At the recently concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese weightlifting team participated in 8 small events, achieved a good result of 7 gold and 1 silver, and together with the Chinese diving team, it became the representative team that contributed the most gold medals in this event. In fact, the prestige of China's weightlifting dream team has a long history, in the past few years, countless "Hercules" in the Olympic arena bloomed, but most of them are plagued by injuries, it is likely to reach the peak and quickly fade out of the stage, there is a person who has won 2 consecutive Olympic championships, he is the weightlifter Zhan Xugang.
Born in 1974 in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, Zhan Xugang was physically strong and athletically gifted, and was sent by his parents to the local sports school for training. At the age of 13, Zhan Xugang was selected for the Zhejiang Provincial Weightlifting Team and officially stepped into the professional arena. Weightlifting is a sport that requires extremely high physical fitness, and in most cases, younger athletes are more likely to succeed, and Zhan Xugang is a young celebrity. In 1993, Zhan Xugang, who was less than 20 years old, was selected for the national team and was trained as the main player of the Chinese weightlifting team to prepare for the Olympic Games. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Zhan Xugang successfully won the men's 70 kg weightlifting championship and broke three world records, when he was only 22 years old.
Later, Zhan Xugang increased his weight to 77 kg class, don't look at just more than 10 pounds of weight on the body, the requirements for strength and physical coordination and technology are higher, and many athletes do not adapt to physical changes in time, resulting in several years of efforts being wasted. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Zhan Xugang's performance was indeed not as good as 4 years ago, and the snatching event was only 160 kg, ranking only 4th. But what people did not expect was that in the last deadlift, Zhan Xugang tried 207.5 kilograms that had never been lifted, and unbelievably successfully challenged, and won the championship with the advantage of the same overall score and lighter weight, achieving a stunning reversal.
After retiring from the army, Zhan Xugang did not enter the national weightlifting team to teach like Zhang Guozheng, but chose to enter politics, initially serving in the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau, and later transferred to the vice captain of the Zhejiang Sports Team, in charge of weightlifting, judo and taekwondo. After the Athens Olympic Games, Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College was established, and Zhan Xugang served as the head of the competition profession, focusing on weightlifting. After several years of training, Zhang Xugang was promoted to vice president of the school in 2012 and was in charge of a number of tasks. Later, Zhan Xugang also briefly served as the deputy county magistrate of Sanmen County, and returned to Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College in 2018 as the dean, and is now a deputy department-level cadre.
In addition to his career, Zhan Xugang's personal life is also happy and happy, as early as when she was an athlete, she met a flight attendant girlfriend, which is also his first love. Zhan Xugang usually needs training competitions, and there is not much spare time, and the flight attendant is also very busy, but both are willing to wait for each other. After Zhan Xu just retired from the army, he finally had time to fall in love, and the relationship between the two quickly warmed up, and a wedding was soon held. After getting married, Zhan Xu just became a cadre, and his flight attendant wife also gave up her job and concentrated on her husband and children at home, both of them belong to people with relatively low-key personalities, and they usually do not take the initiative to send dynamics and show affection. But after so many years, I have never heard of Zhan Xugang and his wife having a conflict, and the two have never had negative news, which can be called a model couple.