Zhang Yanquan (; born June 13, 1994, in

Chaozhou Chaozhou (), 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, and the Sou ...

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) is a Chinese diver of

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...

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 Sportspeople from Guangdong Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in diving Divers at the 2014 Asian Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 20th-century Chinese people 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-sport-bio-stub

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