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 Sean Eadie (born 15 April 1969) is a retired professional track cyclist. He lives in Como, New South Wales. He started cycling at 10 and became a professional in 1990. Despite competitive aggression on the track, he is a "gentle giant" off the ...

Career

Gong competed in the

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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 Worl ...

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

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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 The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

in Rio de Janeiro. She and

Zhong Tianshi Zhong Tianshi (, born 2 February 1991) is a Chinese track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2012, 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In 2015, she became world champion in the team sprint and won bronze in the sprint ...

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 Team Sprint,

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(with

) ;2015 :GP von Deutschland im Sprint ::1st Team Sprint (with

) ::3rd Sprint ;2016 :1st Jersey unknown

Team Sprint, Asian Track Championships (with

)

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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 silver 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 Summer World University Games medalists in cycling FISU World University Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Olympic gold medalists in cycling 21st-century Chinese sportswomen {{PRChina-cycling-bio-stub