Recently, Wang Junxia posted a dynamic on Weibo, she and her former teammate Qu Yunxia reunited, the two in the photo are full of smiles, like the appearance of a young man.
Speaking of Wang Junxia and Qu Yunxia, we have to mention the "famous scene" of the Chinese athletics "Double Xia Flying Together" that they created.
In 1990, Qu Yunxia won the 1500m running championship at the 3rd World Junior Athletics Championships; In 1991, he won gold medals in the 800 meters and 1500 meters at the Asian Athletics Championships. In the same year, he won the 1500m at the 16th World University Games and broke the Asian record.
In 1992, Qu Yunxia participated in the 25th Olympic Games for the first time, winning the bronze medal with a time of 3:57.08, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win a medal in the Olympic middle running event.
In 1993, she won the gold medal in the women's 3000 meters at the 4th World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart. Wang Junxia won the gold medal in the women's 10,000 meters with a time of 30 minutes 49.30 seconds at the World Championships and set a world championship record.
The situation of "double xia flying together" has officially begun.
In the same year, Qu Yunxia won the women's 1500m championship at the first East Asian Games and the women's 3000m championship at the Asian Athletics Championships. Wang Junxia won the 5th World Cup Marathon in San Sebastián, Spain, with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 16 seconds.
In 1994, Wang Junxia participated in the athletics competition of the 12th Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan, winning the women's 10,000 meters championship and breaking the Asian Games record. Qu Yunxia won the 800 meters and 1500 meters of the Asian Games.
In 1996, Wang Junxia won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 meters and the silver medal in the women's 10,000 meters at the Atlanta Olympic Games, becoming the first athlete in China to win the olympic long-distance running gold medal and the only middle-distance runner in China to win the Olympic Games, world championships and World Cup "Golden Slam".
In 1992, 1993 and 1994, Qu Yunxia won the title of Top Ten National Athletics for three consecutive years. In 1993, he was awarded the national "March 8th" red flag bearer and the top ten athletes in the country by the All-China Women's Federation. In 1994, he was named one of the "45 Heroes of Sports for the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China".
At the end of 1993, Wang Junxia was named the first of the "Top Ten Athletes in China", and won the title of "Best Athlete of Global Sports" and "Top Ten Athletes" of The World by Universal Television. In 1994, he received the 14th Jesse Owens International Award in New York, USA, which was the first time that a Chinese and Asian athlete had won this award. In 2012, she was also inducted into the World Athletics Hall of Fame and is currently the only long-distance runner in Asia to be inducted.
Now reunited with her former teammates, Wang Junxia lamented the time of struggling together in the past. I hope that in the new year, everyone will strengthen their health, pay more attention to their physical health, and cheer for Wuhan together!