Guo Jingjing

Guo Jingjing is a retired Chinese diver, born on 15 October 1981 in Baoding, Hebei, and known in China as the Princess of Diving. She took up diving at six at the Baoding Training Base and joined the national team in 1992. After a poor final at her first Olympics in 1996, she won gold in the 3 metre synchronized springboard with Wu Minxia at the 2004 Games and then the individual 3 metre springboard. She won two more golds in Beijing in 2008, where she took the 3 metre springboard with 415.35 points and the synchronized event again, and she won the 3 metre springboard at five consecutive World Championships. Her six Olympic medals tie her with Wu Minxia for the most of any female diver. She was briefly banned by the national team over commercial activities after 2004, and she announced her retirement in 2011.