Zhang Yanquan (; born June 13, 1994, in

Chaozhou Chaozhou ( zh, t=潮州), alternatively Chiuchow, Chaochow or Teochew, is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China. It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

) is a Chinese diver of

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China ...

ancestry from Dabu,

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He competed at the

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in the Men's synchronized 10 metre platform, winning the gold medal.

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1994 births Living people Hakka people Hakka sportspeople Chinese male divers Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for China Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic medalists in diving People from Chaozhou Divers from Guangdong Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists in diving Divers at the 2014 Asian Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games divers for China Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Chinese sportsmen {{PRChina-sport-bio-stub

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