Guo Zhendong

Guo Zhendong
Personal information
Country  China
Born (1984-08-04) 4 August 1984
Shashi, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Handedness Right
Men's doubles
Highest ranking 3 (8 July 2010)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  China
World Championships
2010 Paris Men's doubles
Thomas Cup
2012 WuhanMen's team
2010 Kuala LumpurMen's team
2008 JakartaMen's team
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou Men's team
2006 Doha Men's team
Asia Championships
2012 QingdaoMen's doubles
2011 ChengduMen's doubles
World Junior Championships
2002 PretoriaMixed doubles
2002 PretoriaMixed team
BWF profile

Guo Zhendong (born 4 August 1984) is a male badminton player from China.[1] As of July 2010, he (along with his partner Xu Chen) was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world.[2]

Career

A men's doubles specialist, Guo has played on the world circuit since 2005, mainly in partnership with Xie Zhongbo. They have won the 2004 Polish Open, the 2005 China Masters and the 2008 India Open titles together, and Guo won the Austrian International title in 2007 with He Hanbin. Guo and Xie were quarterfinalists at the 2007 BWF World Championships. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing they lost a tight round of 16 duel to the eventual gold medalists, Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia. Guo is a member of China's world champion Thomas Cup (men's international) team.

References

  1. ↑ "郭振东" (in Chinese). Tencent. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "《羽毛球》封面：郭振东/徐晨飞奔在共同的梦想之旅" (in Chinese). Sina Sports. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
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