Guo Jingjing
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Diving | |||
Competitor for  China |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 2004 Athens | Synchro Springboard | |
| Gold | 2004 Athens | Springboard | |
| Silver | 2000 Sydney | Synchro Springboard | |
| Silver | 2000 Sydney | Springboard | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2001 Fukuoka | Springboard | |
| Gold | 2001 Fukuoka | Synchro Springboard | |
| Gold | 2003 Barcelona | Springboard | |
| Gold | 2003 Barcelona | Synchro Springboard | |
| Gold | 2005 Montréal | Springboard | |
| Gold | 2005 Montréal | Synchro Springboard | |
| Gold | 2007 Melbourne | Springboard | |
| Gold | 2007 Melbourne | Synchro Springboard | |
- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Guo.
Guo Jingjing (Chinese: 郭晶晶; pinyin: Guō Jīngjīng, born October 15, 1981) is a female diver from the People's Republic of China.
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[edit] Career
Born in Baoding, Hebei province, on October 15, 1981, she started training in competitive diving in 1988. She took up diving when she was six-years-old at the Baoding Training Base. In 1992, she was selected to dive for the Chinese national team. Her current coach is Zhong Shaozhen.
Guo represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics, earning a gold medal in the 3 metre women's synchronized springboard along with Wu Minxia before finally winning her first individual Olympic gold in the 3 metre women's springboard. She is the leading member of the Chinese national women's diving team after Fu Mingxia. Currently her goal is to win medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She also announced on November 23, 2006 that she would retire following the 2008 Olympic Games.[1]
After the Athens Olympics, Guo gained much fame and was signed up by McDonald's. She was later banned by the national team for excessive commercial activities, but was later taken back.[2]
During a press conference after her performance at the 2008 Diving World Cup in Beijing, China, Guo reportedly was making a bracelet while in conference, and referred the Canadian diver Blythe Hartley as a "fat Canadian".[3]
[edit] Personal life
Guo's off-the-board affairs after the Athens Olympics have been the subject of scrutiny in Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong media outlets. She is reputed to be the girlfriend of Chinese diver Tian Liang, although it is a relationship she neither admits nor denies.[4]
Guo made entertainment headlines with a paparazzi shot of her dining with Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, the playboy grandson of the Hong Kong business tycoon Henry Fok. This time, Guo did not deny the relationship, and has been photographed many times with Kenneth Fok in public.[5]
[edit] Major achievements
- 1995 World Cup – 1st Synchronized Platform & 3m Synchronized Springboard
- 1996 Olympic Games – 5th Platform
- 1998 World Championships – 2nd 3m Springboard
- 1999 World Cup – 1st 3m Synchronized Springboard; 3rd 3m Springboard
- 2000 World Cup – 1st 3m Springboard; 2nd 3m Synchronized Springboard
- 2000 Olympic Games – 2nd 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2001 World Championships – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2002 World Cup – 1st 1m & 3m Springboard; 2nd 3m Synchronized Springboard
- 2002 Asian Games – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2003 FINA Diving Grand Prix (Australia/China) – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2003 World Championships – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2004 World Cup – 1st 3m Synchronized Springboard; 2nd 3m Springboard
- 2004 Olympic Games – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2005 World Championships – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
- 2006 Asian Games – 1st 3m Synchronized Springboard
- 2007 World Championships – 1st 3m Springboard & Synchronized Springboard
[edit] References
- ^ Asian Games-bound diver Guo Jingjing to retire after 2008 Olympics (html). People's Daily (2006). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Hanging by a Thread (html). ESPN (2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ 郭晶晶当国内外记者面耍大牌被指素质低 (shtml). China Central Television (2008). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Diving prince Tian Liang's new fling revealed in hot kiss (htm). China Daily (2005). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Diving princess Guo Jingjing enters love’s troubled waters (ece). Times Online (2008). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
