Guo Zhendong (; born 4 August 1984) is a
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
player from
China
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. , he (along with his partner
Xu Chen
Xu Chen (; born 29 November 1984) is a badminton player from China. In 2010, he (along with his partner Guo Zhendong) was ranked within the top 10 men's badminton doubles in the world. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the mixed doubl ...
) was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world. He competed at the
2008
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and
2012 Olympic Games
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.
Career
A men's doubles specialist, Guo has played on the world circuit since 2005, mainly in partnership with
Xie Zhongbo
Xie Zhongbo (; born 22 May 1983) is a former Chinese badminton player from Hunan and raised in Sichuan. After retired from the international tournament, he works as badminton coach in Sichuan.
Career
A doubles specialist on the world circuit, ...
. They have won the 2004
Polish Open, the 2005
China Masters The Fuzhou China Open, formerly known as China Masters, is an annual badminton tournament held in China. It became part of the BWF Super Series tournaments in 2007. In 2014 the level of the tournament was downgraded to BWF Grand Prix Gold because, ...
and the
2008 India Open titles together, and Guo won the
Austrian International The Austrian International or Austrian Open in badminton is an international open held in Austria
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title in 2007 with
He Hanbin
He Hanbin (; born 10 January 1986) is a retired badminton player from China.
Career
A doubles specialist, He won men's doubles at the Austrian International tourney with Guo Zhendong in 2007. Most of his accomplishments, however, have come i ...
. Guo and Xie were quarterfinalists at the
2007 BWF World Championships
The 2007 BWF World Championships is the 16th tournament of BWF World Championships (World Badminton Championships). It was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 13 to 19 August 2007.
Host city selection
Aarhus and Kuala Lumpur were the candida ...
. At the
2008 Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...
in
Beijing
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they lost a tight round of 16 duel to the eventual gold medalists,
Markis Kido
Markis Kido (11 August 1984 – 14 June 2021) was an Indonesian badminton player and one of the world's leading in men's doubles discipline. He won the discipline's gold medal at the 2006 World Cup, 2007 World Championships, 2008 Olympic Games ...
and
Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984) is an Indonesian badminton player. He is an Olympic Games gold medalist, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time All England champion. With these achievements, Setiawan has ...
of
Indonesia
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. Guo is a member of
China's world champion Thomas Cup (men's international) team.
Achievements
BWF World Championships
''Men's doubles''
World Cup
''Men's doubles''
Asian Championships
''Men's doubles''
World Junior Championships
''Mixed doubles''
BWF Superseries
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in
2007
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, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by
Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
(BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as
Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011,
with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.
''Men's doubles''
:
BWF Superseries Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series c ...
tournament
:
BWF Superseries Premier tournament
:
BWF Superseries
The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007.
Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, ...
tournament
BWF Grand Prix
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BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold BWF may refer to: Sports organisations Badminton
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. It is a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
(BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the
International Badminton Federation
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...
since 1983.
''Men's doubles''
:
BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
:
BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Men's singles''
''Men's doubles''
:
BWF International Challenge
The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
...
tournament
:
IBF/BWF International Series tournament
References
External links
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Living people
1984 births
People from Jingzhou
Badminton players from Hubei
Chinese male badminton players
Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players of China
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Badminton players at the 2006 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
21st-century Chinese people
20th-century Chinese people
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