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Zhang Ning
Zhang Ning is the Olympic champion of badminton in the sports world, and has won the women's singles championship of badminton at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. She is also the only athlete in Olympic history to defend the women's singles gold medal in badminton.
Zhang Ning is a typical late bloomer, only to win one of her own World Series singles titles at the age of 28, and she was 29 years old when she won the Athens Olympics.
Zhang Ning's road to fame is soaked with tears, bumps and hardships, and her emotions are also vicissitudes, and she remarries after divorce. Zhang Ning's remarried husband Li Ang developed in Germany, and the couple has been separated from each other for many years, but I don't know how Zhang Ning is living now?
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Zhang Ning was born in 1975 in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, his father Zhang Shicai served in the army, his mother Chang Huimin worked in the factory, and Zhang Ning had a younger brother named Zhang Kai.
Chang Huimin suffered from lumbar disc herniation in her 30s and could not get out of bed when the disease occurred. Zhang Shicai often travels on business, Zhang Ning not only has to go to school, but also has to take care of his mother and brother, and has experienced the hardships of life since he was a child.
When he was a child, Zhang Ning was very thin and weak, but his physical fitness was good, and he was a middle-distance runner in the school when he was in elementary school. She set a record of 800 meters and 1500 meters, and no one broke the school for 5 years.
Every time the competition won, Zhang Ning could get a lot of prizes such as toothpaste, toothbrush, pillow towel and so on. She gave all these prizes to her mother, so that Chang Huimin did not buy them for three or four consecutive years.
In 1984, Du Zhixin, badminton coach of Jinzhou Sports School, came to Nansi Primary School to select seedlings, and at a glance, he caught a good look at Zhang Ning, who was well-proportioned.
Zhang Ning's parents
But Zhang Ning had to take care of her mother and brother and was reluctant to go to sports school. So Coach Du came to Zhang Ning's home to do work, and he said to Chang Huimin: "Zhang Ning is a rare badminton seedling, it should not be buried, you will overcome the difficulties at home and let her practice." ”
Yes, you can't delay your daughter's future because of the family situation, Chang Huimin turned to support her daughter to go to the sports school to practice badminton.
Zhang Ning's home is far from the sports school, which has to go out at 5:30 every morning, and she has to get up at 4:30 a.m. and then ride a bicycle alone to the sports school for training.
There is a 300-meter-long alley in front of the house, there are no street lights in it, and it is black and rumbling. Every time Zhang Ning rode through the black alley, the tip of his hair stood up so nervously. Even so, Zhang Ning never missed classes.
In 1987, the Liaoning Provincial Children's Badminton Tournament was held in Jinzhou City, and Zhang Ning defeated many players who were three or four years older than her to win the fourth place in the women's singles.
Bai Lihua, the badminton coach of the Liaoning Provincial Sports School, felt that Zhang Ning was a piece of jade, and after careful carving, she could become a big instrument, so she recruited her to the provincial sports school. In this way, 12-year-old Zhang Ning left Jinzhou and went to the provincial city alone to play.
Under the sculpting of the coach, Zhang Ning's badminton talent was revealed, and his achievements improved by leaps and bounds. In 1989, Zhang Ninggang was selected for the Badminton Team of Liaoning Province at the age of 14.
Chang Huimin and her husband did not trust their daughter and went to Shenyang to visit Zhang Ning after a while. She steamed the white-noodle steamed buns at home and brought them over, and Zhang Ning said, "Mom, I can eat white-noodle steamed buns every day in the sports team, so you can take them home." ”
She put herself in her old sportswear and asked her parents to take home for her brother to wear. The daughter's understanding made Chang Huimin burst into tears.
During the training of the provincial team, Zhang Ning only went home to spend a few days with his parents during the Spring Festival. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, she gets up and goes outside for a run to stay in good shape. Even the snow did not stop, and as a result, she returned home with a snowflake.
Zhang Ning and coach Li Lingwei
In November 1991, Zhang Ning was selected for the national badminton team under the famous coach Chen Yuniang. Later, Coach Chen left the team, and Zhang Ning practiced with Li Lingwei.
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From 1987 to 1994, Zhang Ning has no salary, and Zhang Ning has to bear the usual training costs, pocket money, and the cost of going out to compete. For this reason, Chang Huimin and her husband are under great financial pressure.
Chang Huimin did not go to the hospital when the lumbar spondylosis attacked, and even the medicine was reluctant to take. Her son's socks were broken, and she was reluctant to throw them away, so she sewed them with needles for her son to wear again. The whole family can't eat meat once in half a month.
In June 1994, Zhang Ning won the Women's Singles Championship of the French Open Badminton Championships, which began to receive wages. Since then, the financial pressure of Chang Huimin and her husband has eased.
Zhang Ning is 1.75 meters tall, with a long arm, and is an offensive female player. Her personal conditions are better than Ye Zhaoying, Gong Zhichao, and Dai Yun, and she is most likely to become the leader of the Chinese badminton team.
However, a game defeat made Zhang Ning a marginal player of the badminton team. It was July 1994, and the Uber Cup final was held in Jakarta, the capital of Malaysia.
The first four sets of The Chinese team and the Indonesian team were 2-2, and the fifth set was decided by 19-year-old Zhang Ning as the third single. She faced Zhang Haili, a talented girl from the Indonesian badminton team. Zhang Haili was 4 years younger than Zhang Ning, and she was only 15 years old at the time.
It was a life-and-death battle, and Zhang Ning, who participated in the World Series for the first time, was too stressed psychologically, and the result was a 1-2 loss to his opponent. Zhang Ningyi lost, allowing the Chinese badminton team to lose the Uber Cup that had been maintained for 5 years.
This defeat made Zhang Ning besieged by fans, and she also lost the opportunity to participate in the World Series.
Whenever the World Series comes, the coaching staff would rather consider players younger than Zhang Ning than let her play. Zhang Ning was immersed in loss and bitterness.
In July 1996, when his teammates were full of ambition to participate in the Atlanta Olympic Games, Zhang Ning dragged his suitcase alone and returned to the Badminton team in Liaoning Province.
On the train, Zhang Ning remembered the hardships he had come all the way and couldn't help but burst into tears. At that time, Zhang Ning's biggest wish was to win a singles world championship, so that the relevant departments could arrange a job when he retired in the future.
In 1998, Zhang Ning jumped to the top of the world ranking and had every opportunity to participate in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. However, because Zhang Ning was late for a training session, he was suspended for half a year.
After not playing for such a long time, Zhang Ning's points dropped and he lost the opportunity to participate in the Sydney Olympic Games. The depression in her heart cannot be described in words.
Zhang Ning and teammate Zhang Jiewen won the gold medal of the women's team at the 15th Asian Games
Despite one blow after another, Zhang Ning chose to stick to it. If she retires now, the future will be very bleak, and she is really unwilling.
In 2003, Zhang Ning won the World Badminton Championships, her first world singles title. At this time, Zhang Ning was 28 years old, and her contemporaries Ye Zhaoying, Dai Yun and Gong Zhichao had already retired, and only Zhang Ning was still fighting on the field.
In an interview with the media, the reporter said that Zhang Ning was late in life. Zhang Ning said with tears: "If you can choose, who wants to be a big instrument late?" Zhang Ning's victory in the World Championships made his parents in Jinzhou cry uncontrollably.
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At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Zhang Ning reached the final. On August 19, the women's singles final began, zhang ning against old enemy Zhang Haili.
Zhang Ning and Zhang Haili
10 years ago, Zhang Ning lost to Zhang Haili in the Uber Cup, making himself a marginal player, and that kind of pain and loneliness has been with Zhang Ning for 10 years. Today, when they meet again, it can be said that it is Zhang Ning's revenge battle.
Zhang Haili is the silver medalist in women's badminton singles at the Atlanta Olympic Games, and has defeated Zhang Ning, dominating in psychology and momentum, and is determined to win this gold medal.
At the beginning of the game, Zhang Haili fought quite fiercely, and used various tactics such as point killing, splitting, pulling and adjusting skillfully, and won the first round.
From the second inning, Zhang Ning seized on Zhang Haili's weaknesses of being fat, short and moving slowly, and frequently pulled Zhang Haili's backfield.
Zhang Haili was tired of running for her life, tired and out of breath. In the end, Zhang Ning was full of momentum, pulling two sets in a row and cutting Zhang Haili under the horse 2-1.
Zhang Ning won the championship
This Olympic gold medal also ended Zhang Ning and Zhang Haili's 10-year long-cherished wish, and her heart knot was completely opened. After winning the championship, Zhang Ning cried with joy!
Zhang Ning's parents were invited by CCTV to watch the game together, and at the moment when Zhang Ning won the championship, Chang Huimin and her husband cried loudly. The daughter is 29 years old, and only they know how much hardship she has gone through along the way.
Originally, after the Athens Olympic Games, Zhang Ning could retire on the spot, but Coach Li Yongbo hoped that she would stay and play another Olympic Games.
Between national interests and personal interests, Zhang Ning chose the former. During the preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Ning's meniscus injuries in both knees were very serious, swollen like purple eggplant.
At the end of each day's training, she lay alone in bed, with more than a dozen ice packs around her legs, and she took the ice packs herself for cold compresses.
Zhang Ning and Xie Xingfang (left)
Once Chang Huimin went to Beijing to see her daughter, it happened that the doctor was treating Zhang Ning, and the doctor drew a syringe and a syringe of blood from Zhang Ning's knee, and Zhang Ning was in unbearable pain and made a tearing cry. Chang Huimin couldn't bear to look at it and hid in the corridor and cried.
In July 2008, 33-year-old Zhang Ning reappeared at the Beijing Olympic Games. In the final, she defeated teammate Xie Xingfang 2-1 to successfully defend the women's singles title. Zhang Ning thus became the first athlete to win the Olympic women's singles gold medal in badminton.
At the age of 33, Zhang Ning won gold in the Olympic Games, and Zhang Ning wrote a legend in his life.
As early as November 2001, Zhang Ning and athlete Yu Yang received a marriage license. Yu Yang is a native of Dalian, Liaoning Province, with a strong body and a simple personality.
Yu Yang is a men's doubles player on the national badminton team and has not achieved any impressive results. He retired in 2000 and served as a men's doubles coach on the National Badminton Second Team.
Zhang Ning and Yu Yang
In November 2004, Zhang Ning and Yu Yang held a wedding in Dalian. After marriage, Zhang Ning ate and lived in the sports team, and her life was no different from when she was single.
Due to various reasons such as gathering less and leaving more, personality differences, Zhang Ning and Yu Yang have a gap. In the winter of 2008, Zhang Ning and Yu Yang broke up calmly and friendly.
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After returning to singles, Zhang Ning served as the head coach of women's singles in the national badminton team. In 2012, Zhang Ning remarried Li Ang. Li Ang is a native of Tianjin and was a former main player of the national badminton team, and was a teammate with Li Yongbo.
He is 11 years older than Zhang Ning, ran a sporting goods company in Germany after retiring, and also served as the head coach of the German badminton team.
After marriage, Zhang Ning and her husband were separated from each other. In 2012, while preparing for the London Olympics, Zhang Ning was found to be pregnant. She did not make a special because she was pregnant, wore loose clothes every day, and came to the training ground early to guide the team members to train.
Due to the intensity of the work, Zhang Ning was physically and mentally exhausted, had a loss of appetite, and often vomited. Her husband was not around, and Zhang Ning could only take care of herself.
At the London Olympics in August 2012, Li Xuerui and Wang Yihan of the Chinese badminton team won the Olympic women's singles championship and runner-up.
As an athlete, Zhang Ning won two Olympic gold medals in a row; as the head coach, she led the athletes to win gold, and Zhang Ning was the first person in the world badminton world.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Ning with their daughter
In December 2012, Zhang Ning gave birth to his daughter Li Kexin in Beijing. Li Ang only took care of his wife and daughter in Beijing for half a month before returning to Germany to work. Chang Huimin came to Beijing from Jinzhou to help her daughter and son-in-law take care of the baby.
Since then, Zhang Ning has been separated from her husband across borders. Li Ang usually returns to Beijing once every two or three months to reunite with his wife and daughter.
At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the national women's team did not enter the final due to talent gaps, plus some other reasons.
In 2018, zhang Ning, 43, left the national badminton team and began training in youth badminton. Li Ang knew that his wife was not easy in these years, left Germany to return to China for development, and Zhang Ning and her husband finally ended their transnational separation life.
In 2019, Zhang Ning set up a badminton training base in Fujian to provide reserve talents for the national badminton team.
Zhang Ning presents the World Badminton Federation Hall of Fame Certificate
In view of Zhang Ning's status and influence in the world of badminton, on June 21, 2021, Zhang Ning was inducted into the World Badminton Federation Hall of Fame.
In an interview, Zhang Ning said that thanks to the BWF for her affirmation and the love of the fans, she will devote her life to the cause of badminton.
In January 2022, Zhang Ning was 47 years old, and her daughter was 10 years old and attended primary school. Her husband was by her side silently supporting her. Today, Zhang Ning is happily married, has a happy family, and is engaged in her favorite badminton job, and she is very content with her current life.
"Savor Celebrity" Reviews:
Zhang Ning won her first World Series singles title at the age of 28, the Women's Singles Title at the Athens Olympics at the age of 29, and the Beijing Olympic Women's Singles Champion at the age of 33.
Zhang Ning with her daughter
Zhang Ning can be described as a late bloomer, every footprint along the way is soaked with tears, hardships and bumps, and his career has a bit of tragic color.
She is a typical inspirational woman, and her never-say-die spirit inspires and infects people. In her case, many athletes retire early without hope, and Zhang Ning chose to stick to it and finally achieve his own glory.
No one can succeed casually, and Zhang Ning's success tells us that the biggest enemy of man is himself, and if he defeats himself, he may succeed.
Zhang Ning's love affair was bumpy, and after experiencing a failed marriage, she finally found happiness. Now her career and life are very successful, I wish her a better and better future!
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