Pan Zhanle and stalwart Zhang Yufei spearheaded China to 12 Olympic medals in the Paris pool, shrugging off intense scrutiny over a doping controversy that engulfed the team ahead of the Games.
The team's haul — two gold, three silver and seven bronze — was an improvement on a Tokyo collection of nine.
Once again, China finished behind perennial pacesetters the United States and Australia.
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