Guo Shuang

Guo Shuang

Personal information
Full name	Guo Shuang
Born	(1986-02-26) February 26, 1986 (age 38) Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)[1]
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprint
Major wins
World keirin champion (2009)
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing  China Olympic Games 2012 London Team sprint 2012 London Keirin 2008 Beijing Sprint 2012 London Sprint World Championships 2009 Pruszków Keirin 2007 Palma de Mallorca Sprint 2007 Palma de Mallorca Keirin 2010 Ballerup Sprint 2013 Minsk Team sprint 2006 Bordeaux Sprint 2006 Bordeaux Keirin 2011 Apeldoorn Team sprint 2012 Melbourne Team sprint Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou Sprint 2010 Guangzhou 500 m time trial Universiade 2011 Shenzhen Sprint

Guo Shuang (郭爽, born February 26, 1986) is a Chinese professional track cyclist. She won two bronze medals at the 2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, in Sprint and Keirin, and two silver medals at the 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, again in Sprint and Keirin.

Guo had an eventful semi-final in the sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics, having won the first heat and conceded the second to her opponent Anna Meares, the third heat saw Guo come down the banking too steeply and her front wheel slipped from beneath her. The heat was re-run and although Guo won by a few millimetres, she was relegated for coming down the tack and pushing Meares onto the côte d'azure on the final lap. This put Meares through to the final ride-off for gold. Guo went on to win the final ride-off for the bronze against Willy Kanis.

Guo competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.^[2] She and Gong Jinjie set a world record of 32.447 seconds in the qualification round of the team sprint event, which they then improved upon with 32.422 in the next round.^[3] They went on to finish first in the final against the German team, but were disqualified for an early relay, and were relegated to the silver medal instead.^[4] Guo and Gong's coach Daniel Morelon maintains that the pair were "robbed" of the gold medal, and described it as an "injustice". He complained that the judges refused to provide a "video footage of the race on slow motion", and only provided a "vague explanation" for the infringement they had allegedly committed.^[5] However, the British cycling champions Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish, who were also disqualified for a similar reason earlier on in the competition, accepted the judges decision and chose not to claim that they were unfairly robbed of a medal.^[6] Pendleton recovered and went on to win a gold medal in the women's keirin event with Guo Shuang coming 2nd.^[7]

• "Guo Shuang: Riding Alone Overseas for Thousands of Miles". All-China Women's Federation. January 29, 2007. Retrieved March 26, 2011.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guo Shuang.

• Guo Shuang at UCI
• Guo Shuang at Cycling Archives (archive)
• Guo Shuang at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived) (in Chinese)
• Guo Shuang at Olympics.com
• Guo Shuang at Olympedia