Gong Jinjie (, born 12 November 1986) is a Chinese professional

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

, a member of the provincial

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Team since 2002 and the Chinese National Team since 2005. Her coaches include Yongqing Wang () and Sean Eadie.

Career

Gong competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She and

Guo Shuang 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 ...

set a

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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. They went on to finish first in the final against the German team, but were disqualified for an alleged "early relay", and were relegated to the silver medal instead. Gong and Guo'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. Gong competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She and Zhong Tianshi set a

of 31.928 seconds in the qualification round of the team sprint event, and won China's first ever Olympics Cycling gold medal in the final by beating the Russian team.

Career highlights

;2014 :1st gold medal blank

Team Sprint, Asian Games (with Zhong Tianshi) ;2015 :GP von Deutschland im Sprint ::1st Team Sprint (with Zhong Tianshi) ::3rd Sprint ;2016 :1st Maillot unidentified

Team Sprint, Asian Track Championships (with Zhong Tianshi)

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* 1986 births Living people Chinese female cyclists Chinese track cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) People from Liaoyuan Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for China Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic medalists in cycling Cyclists from Jilin Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2006 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Universiade medalists in cycling FISU World University Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade {{PRChina-cycling-bio-stub