15 Facts About Guo Jingjing

Guo Jingjing is a retired Chinese diver, and multi-time Olympic gold medalist and world champion.

Guo Jingjing took up diving when she was six years old at the Baoding Training Base.

Guo Jingjing started training in competitive diving in 1988, and was selected to dive for the Chinese national team in 1992.

Guo Jingjing's coach leading up to the 2008 Olympics was Zhong Shaozhen.

Guo Jingjing was later banned by the national team for excessive commercial activities, but was accepted back to the team when she agreed to focus on diving and give up many promotional activities.

Guo Jingjing was made to surrender nearly 4 million dollars she had earned from her endorsements.

Tian Liang, a fellow Olympic gold medalist offered the same deal as Guo Jingjing, declined to pay back the money to the government, and was excluded from the Olympic games.

Guo Jingjing is the leading member of the Chinese national women's diving team, and is known in China as "The Princess of Diving".

Guo Jingjing announced on November 23,2006, she would retire following the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Guo Jingjing won two more gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Guo Jingjing won the gold medal in the women's 3-meter springboard with a total of 415.35 points.

Guo Jingjing made entertainment headlines in China when the paparazzi published a photograph of her dining with Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, the grandson of Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok.

Guo Jingjing did not deny the relationship, and has been photographed many times with Kenneth Fok in public.

Guo Jingjing had a second baby, a girl, on April 21,2017, and a third baby, another daughter, on January 1,2019.

In September 2008, Guo Jingjing had to undergo surgery to repair a detached retina in both her eyes and her surgery was undertaken by Hong Kong ophthalmologist Dennis Lam.