rio de Janeiro

The team competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics, with competition from Thursday, 8 September, to finals on Friday, 16 September 2016, in the temporary Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They came seventh.

The following is the China roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[2]

No.	Player	Class	Date of birth (age)
1	Shao Shuai	B1	(1987-01-07)7 January 1987 (aged 29)
2	Cai Changgui	B1	(1983-04-15)15 April 1983 (aged 33)
3	Yang Mingyuan	B2	(1998-01-13)13 January 1998 (aged 18)
4	Chen Liangliang	B1	(1984-09-28)28 September 1984 (aged 31)
5	Hu Mingyao	B2	(1995-01-14)14 January 1995 (aged 21)
6	Yu Qinquan	B1	(1996-04-19)19 April 1996 (aged 20)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lithuania	4	4	0	35	22	+13	12	Quarter-finals
2	United States	4	2	2	21	18	+3	6
3	Turkey	4	2	2	20	23	−3	6
4	China	4	1	3	25	28	−3	3
5	Finland	4	1	3	24	34	−10	3

Source: Paralympic.org

9 September 2016 09:00	United States	5–2	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Rudi Janssen (BEL), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Hamilton 3 Kusku 2	Report	Cai 2

11 September 2016 13:15	China	10–3	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Chen 4 Cai 4 Hu 1 Shao 1	Report	Karakaya 2 Gündoğdu 1

12 September 2016 14:15	Lithuania	3–1	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Patricia Fras (SLO), Joelle Boulet (CAN)
	Pavliukianec 2 Pazarauskas 1	Report	Chen 1

13 September 2016 18:15	China	7–11	Finland	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Joelle Boulet (CAN), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Yang 4 Chen 1 Hu 1 Cai 1	Report	Mattila 6 Miinala 5

Quarter-finals

14 September 2016 09:00	Brazil	10–3	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Moreno 8 Sousa 2	Report	Shao 2 Yang 1

2020 Tokyo

The team competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with competition from Wednesday, 25 August, to finals on Friday, 3 September 2021, in the Makuhari Messe arena, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan. The team was selected for Tokyo 2020 following the 2019 IBSA Asia Regional Championships.[3]

The following is the China roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[4]

No.	Player	Class	Date of birth (age)
1	Lai Liangyu	B1	(2000-10-09)9 October 2000 (aged 20)
2	Cai Changgui	B1	(1983-04-15)15 April 1983 (aged 38)
3	Yang Mingyuan	B2	(1998-01-13)13 January 1998 (aged 23)
4	Chen Liangliang	B1	(1984-09-28)28 September 1984 (aged 36)
5	Hu Mingyao	B2	(1995-01-14)14 January 1995 (aged 26)
6	Yu Qinquan	B1	(1996-04-19)19 April 1996 (aged 25)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	4	2	2	18	13	+5	6	Quarter-finals
2	Ukraine	4	2	2	18	15	+3	6
3	Turkey	4	2	2	15	15	0	6
4	China	4	2	2	21	22	−1	6
5	Germany	4	2	2	16	23	−7	6

Source: TOCOG

Round-robin

26 August 2021 09:00	Belgium	10−3	China	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Woradet Kultawongwattana (Thailand), Bas Spaans (Netherlands)
	Mapreni 8 T. Vanhove 1 Amnir 1	Report	Yang Mingyuan 1 Hu Mingyao 1 Lai Liangyu 1

27 August 2021 17:30	China	7–3	Ukraine	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Romualdas Vaitiekus (Lithuania), Warrick Jackes (Australia)
	Chen Liangliang 3 Cai Changgui 2 Yang Mingyuan 2	Report	Zhyhalin 2 Oliinyk 1

28 August 2021 10:30	Turkey	6–3	China	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Svitlana Moroz (Ukraine), Yoshinori Nii (Japan)
	Kara 3 Karakaya 3	Report	Yang Mingyuan 2 Cai Changgui 1

30 August 2021 17:30	China	8–3	Germany	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Reza Dehghan (Iran), Romualdas Vaitiekus (Lithuania)
	Yang Mingyuan 7 Hu Mingyao 1	Report	Dennis 2 Tiede 1

World Championships

2006 Spartanburg

The team competed in the 2006 World Championships, in July 2006, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States of America.

2010 Sheffield

The team competed in the 2010 World Championships, from 20 to 25 June 2010, in Sheffield, England, in Pool A.[3]

2014 Espoo

The team competed in the 2014 World Championships from 30 June to 5 July 2014, in Espoo, Finland. In Pool B, they made the quarter-finals, but were defeated by Finland 2:5.[3]

2018 Malmö

The team competed in the 2018 World Championships from 3 to 8 June 2018, in Baltiska Hallen, Malmö, Sweden. They placed third in Pool A, but lost to Germany 0:8 in the quarter-finals, to place seventh in the final standings.[3]

2022 Matosinhos

The team competed in the 2022 World Championships from 7 to 16 December 2022, at the Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Portugal. There were sixteen men's and sixteen women's teams. They placed first in Pool D, winning all seven games, and second overall to Brazil in the final standings.[5]

China, together with Brazil, secured berths for the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Paris, France.[6]

IBSA World Games

2015 Seoul

The team competed in the 2015 IBSA World Games from 10 to 17 May 2015, in Seoul, South Korea. They were beaten by Lithuania, 3:10 in the gold medal match, to take silver.[3]

Regional championships

The team competed in IBSA Asia goalball region, and from January 2010 became part of the IBSA Asia-Pacific goalball competition region.

2013 Beijing

The team competed in the 2013 IBSA Asia Pacific Goalball Regional Championships, from 11 to 16 November 2013, in Beijing, China. Of the six men's teams (Australia, China, Iran, Japan, Mongolia, Thailand), China beat Australia 10:1, to take the bronze medal.[3]

2015 Hangzhou

The team competed in the 2015 IBSA Asia Pacific Goalball Regional Championships, from 8 to 12 November 2015, in the China National Goalball Training Centre, Hangzhou, China. Of the five men's teams (Australia, China, Iran, Japan, Korea), the team took the gold medal.[3]

2017 Bangkok

The team competed in the 2017 IBSA Asia/Pacific Goalball Regional Championships, from Monday 21 to Saturday 26 August 2017, in the Thai-Japan Sports Stadium, Din Daeng, Bangkok, Thailand. Competing in Pool A, they came third, going onto mercy South Korea 11:1 in the quarter-finals, beating Australia 7:3 in the semi-finals, and finally beating Iran 10:2, to take the gold medal.[3]

China men and women's goalball teams with medals (Dec 2019).

2019 Chiba

The team competed in the 2019 IBSA Goalball Asia-Pacific Regional Championships, from Thursday 5 to Tuesday 10 December 2019, in the Chiba Port Arena, Chiba, Japan. They placed first in Pool A in the round-robin, and took the gold medal.[3]

References

"Men's Goalball – Team Rosters – China". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
"Men's Goalball – Team Rosters – China". Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
"About goalball – Historical results". Goalball Sport. International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
"Goalball – Team China". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
"Schedule and Results - GMT+0". IBSA Goalball World Championships 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
https://ibsasport.org/goalball-four-tickets-granted-to-paris-2024/

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[1] "Men's Goalball – Team Rosters – China". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 19 October 2012.

[2] "Men's Goalball – Team Rosters – China". Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 19 September 2016.

[IBSAresults-3] "About goalball – Historical results". Goalball Sport. International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Retrieved 4 May 2021.

[4] "Goalball – Team China". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.

[5] "Schedule and Results - GMT+0". IBSA Goalball World Championships 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.

[6] ttps://ibsasport.org/goalball-four-tickets-granted-to-paris-2024/