On December 16, Beijing time, due to Quan Hongchan's outstanding performance in the Tokyo Olympic Games, in the recent world sports awards Lawrence Award shortlist, Quan Hongchan's name was prominently listed, becoming one of the candidates for the "Best Breakthrough of the Year" award. This is undoubtedly the biggest recognition of Quan Hongchan's performance on the field, as a sports athlete, to be shortlisted for lawrence's grand prize candidate, good enough.
You know, in the past, the individual athletes who won awards in the Chinese sports world in Lawrence were Yao Ming, Liu Xiang and Li Na and other representative figures of the times, and now Quan Hongchan is on a par with these legendary predecessors at the age of 14, and can only sigh the excellence of Quan Hongchan and the excellence of individuals.
The Lawrence World Sports Awards said, "As a 14-year-old prodigy, the Tokyo Olympics was the first international competition in which Quan Hongchan participated, and in 5 jumps, she won the 'full score of ten points' unanimously given by 7 referees and won the gold medal in the 10 meters." In the third jump, she scored six 10 points and one 9.5 points. The total score was 466.20 points, setting a new record. She is the second young Chinese diver to win the gold medal. Athletes competing for this award with Quan Hong chan include US Open women's singles champion Raducano and Barca rising star Pedri and others.
This time selected as a candidate for the Lawrence Award, Quan Hongchan is not alone, her brother Cao Yuan in the national team, was shortlisted for the "Male Athlete of the Year" candidate, and the entire Chinese diving dream team was selected as the "Best Team of the Year" award candidate. Among them, the Chinese diving team won a total of 8 gold medals in 8 events at the Tokyo Olympic Games. With full dominance, excellent team, individual athletes are also extremely excellent, China Diving Dream Team, worthy of the name, is the proud representative of Chinese sports!
For the 14-year-old Quan Hongchan, her era has just begun, there will be more opportunities to impact this world sports award in the future, conservative estimates that Quan Hongchan can still participate in at least 2 Olympic Games, if the state remains good enough, it can even participate in 3 more sessions. This means that Quan Hongchan still has the opportunity to win more Olympic gold medals, Quan Hongchan's new head coach Chen Ruolin, who won as many as 5 Olympic gold medals during the athlete period that year, became one of the best athletes in the history of the world diving field, Quan Hongchan can take Chen Ruolin's achievements as a goal to chase and try to surpass her coach.
Of course, if Quan Hongchan cannot continue the championship strength in the future, just because she jumped out of the Olympic record at the age of 14 to win the championship, it is enough to leave a name in history, and it is already a performance that has created unprecedented and difficult to come. It is only because of the excellence of Quan Hong chan today, most people in the outside world will look forward to the subsequent development and performance of Quan Hong Chan, people expect this little girl to continue to create magic, if you can witness the growth process of a legendary figure, it is a wonderful happiness. In mid-December, Quan Hong Chan will participate in the exhibition competition organized by FINA in the United Arab Emirates, and the subsequent competition tasks are the World Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games, and soon the outside world can continue to see the heroic posture of Quan Hong Chan and once again witness the performance of Quan Hong Chan to attack the champion!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)