Jiang Chengji is an international male Chinese butterfly

Butterfly stroke

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, breaststroke

Breaststroke

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 and freestyle

Freestyle swimming

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 swimmer from Shanghai

Shanghai

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. He competed at Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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 in 100 m butterfly but narrowly missing the bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 finishing fourth. Denis Pankratov

Denis Pankratov

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, Scott Miller

Scott Miller (swimmer)

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 and Vladislav Kulikov

Vladislav Kulikov

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 won the gold, silver and bronze medals respectively ahead of Jiang. He also got 4th place in 50m freestyle in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Jiang also participated for China in Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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 in the 50 m freestyle but failed to pass into the later stages.

Jiang finished third at the FINA Swimming World Cup 2004-2005 in the men's freestyle.

On the national stage Jiang also won a record of five gold medals at the Chinese

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Ninth National Games.