Bao Shanju

Chinese cyclist (born 1997)

Bao Shanju

Personal information

Born

(1997-11-03) 3 November 1997 (age 26)
Luoyang, China

Team information

Discipline

Track

Role

Rider

Medal record

Women's track cycling

Representing China
Olympic Games
	2020 Tokyo	Team sprint
World Championships
	2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	Team sprint
	2023 Glasgow	Team sprint
Asian Games
	2022 Hangzhou	Team sprint

Bao Shanju (Chinese: 鲍珊菊; born 3 November 1997) is a Chinese cyclist.^[1] She competed in the women's team sprint event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[2] In the first round of the event, she and teammate Zhong Tianshi set a new world record with a time of 31.804 seconds.^[3] They both went on to win the gold medal, beating the German team in the event's final.^[4]^[5]

Career

Bao and her teammate Zhong Tianshi broke Team China's own world record previously set at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics by Zhong Tianshi and former team sprint teammate Gong Jinjie, with a new WR time of 31.804 seconds.^[6] While being awarded their gold medals at the podium ceremony, Bao and Zhong were seen with Mao Zedong pin-badges affixed to their team sporting jackets, alluding to symbollic patriotism, however, according to Graham Dunbar and Joe McDonald at Associated Press, this symbolism may be in breach of Olympic Charter Rule 50 (which prohibits political statements on the podium), and that this "incident came one day after silver medalist Raven Saunders (standing below gold medalist Gong Lijiao of China) crossed the wrists of her raised arms on the podium", to which Dunbar and McDonald remarked that it "was unclear" if it was "a response to the (Gong/Saunders) women's shot-put medal ceremony".^[7]^[8]

References

^ "Bao Shanju". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ "Cycling Track - First Round - Heat 3 Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ "Cycling Track – Women's Team Sprint – First Round Results" (PDF). olympics.com. TOCOG. 2 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ "Cycling Track – Women's Team Sprint – Final Classification" (PDF). olympics.com. TOCOG. 2 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ "Cycling-China's Bao and Zhong retain women's team sprint title". Reuters. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ "Cycling Track - Olympic Schedule & Results". Tokyo Olympics Official Website. 2 August 2021. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
^ "Mao pins worn by Chinese athletes may test Olympic rules". www.msn.com.
^ Dunbar, McDonald, Graham, Joe. "Mao pins worn by Chinese athletes may test Olympic rules". MSN Sports. Associated Press. Retrieved 3 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)