# 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 Championships, again in Sprint and Keirin.
Guo had an eventful semi-final in the sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics, having won the first heat and conceded the second to her opponent Anna Meares, the third heat saw Guo come down the banking too steeply and her front wheel slipped from beneath her. The heat was re-run and although Guo won by a few millimetres, she was relegated for coming down the tack and pushing Meares onto the côte d'azure on the final lap. This put Meares through to the final ride-off for gold. Guo went on to win the final ride-off for the bronze against Willy Kanis.
Guo competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She and Gong Jinjie set a world record 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 early relay, and were relegated to the silver medal instead. Guo and Gong'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. However, the British cycling champions Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish, who were also disqualified for a similar reason earlier on in the competition, accepted the judges decision and chose not to claim that they were unfairly robbed of a medal. Pendleton recovered and went on to win a gold medal in the women's keirin event with Guo Shuang coming 2nd.

## Palmarès
### 2004

    2004 World Cup
       1st Keirin, Moscow
       1st Keirin, Sydney

### 2005

    2004–2005 World Cup
       2nd Sprint, Sydney
       2nd Keirin, Sydney
    2005–2006 World Cup
       3rd Sprint, Manchester

### 2006

    World Championships, Bordeaux
       3rd Sprint
       3rd Keirin
    2005–2006 World Cup
       3rd Sprint, Los Angeles
       2nd 500 m, Los Angeles
       2nd Keirin, Los Angeles
    2006–2007 World Cup
       1st Keirin, Sydney
    Asian Games
       1st 500 m
       1st Sprint

### 2007

    World Championships, Palma de Mallorca
       2nd Sprint
       2nd Keirin
    2006–2007 World Cup
       3rd 500 m, Los Angeles
       1st Keirin, Los Angeles
       2nd Sprint, Manchester
       3rd Keirin, Manchester
    2007–2008 World Cup
       3rd Team Sprint, Beijing

### 2008

    1st Sprint, Fenioux France Trophy
    2007–2008 World Cup
       3rd Sprint, Copenhagen
    3rd Sprint, 2008 Summer Olympics

### 2009

    World Championships, Pruszków
       1st Keirin
    2008–2009 World Cup
       2nd Keirin, Round 4, Beijing
       3rd Keirin, Round 5, Beijing
       3rd Team sprint, Round 5, Beijing
    2009–2010 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
       2nd Keirin, Round 1, Manchester
       2nd Sprint, Round 1, Manchester
       2nd Keirin, Round 2, Melbourne
       2nd Sprint, Round 2, Melbourne

### 2012

    Olympic Games, London
       2nd Team sprint (with Gong Jinjie)
       3rd Individual Sprint
       2nd Keirin

### 2014

    Grand Prix de Vitesse de Saint-Denis
       1st Keirin
       1st Sprint
    GP von Deutschland im Sprint
       2nd Keirin
       2nd Sprint
    Incheon International Track Competition
       2nd Keirin
       2nd Sprint
    Cottbuser SprintCup
       3rd Keirin
       3rd Sprint

### 2015

    China Track Cup
       1st Sprint
       2nd Keirin
       3rd Keirin
    Melbourne Cup on Wheels
       2nd Keirin
       2nd Sprint
    2nd Keirin, Super Drome Cup
    South Australian Grand Prix
       3rd Keirin
       3rd Sprint

### 2017

    National Track Championships
       1st Keirin
       3rd Team Sprint (with Zhong Tianshi)