Top 10 Sports in China

Top 10 Popular Sports in China

Here is the list of top 10 popular sports in china. Soccer is very popular sport in this country. The Chinese Football Association is currently conducting Chinese Super league. The National team was associated by CFA.

#10 Rugby:

Rugby in China is more popular and most watchable sport recently, and the government developed it. The People’s Republic of China in international rugby union represents The China national rugby union team.  Still China has yet to make their debut at Rugby World Cup. And Rugby team is currently 66th ranking in the world.  China played their first international match against 1997 in Singapore. China will be playing in the 2019 rugby tournament with 20 nations.

#9 Baseball:

Baseball is one of the most expected Club events all over the Country.  That was associated by The Chinese Baseball Association, And it was founded in 1974.  China participates World Baseball Classic in 2006 and finished 15th in the tournament and also competed in the 2009 World Baseball Class. Baseball in china having no significant records, but it is popular only because of club level matches and have a huge fan circles.

#8 Swimming:

Swimming one of the famous sport among all sports persons, they show their best performance in different formats of Olympic Games like summer, winter. Sun Yang became the men’s 1500m freestyle world record holder and became a first Chinese male swimmer to win gold medals in Olympics.  He also won two golds in men’s 400m and men’s 1500m freestyle. In the 2012 Olympics, China won 5 Gold medals, 2 silver medals and 3 bronze medals in Swimming.

#7 Gymnastics:

After 1952 China entered into the Olympics and shows dramatic changes in this sports event. In Summer Olympics, China took overall 29 gold medals.  Li  Ning won 6 medals in gymnastics, including 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal. Li Ning’s  Six medals in a single Olympics is still the record for any Chinese athlete. China is well performed in gymnastics at the Olympics.

#6 Diving:

Another one of the most popular sport from the China is Diving, that was recently in peak.  The Chinese player shows their performance in recent Olympics, also won the many gold medals in this event. Winning six of eight gold medals at 2012 Summar Olympics in London. It was considered as Diving is China’s dominance in the sport. And China also has won 59 Olympics medals in Diving that includes 33 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 9 bronze medals placed in second after the USA.

#5 Chess:

Chess is one of the popular sport in worldwide and also in China. With a Government support is is slowly developing into a major sport in China. In the 37th Chess Olympiad conducted in Italy, China became the best performance, Men’s team won the second position and the women’s won third.  Currently, China has a five of the world’s top hundred players, as well as Women’s World Chess Champion.  About three million people in China who play chess.

#4 Soccer:

The football game is very popular sport in this country. The Chinese Football Association is currently conducting Chinese Super league. The National team was associated by CFA, It was founded in 1924 after the Republic of China and CFA joined to FIFA in 1931. In 1984 and 2004 China became two times runners up at the Asian Cup. Currently the ranking of the national soccer team, and the FIFA ranking is 86th in worldwide. In FIFA World Cups to have significant impact to the Chinese national team.

#3 Basketball:

Basketball is another one of the most popular sports in China, started by the Chinese Basketball Association. China is the oldest country that started playing basketball After USA and Canada. Basketball started in the 1890s and became popular only in 1990s. James Hodges became the first Americans to play in the CBA in the year of 1996. The Chinese Basketball Association, Provide Important league for men’s  basketball in China, was formed in 1995.  The sport is more popular after Yao Ming joined the National Basketball Association as a player for the Huston Rockets in 2002.

#2 Badminton:

It is another one of most popular sports in China, that was very critical to find which one is the most popular sport either Table Tennis or Badminton depends on the fan’s votes. China has most dominated in this sports event in the earlier stage of Badminton enters into the Olympics. And also won 53 gold and got first place. Badminton is approved officially after the Republic of China. In China  badminton history, won the Uber Cup 13 times, and Thomas cup 9 times other than any country.

#1 Table Tennis:

It is also named as Ping Pong. Since 1959 60% of Chinese players have won the men’s World Championship. China won all possible gold medals At the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. The table tennis community in China to produce many world class players and this skill allows for country to continuously winning recent world championship.  Achievements of table tennis in China have 47 medals in total at the Olympics and 36 World Championship titles.