Hebei famous Zhang Cuiping shot 6 gold and 3 silver at the National Paralympic Games
From a small-town tailor to a sharpshooter The life changed by shooting
At 1:30 p.m. on October 21, Xi'an Changning Ecological Sports Training and Competition Base.
Reload, aim, pull the trigger... syllable! 10.3 rings! The whole audience boiled, Zhang Cuiping surpassed the world record with a total score of 460.2 rings, and won the gold medal in the sh1st women's 50m rifle of the 11th National Paralympic Games, drawing a perfect end to his own shooting competition at the National Paralympic Games!
Three match days, a total of 6 gold and 3 silver, two super national records, this is the paralympic Games Zhang Cuiping handed over the report card, the entire paralympic games shooting field blew up a "Zhang Cuiping" storm. But it's hard to imagine that such a world-class sharpshooter was once a small-town tailor.
From a small town tailor to a sharpshooter, this road Zhang Cuiping has been walking for 18 years, in zhang Cuiping's words: "This road is not easy." ”
The picture shows Zhang Cuiping's competition site in the 11th National Paralympic Games. Hebei Daily reporter Zhang Hao photographed
"It was shooting that changed the course of my life"
Zhang Cuiping was born in 1987 in a small village in Handan City, Hebei Province, and at the age of three, Zhang Cuiping fell severely disabled in his left leg due to polio. Because of polio, she had a hard time walking, and when she was in elementary school, she had to carry her parents back and forth to school. This situation continued until Zhang Cuiping graduated from junior high school.
After graduating from junior high school, Zhang Cuiping dropped out of school to start learning tailoring techniques, not because Zhang Cuiping did not study well, but because she could not bear to let her parents carry herself to and from school and home every day.
When he was 15 years old, Zhang Cuiping came to a garment factory as a tailor with the help of the Disabled Persons' Federation. Zhang Cuiping, who has just arrived at the tailoring factory, is actually very happy, because seeing others wearing clothes of his own design can make Zhang Cuiping feel a sense of accomplishment that he has never experienced.
At that time, Zhang Cuiping even thought that he had been like this in his life.
This lasted until 2003, when the Hebei Provincial Disabled Shooting Team came to Zhang Cuiping's city to recruit team members, and Zhang Cuiping decided to try it under the persuasion of his co-workers, and what everyone did not expect was that it was successful.
Zhang Cuiping said: "It was shooting that changed my life path and made me find a stage to pursue my dreams. ”
"Realizing your dreams requires constant persistence"
Zhang Cuiping, who came to the shooting team, knew that this was an opportunity to change his fate, and it might even be the only chance, so Zhang Cuiping worked very hard during training, but even so, Zhang Cuiping's shooting path was still full of twists and turns.
According to Zhang Cuiping's coach Wang Jian recalled, Zhang Cuiping began to practice pistol projects, because the results were average, in the middle of practicing weightlifting for a period of time, the results were not very good, at that time the coach who took her thought that Zhang Cuiping's strength was too big and not suitable for the pistol project, and the team was ready to let her leave the team. "Just the day before I left the team, Zhang Cuiping took the initiative to find me and pleaded with her to give her another six months to try the rifle project." Wang Jian also felt that she had a momentum of disobedience that ordinary people did not have, so he agreed.
In the winter training, everyone has to train outdoors, Zhang Cuiping is no exception, sitting for several hours, hand frostbite Zhang Cuiping does not give up. In the summer, you have to wear a training suit to train in the sun, and you can sit for hours at a time. Zhang Cuiping persevered by relying on his extraordinary willpower, and his achievements began to rise.
In 2005, Zhang Cuiping participated in the national competition for the first time, in that competition, Zhang Cuiping was inexperienced in the competition, and she only won the last place due to her nervous performance. "At that time, we didn't give up, and she and I both held our breath in our hearts, that is, to win back, to fight out!" Wang Jian said that after returning to the team, Zhang Cuiping began to train more wildly, so we insisted on practicing for another year.
In 2006, Zhang Cuiping appeared again in the national shooting competition for the disabled, and the projects he participated in basically entered the top three. Zhang Cuiping's shooting path has gradually embarked on the right track, and at the Seventh National Paralympic Games in 2007, Zhang Cuiping won his first gold medal. At the provincial paralympic games held in the same year, Zhang Cuiping won two more gold medals with a single blow. Relying on the excellent performance of these two competitions, Zhang Cuiping was selected by the national team and began his national team career.
Since then, Zhang Cuiping has won a number of championships, and in this year's Tokyo Paralympic Sh1 women's 50m rifle three-posture event, Hebei shooting star Zhang Cuiping, who competed for the fourth time in the Paralympic Games, won the gold medal and broke the world record with a score of 457.9 rings.
Zhang Cuiping said: "I also thought about giving up, but there has always been a voice in my heart, telling myself to persevere, I must persist. ”
"I want to stick with it for a few more years, and the next Paralympic Games will play better"
From learning to shoot to becoming a first-class athlete, Zhang Cuiping spent nearly four years, and this speed is neither slow nor fast. In the eyes of coach Wang Jian, Zhang Cuiping is not a talented athlete, but he is the athlete who is most unwilling to lose.
Wang Jian said: "It is the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and not accepting defeat that has made Zhang Cuiping, and in so many years of competition training, I have two things that have impressed me. ”
Wang Jian brought both sound athletes and disabled athletes, once it was time for a break, everyone went to dinner, because it was not in the same venue, Wang Jian forgot Zhang Cuiping in the training ground, and Wang Cuiping had been training until everyone came back.
Participating in the Tokyo Paralympic Games this year, the first competition project Zhang Cuiping lost the first place 0.7 rings, did not get the gold medal, then on fire, gums are swollen, a breath on the toothache, afraid of doping checks can not pass, has not dared to take medicine, in this case, Wang Cuiping gritted his teeth and insisted on winning the gold medal of the second event.
"Some friends around me said that I was old, and it was time to consider retiring, but I was really reluctant to do so." Wang Cuiping said that he feels that shooting is like his own child, after so many years of technical improvement is not easy, "I really don't want to hold on to this gun in my hand, I still want to insist on a few more years, I hope that the next Paralympic Games can play a better result, for our Hebei glory." (Reporter Kong Siyuan)
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