Zhong Tianshi

Zhong Tianshi
Zhong Tianshi at Rio 2016 Keirin
Personal information
Born (1991-02-02) 2 February 1991
Team information
Discipline Track cycling

Zhong Tianshi (Chinese: 钟天使; pinyin: Zhōng Tiānshí, 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.[1]

Zhong competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There, she and her partner Gong Jinjie 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.[2][3]

Major results

2014
Asian Track Championships
1st Team Sprint (with Lin Junhong)
2nd Sprint
3rd Keirin
Asian Games
1st Team Sprint (with Gong Jinjie)
2nd Sprint
3rd 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 Gong Jinjie)
3rd Keirin
China Track Cup
1st Keirin
1st Sprint
2nd Keirin
2016
Asian Track Championships
1st Team Sprint (with Gong Jinjie)
1st 500m Time Trial
2017
National Track Championships
1st Sprint
3rd Team Sprint (with Guo Shuang)
2nd Sprint, China Track Cup
2018
Asian Track Championships
2nd 500m Time Trial

References

  1. ↑ "Zhong Tianshi". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: China win team sprint gold against Russia". BBC Sport. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "China wins first cycling Olympic gold at Rio Olympics". Xinhua. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
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