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| Born | (1991-02-02)2 February 1991 (age 34) Shanghai, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zhong Tianshi (Chinese:钟天使;pinyin:Zhōng Tiānshǐ, born 2 February 1991) is a Chinesetrack cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2012, 2014 and2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In 2015, she became world champion in the team sprint and won bronze in the sprint.[1]
At the2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she and her partnerGong Jinjie established a world record of 31.928 seconds in the qualification round of the team sprint event, before sprinting their way towards a gold-medal triumph for the Chinese track cycling team in the final match against Russia.[2][3]
On 2 August 2021, she teamed withBao Shanju and defended her Olympic championship in thewomen's team sprint at the2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, thus becoming the first Chinese cyclist to win two Olympic gold medals. During the first round, she and Bao set the new world record of 31.804 seconds.[4] While being awarded at the medals ceremony, Zhong and her partner Bao were seen on top of the podium withMao Zedong pin-badges affixed to their teamsporting jackets, alluding tosymbolicpatriotism; however, according to Graham Dunbar and Joe McDonald atAssociated Press, this symbolism may have been in breach of Olympic Charter Rule 50 (which prohibits political statements on the podium), and that this "incident came one day after silver medalist Raven Saunders (standing below gold medalistGong Lijiao of China) crossed the wrists of her raised arms on the podium", to which Dunbar and McDonald further suggested that it may have been "a response to the (Gong/Saunders)women's shot-put medal ceremony".[5][6]
Team Sprint (withLin Junhong)
Sprint
Keirin
Team Sprint (withGong Jinjie) Sprint Keirin Team Sprint (withGong Jinjie) 500m Time Trial
Sprint 500m Time Trial[2]
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 UCI Track Cycling World Champions –Women's team sprint | |
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