In the period from the Athens Olympic Games to the London Olympic Games, the national feathers reached the peak of history, the men's team had Lin Dan, the super demon king, the women's team had Zhang Ning, the first sister of the badminton, and other sports also had hegemonic athletes. However, compared with Lin Dan, Zhang Ning's popularity is much lower, coupled with her rare public appearance after retiring, so that many people do not know that she also won the Olympic championship twice and achieved the defense of the women's singles event. Zhang Ning, the 46-year-old queen of yutan, is still white and beautiful, and her state is quite good, and she also shows her trophy display cabinet to the camera, which looks awe-inspiring.
Born in 1975, Zhang Ning initially played badminton only after school hobby, but she did not expect to show great talent, and soon she was favored by the local sports school coach and began to receive vocational training. At the age of 15, Zhang Ning was selected for the national team, and at the age of 18, he won his first individual world championship title, and gradually grew into a key figure in the national women's team. However, the young Zhang Ning is not very optimistic from the outside world, because she has no particular prominence. But Zhang Ning's personal performance is very stable, and since entering the ranks of top players, he has rarely dropped the chain in foreign competitions.
Because of this, in the final of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Zhang Ning defeated the Dutch star Zhang Haili to win the championship. At that time, Zhang Ning was 29 years old, and many female athletes had long since retired, but she had just reached the peak. What is even more unexpected is that Zhang Ning can play for another 4 years and become a legend in the feather world. In the 2008 Olympic Women's Singles Final, Zhang Ning and teammate Xie Xingfang successfully met the teacher, and the 33-year-old relied on stronger psychological quality and more stable play to successfully defeat her opponents and achieve the Olympic women's singles title under the condition that she did not have an advantage in physical fitness and technology. Shortly after the match, Zhang Ning announced his retirement and directly entered the national women's singles group as a coach.
Zhang Ning's first coaching of Guoyu lasted for 5 years, and in 2013, the Women's Team of Guoyu lost to the World Championships, and the women's singles event played poorly, and she was dismissed from her post and temporarily retained as the coach of the second team. After another 5 years, with the large-scale changes in the national badminton coaching team, Zhang Ning returned to the first team coaching team, but at that time, the Chinese badminton team was in the stage of new and old alternation, many young players did not play out, the old players were close to retirement, the results were very dismal, a few months later, Zhang Ning was deposed for the second time, or returned to the second team to coach. The continuous blows in her career have doubled the pressure on Zhang Ning, and with the retirement of Former Lovers such as Li Xuerui, she has gradually moved away from the national feather coaching lineup.
In terms of personal life, Zhang Ning experienced two marriages, her first husband was the former Guoyu Mingying Yang, and the marriage between the two lasted for 6 years. Zhang Ning's second husband was Li Ang, a German 11 years older than her, who was also a badminton player in his early years, and later went to the sea to do business and developed in Germany for a long time. After the two married, Li Ang stayed in Germany to do business, and Zhang Ning lived in China with his daughter, because both of them were very busy at work, gathering less and leaving more every year, and it is said that the two have been separated for 9 years.