"During training, we go from the dormitories to the training center, we go to eat, we go back to the training center, then we go to sleep," Xie said. "Every day we do the same thing, so we have to boost each other."

In the women's quadruple sculls event, Lyu Yang, Zhang Ling, Cui Xiaotong and Chen Yunxia wrapped up a record-setting first day of rowing finals by finishing in 6 minutes 0.13 second, shaving nearly two seconds off the previous mark set by the Netherlands in 2014.

Meanwhile, weightlifter Shi Zhiyong claimed gold in the men's 73-kilogram weightlifting with 364kg in total.

Representing China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Siobhan Bernadette Haughey, 23, got a silver medal in the women's 200m freestyle event on Wednesday – the SAR's first-ever swimming medal in Olympics history.

"I always was so close to making the podium," she said. "To now finally be able to (win a) medal means so much."