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Gong Zhichao (simplified Chinese: 龚智超; traditional Chinese: 龔智超; pinyin: Gōng Zhìchāo; born 15 December 1977) is a former badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Achievements
  • 2.1 Olympic Games
  • 2.2 World Championships
  • 2.3 World Cup
  • 2.4 Asian Games
  • 2.5 Asian Championships
  • 2.6 IBF World Grand Prix
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Gong was one of the world's leading women's singles players between her first international *les in 1996 and her retirement in 2002. She won some of the world's biggest tournaments, including the venerable All-England Championship consecutively in 2000 and 2001 over fellow countrywomen Dai Yun and Zhou Mi respectively in the finals. Her other *les included the 1996 Asian Championships, the 2000 Copenhagen Masters; and the Denmark (1996), Swedish (1997), China (1997), *an (1998, 2000), and Malaysia (2000) Opens. At the then biennial IBF (BWF) World Championships Gong was a silver medalist behind fellow countrywoman Ye Zhaoying in 1997, and a bronze medalist in 2001. She played winning singles for Chinese Uber Cup (women's international) teams that reclaimed the world team *le from Indonesia in 1998, and retained the *le in 2000.

Unfortunately for Gong, her biggest triumph in an event for individual players, women's singles at the 2000 Olympic Games, is tainted by controversy. According to his later statement, China's head badminton coach Li Yongbo instructed Gong's semifinal opponent, teammate Ye Zhaoying, to "throw" the match against her, on his *umption that Gong would have the better chance to defeat Denmark's Camilla Martin in the final. Whatever the effect of these "instructions" on Ye, a two time former IBF World Champion, she lost the match to Gong 8-11, 8-11, who in turn defeated reigning IBF World Champion Martin for the gold medal 13–10, 11–3.

Achievements

Olympic Games

Women's singles

World Championships

Women's singles

World Cup

Women's singles

Asian Games

Women's singles

Asian Championships

Women's singles

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.

Women's singles

References

External links

• Gong Zhichao at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
• Gong Zhichao at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)