GAO Lei

People's Republic of China

Trampoline Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 3 Jan 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Place of birth: SHANGHAI

Birth Country:

People's Republic of China

Place of residence : SHANGHAI

Residence Country:

People's Republic of China

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Trampoline Gymnastics	Men

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Men's Qualification	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Men
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3

World Championships

Year	Location	Men	Team	Synchro	All Around Team X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	1	2	-	3
2018	St. Petersburg, RUS	1	-	-	1
2017	Sofia, BUL	1	1	-	-
2015	Odense, DEN	1	2	-	-
2014	Daytona Beach, FL, USA	22	-	-	-
2013	Sofia, BUL	9	1	7	-
2011	Birmingham, GBR	-	-	9	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	Men
2018	Indonesia	2

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017/2018

Year	Men
2019/2020	2 x 1st
2017/2018	2 x 1st

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017/2018

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Baku, AZE	61.585
1	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Khabarovsk, RUS	61.895
1	2017/2018	Individual Trampoline	Maebashi, JPN	61.365
1	2017/2018	Individual Trampoline	Loule, POR	63.295
2	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Valladolid, ESP	61.380
2	2017/2018	Individual Trampoline	Loule, POR	61.715
7	2017/2018	Individual Trampoline	Brescia, ITA	30.845
13	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Baku, AZE	110.750
70	2019/2020	Individual Trampoline	Minsk, BLR	77.285

Legend
DNS - Did Not Start, Men - Men's Individual, Women - Women's Individual, X - Mixed

Listening to music, watching films and television series, playing football and volleyball. (Weibo profile, 24 May 2021; sports.sina.com.cn, 15 Jun 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Shanghai University of Sport, People's Republic of China

Languages spoken:

Shanghai [People's Republic of China]

Sporting relatives:

His father Gao Weifeng has served as a trampolining coach for the Shanghai team in the People's Republic of China. (sohu.com, 22 Oct 2019)

He sustained a waist injury in 2012. (2016.sohu.com, 14 Aug 2016)

He had a lower back injury in 2011 and was unable to compete for almost a year. (sports.sina.com.cn, 30 Nov 2015)

National team:

2011 (sh.sina.com.cn, 15 Aug 2016)

He switched from artistic gymnastics to trampolining in 2012. (sports.sina.com.cn, 30 Aug 2017)

He was introduced to gymnastics by his father. (sports.sina.com.cn, 30 Aug 2017)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sports.xinhuanet.com, 06 Nov 2020; olympic.cn, 20 Jan 2020)

Winning bronze in individual trampoline at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 03 Jun 2021; 2016.ifeng.com, 14 Aug 2016)

Chinese trampoline gymnast Dong Dong. (sports.cn, 26 Mar 2014)

In 2016 he received the Sports Medal of Honour from the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China. (sport.gov.cn, 04 Jan 2017)

In 2014 he was named an Elite Athlete of International Class by the General Administration of Sport of China. (sport.gov.cn, 26 Mar 2014)

Milestones

He became the first male gymnast to win gold in individual trampoline at four consecutive world championships when he claimed victory at the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. He had previously also won gold in 2018, 2017 and 2015. (SportsDeskOnline, 03 Jun 2021; xinhuanet.com, 01 Dec 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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