Gu Juan

Gu followed her father to Nanjing when she was six years old. Due to poor body constitution, her father sent her to a badminton school to build her up. Gu represented Nanjing and won a competition. She was subsequently invited to join the Beijing badminton team but withdrew after not being used to the weather conditions. Gu then further represented Nanjing in the Jiangsu sports competition and won the girls doubles and mixed doubles. Former Jiangsu badminton coach, representing the Singapore Badminton Association, scouted her and invited her to Singapore.^[2]

Gu came to Singapore in 2003 under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme and became a Singapore citizen in June 2007.

Gu was part of the Singapore women's team who won the silver medal at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games held in Thailand. In 2012, Gu was selected as Singapore's only Olympic women's singles player for the 2012 Summer Olympics by the Singapore Badminton Association, ahead of Southeast Asian Games women's singles champion Fu Mingtian.^[3] At the 2012 Olympics, she qualified from her group before losing to Cheng Shao-chieh.^[1]

Gu resigned from the Singapore national team on 30 April 2014, citing injuries, tending to her aged parents and lack of progress in Singapore.^[4] Gu went to Shanghai for further studies.^[5] Sixteen months later after her resignation, she was persuaded by the Singapore national badminton team's head coach to re-join the national team.^[5]

Gu received the 2013 Meritorious Award from the Singapore National Olympic Committee.^[6]

BWF World Junior Championships

Girls' singles

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Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	The Trusts Stadium, Waitakere City, New Zealand	Wang Lin	14–21, 14–21	Bronze

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Asian Junior Championships

Girls' singles

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Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Stadium Juara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Liu Xin	7–21, 21–15, 16–21	Silver

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BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017.

Women's singles

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Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Malaysia Grand Prix Gold	P. V. Sindhu	17–21, 21–17, 19–21	Runner-up
2013	Dutch Open	Busanan Ongbamrungphan	12–21, 12–21	Runner-up

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  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

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Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Waikato International	Fu Mingtian	14–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2010	Banuinvest International	Hitomi Oka	23–25, 21–15, 4–21	Runner-up
2010	Vietnam International	Lee Hyun-jin	19–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2011	New Zealand International	Sayaka Sato	14–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2011	Singapore International	Xing Aiying	10–21, 12–21	Runner-up

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Women's doubles

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Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Croatian International	Zhang Beiwen	Cai Jiani Guo Xin	21–15, 6–21, 10–21	Runner-up

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  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists^[7]