Fan Zhendong celebrates a point at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Friday. Photo: Cui Meng/Global Times

Chinese Olympians won two golds, two silvers and one bronze in the Tokyo Games on Friday, and Team China continued their lead on the gold medal tally with 36 golds, 26 silvers and 17 bronzes with two days left in the Games. 

The Chinese paddlers defeated Germany 3-0 in the table tennis men's team final, continuing their dominance in the sport. 

Xu Xin and Ma Long got past Patrick Franziska and Timo Boll 11-7, 11-3, 11-9 in the first match. In the second, Fan Zhendong had to overcome a great challenge from Dimitrij Ovtcharov in five games before eventually winning 3-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-3.

Ma sealed the gold after defeating the 40-year-old Boll 11-5, 11-9, 11-13, 11-7 in the third match.

Ma was leading 10-8 in the third game of his match with Boll, and one more point would have been enough to win the championship, but Boll kept the German hopes alive after clawing back to a 13-11 win. 

"I am no stranger to this kind of situation, and at the moment I kept believing in my teammates and myself," Ma told a post-match interview. 

Ma beat teammate Fan in the men's singles final last week, becoming the only male player to win back-to-back singles golds in table tennis. He was hailed as the "undisputed GOAT [Greatest Of All Time]" by the International Table Tennis Federation after completing the feat.

"I haven't thought about too much on that," Ma replied when asked about his feelings on winning two golds in Tokyo. "I might be happy at the moment, but it's no big deal. It is an important experience, but not everything in my life. I will still keep my feet on the ground." 

Chinese paddlers have won four out of five golds in table tennis at the Olympics, having lost the mixed doubles final to Japan.

In track and field, Liu ­Shiying won China's first-ever gold in javelin throw. She threw a personal best 66.34 meters in her first try and none of her competitors could match the distance. 

Liu Shiying competes in the javelin throw final at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday. Photo: AFP

In wrestling, ­China's Pang Qianyu won a silver in the ­women's freestyle wrestling 53-kilogram division. 

Liu Hong won bronze in the women's 20-­kilometer race walk with a time of one hour, 29 minutes and 37 seconds. The Chinese athlete, 34, was competing in her fourth Olympics. She was the gold medalist in the event five years ago in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. 

In diving, China's Yang Jian and Cao Yuan both advanced to the semifinal after finishing top two in the men's 10-meter platform preliminary round. Both the semifinal and final will be held on Saturday. Chinese divers have claimed six golds in diving completions. The only one they lost was in the men's synchronized 10-meter platform event, which was snatched by Great Britain's Tom Daley and Matty Lee.

With two days left, Team China are just two golds less than the 38 they amassed in the 2012 London Games - the highest gold medal haul they have achieved at an overseas Olympics. China has only topped the Olympic gold medal count once at the Beijing Games in 2008 with 51 golds.