Zhong Tianshi (, born 2 February 1991) is a Chinese

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 ...

. She represented her nation at the 2012, 2014 and

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. In 2015, she became world champion in the team sprint and won bronze in the sprint. At the

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in Rio de Janeiro, she and her partner

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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. On 2 August 2021, she teamed with Bao Shanju and defended her Olympic championship in the women's team sprint at the

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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. While being awarded at the medals ceremony, Zhong and her partner Bao were seen on top of the podium with ''

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pin-badges'' affixed to their team sporting jackets, alluding to

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; however, according to Graham Dunbar and Joe McDonald at

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, 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 medalist

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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".

Major results

;2014 : Asian Track Championships ::1st Maillot unidentified

Team Sprint (with

Lin Junhong Lin Junhong (, born 9 December 1990) is a Chinese track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championshi ...

) ::2nd

Sprint ::3rd bronze medal blank

Keirin :

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::1st

Team Sprint (with

) ::2nd

Sprint ::3rd bronze medal blank

Keirin :1st Sprint, Hong Kong International Track Cup :1st Keirin, South Australian Track Classic :China Track Cup ::1st Keirin ::2nd Keirin ::2nd Sprint :2nd Sprint, Adelaide Cycling Grand Prix :2nd Sprint, Super Drome Cup ;2015 :1st Sprint, Singen :1st Keirin, Oberhausen :1st Keirin, Öschelbronn :1st Sprint, Dudenhofen :Cottbuser SprintCup ::1st Sprint ::2nd 500m Time Trial :GP von Deutschland im Sprint ::1st Sprint ::1st Team Sprint (with

) ::3rd Keirin :China Track Cup ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint ::2nd Keirin ;2016 :Asian Track Championships ::1st Maillot unidentified

Team Sprint (with

) ::1st

500m Time Trial ;2017 :National Track Championships :1st China NC

Sprint ::3rd Team Sprint (with

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 ...

) :2nd Sprint, China Track Cup ;2018 :Asian Track Championships ::2nd Maillot unidentified

500m Time Tri

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhong, Tianshi 1991 births Living people Chinese female cyclists Asian Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2014 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2018 Asian Games Olympic cyclists for China Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Cyclists from Shanghai Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Chinese track cyclists