At the Budapest Swimming World Championships, "double insurance" Ren Qian and Si Yajie failed to insure in the women's 10m platform final, and China's diving "Dream Team" has missed the gold medal of the project at the World Championships for two consecutive years.
In their place on the podium is 27-year-old Malaysian veteran Zhang Junhong, a Chinese native of Taishan, Guangdong Province, who not only brought the first gold in the history of the World Championships to Malaysia diving, but also brought Yang Zhuliang, a Chinese coach who has worked hard for many years, to the forefront.
Of course, there are many domestic coaches like Yang Zhuliang who go abroad, go overseas to coach foreign teams, and even eventually lead the children and soldiers of foreign countries to achieve a "counter-attack".
Diving: Leaps and bounds to break the monopoly
In Yang's own words, before taking charge in 2001, Diving in Malaysia was "like burlesque diving". At that time, only 8 people in the entire diving team could complete 5 complete sets of competition actions, and even the sportswear for the competition was rented.
However, under the cultivation of Chinese coaches such as Yang Zhuliang, Malaysia's diving has made great progress: from winning the medal of the women's doubles 10m platform at the World Championships for the first time in 2009, to Pendrela winning the bronze medal in the Women's 10m platform at the London Olympics in 2012; from Pandrella winning the 10m platform at the 2015 World Championships, to the Rio Olympics a year ago, Pendrela joined Zhang Junhong on the podium of the women's doubles 10m platform... Today's Malaysian diving has overwhelmed Japan and South Korea and become the number one opponent of the Chinese team in Asia.
Yang Zhuliang's success is the epitome of many domestic diving coaches coaching overseas. Today, these overseas corps are found in countries such as the United States, Australia, Malaysia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico. Especially in recent years, the loss of gold of China's diving "Dream Team" is also closely related to the domestic coaches who coach overseas corps.
From Chandler Newbe, who won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics to Matthew Mitcham, who crushed the Chinese team's dream of winning 8 gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the two Australian rivals who blocked the Chinese team were all from Tong Hui's hand. Tong Hui as an athlete has won world championships many times, and after changing coaches, Tong Hui's coaching performance is also good - with the history of 7 people participating in the 6 people to win the medal in the Athens Olympics, he was also praised by foreign media as the "father of Australian diving".
A year later, at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, Zhou Luxin and Qiu Bo formed a "double insurance" that lost to Tom Daly of the United Kingdom on the men's 10 jump platform, and behind the prodigy was the careful cultivation of two Beijing coaches Chen Wen and Li Peng; and on the women's 10 jump platform, Ma Jin, also from the Beijing diving team, brought out the Mexican diving princess Espinosa Paula, who pushed the Olympic champion Chen Ruolin to win the championship.
The earliest domestic diving coach who came to coach overseas can be traced back to Liu Jirong, an early coach of diving queen Gao Min. Coincidentally, Liu Jirong is coaching Malaysia, which is now rising. At that time, Malaysia set up a diving team under her advice and guidance, and gradually improved the training venues. Since then, including Ren Shaofen, Zhou Xiyang and Yang Zhuliang, people have also come to Malaysia, which has led to the rapid development of Malaysia's diving.
Gymnastics: Large numbers of people diverse in type
From the earliest Li Xiaoping Wenjia and his wife founded the "South Coast Gymnastics Club" in the United States, to Li Donghua won the Atlanta Olympic Pommel Horse gold medal and became the pride of Switzerland; from the "foreign coach" Cai Huanzong of the French gymnastics team, to Tian Juping, who is the "mother of Australian gymnastics"... Compared with diving, the scale and number of domestic coaches in gymnastics are larger.
Among them, the most successful domestic coach is undoubtedly Qiao Liang, who has trained two Olympic champions for the United States. As an athlete, Qiao Liang won the Asian Games men's team championship and the world championship men's team bronze medal, but the injury caused him to withdraw from the stage of competition prematurely. After retiring from the army, Qiao Liang chose to develop in the United States and founded the "Joe's Gymnastics dance school" after 1998. It was also the same year that the school opened that Qiao Liang met 6-year-old Sean Johnson, who shined at the Beijing Olympics 10 years later.
At that Olympic Games, Beijinger Qiao Liang returned to his hometown after a gap of 14 years, and his beloved apprentice Sean Johnson used the three medals of women's balance beam champion, women's individual all-around runner-up and free gymnastics runner-up to add icing on Qiao Liang's trip home. Four years later at the London Olympics, Gabriel Douglas, another of Jolean's beloved apprentices, won the women's individual all-around title. In recognition of the gold-medal coach's outstanding contribution, the City of West Des Moines, Iowa, decided to name one of the city's roads "Joe's Olympic Avenue."
Today, the U.S. women's gymnastics team continues its gold-winning frenzy at the Rio Olympics, winning 5 of all 6 gold medals, and Byers has won four gold medals in the women's team, all-around, freestyle and vault. Behind such success, it is naturally inseparable from the careful tuning of Chinese coaches such as Qiao Liang, Han Qi, Zhang Jianhua, etc., and the competition between Chinese and American women's gymnastics for the highest honor is also more exciting because of their existence.
In addition, a group of overseas coaches represented by Cheng Liang and Ning Xiaolin have built a bridge of gymnastics cooperation between China and the world. Cheng Liang's long-term coaching experience in Canada has given him more experience in the construction of "happy gymnastics", and now the two sides are working together to transplant this concept to Chinese gymnastics. Ning Xiaolin, who serves as the coach of the French gymnastics team, will always use local resources to provide a good training and living environment for the visiting Chinese gymnastics team, and in return, the Chinese gymnastics team will also provide some technical guidance to France.
Yu Bo of Australia and Huang Weidong of Croatia have carried out the road of "pioneering" and "poverty alleviation" in two countries with a weak gymnastics foundation, respectively, and they have also promoted the development of local gymnastics projects to a large extent.
Table tennis: talent is abundant
As China's consistently advantageous project, the overseas coaching corps of table tennis does not need to be repeated. Among the many domestic coaches, the most famous and legendary is Liu Guodong, the brother of Liu Guoliang, the former head coach of national table tennis.
As early as the players, the brothers had an indissoluble relationship with table tennis. In order to achieve the goal set by their father Liu Zhansheng to win the world championship, the two worked very hard. As the younger brother, Liu Guoliang was even better at his talent in table tennis, so he entered the national team early and eventually achieved a grand slam of his career. In order to support his brother's dream, Liu Guodong gradually shifted his energy to the work of coaching.
At that time, after arduous preparation and exploration, Liu Guodong founded the Shaanxi Galaxy Guoliang Club in 2003, and the team completed three leaps in three years: rushing to the top, third place and even champion. Since then, Liu Guodong has been invited to serve as the head coach of the Singapore table tennis team, adhering to the principle of strict management of the army and standardized training in the club, he has cultivated players such as Li Jiawei and Feng Tianwei into world-class celebrities, and led the team to win the runner-up of the women's team of the Beijing Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.
Coincidentally, in the final of the women's team at the Beijing Olympics, the Singapore women's team led by the elder brother Liu Guodong met the Chinese women's team led by the younger brother. Although the older brother was still slightly inferior in direct conversation as a coach, the silver medal was Already Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years.
In addition to the legendary tales of the "Dongliang" brothers, domestic coaches have also played a key role in the direct dialogue between Chinese women's table tennis and Japanese women's table tennis in recent years. With Japan's successful bid to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese government and the Olympic Organizing Committee launched the "2020 Reserve Talent Training Program" for table tennis. Among them, hiring technically advanced Chinese coaches is one of the important aspects of this plan.
Nowadays, the Japanese team frequently "poaches" coaches and sparring partners from various chinese provinces, and even the sparring team is offered a salary of 200,000 yuan a year by Japan - compared to the provincial team's salary of only a few thousand yuan per month, such a salary is quite attractive. As a result, such as Liu Jie, Wang Rui, and Zhang Chengdu successively went overseas to serve, and their disciples were many national team players such as Ishikawa Yoshizumi and Hirano Miyu. At the Asian Championships in April this year, when Hirano Miyu won the women's singles championship by winning three consecutive national players, the Japanese women's table tennis plan to "defeat China with the Chinese model" has begun to bear fruit.
On July 21, Zhong Jinyong, who had coached Zhang Jike for a period of time in the national team, was signed by the South Korean women's table tennis team as a technical director. In Asia, the South Korean women's team, which is difficult to compete with China and Japan, has also taken an important step towards stealing divisions from China.