Du Jianchao

Du Jianchao is a Chinese ten-pin bowler, born on 29 October 1979, who is also written Du Jian Chao in some international results. He came to the sport in 1997 at eighteen while working as an equipment-maintenance employee at a bowling centre in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and in 1999 he represented Guangxi at the National Bowling Championships, placing third in the men's individual elite event. China Sports Daily has described him as a leading Chinese practitioner of the spinner style. He won bronze in the men's masters at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and silver in the men's singles at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. At the 2019 Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships in Kuwait City he took men's doubles gold with Wang Hongbo and masters gold, and in January 2025 he won the men's singles gold at the IBF World Cup in Hong Kong, China's first title in that event.