Gu Jun


Gu Jun is a Chinese former badminton player.

Career

Gu and her regular partner Ge Fei were the world's dominant women's doubles team from the mid-1990s to their retirement after the 2000 Olympics. They won over thirty top tier international tournaments together, including two Olympic competitions and two IBF World Championships. They helped China to regain the Uber Cup from Indonesia in 1998, and to retain the Cup in 2000. Gu Jun was elected to the World Badminton Hall of Fame in 2008.

Summer Olympics

Gu competed in the [Badminton at the Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles|1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996 Olympics] in the women's doubles with Ge Fei. They won the gold medal by beating Gil Young-ah and Jang Hye-ock of South Korea 15–5, 15–5 in the final match.
Gu and Ge successfully defended their women's doubles title in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. They won by the same score as 1996, this time against their compatriots Huang Nanyan and Yang Wei.

Achievements

Olympic Games

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1996GSU Sports Arena, Atlanta, United States

World Championships

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1997Scotstoun Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

World Cup

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1996Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia

Asian Games

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1994Tsuru Memorial Gymnasium, Hiroshima, Japan

Asian Championships

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1994Shanghai Gymnasium, Shanghai, China

Asian Cup

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1995Xinxing Gymnasium, Qingdao, China

World Junior Championships

The Bimantara World Junior Championships was an international invitation badminton tournament for junior players. It was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1987 to 1991.
Girls' doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1991Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia

IBF World Grand Prix (34 titles, 5 runners-up)

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.
Women's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
1993Thailand Open

IBF International (1 title, 1 runners-up)

Women's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
1993Wimbledon Internationalsilver2

Performance timeline

National team

  • ''Senior level''

Individual competitions

Junior level

Girls' doubles
Events19911992
World Jr Invitational ChampionshipsGNH
World Junior ChampionshipsNHG
Mixed doubles
Events1992
World Junior ChampionshipsB

Senior level

Women's singlesWomen's doubles
  • ''Mixed doubles''