On February 17, China's Gu Ailing ranked first with 95.50 points, and joined Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui to advance to the final of women's U-shaped track skills in freestyle skiing. You may not know that Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui are our Harbin players.
Zhang Kexin at the Winter Olympics
There is such an iron law in winter sports - "The snow sports have to get the Winter Olympics".
The vast majority of us are familiar with ice sports such as speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, and ice hockey, but in fact, snow sports are the big gold medal winners at the Winter Olympics.
Snow sports, including alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and other racing events, but also snowboarding, freestyle skiing, ski jumping and other highly ornamental skills, as well as biathlon, Nordic skiing and other comprehensive projects that integrate speed, physical fitness and competition, involving 15 major events and 179 minor events.
Harbin has been involved in snow sports since 1987 and has always been far ahead of the curve, leading the country. He has also won the World Cup race many times internationally.
A total of 12 Kazakh athletes participated in the snow sports of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, of which 7 were trained by the Harbin Winter Training Center. Liu Jiayu, Zhang Kexin, Li Xin, Shang Jincai... He has created a number of Olympic bests in snowboarding U-shaped track skills, freestyle skiing U-shaped track skills, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and other events.
Skier Shang Jincai (second from right) at the Winter Olympics
Charge "on the snow" for 35 years,
Harbin leads the country with an absolute advantage
From the establishment of the first snow sports team to the absolute advantage of leading the country, in the past 35 years, every step of Harbin has been solid and brilliant.
In 1987, the Harbin Ski Team was founded, at that time, there were only 2 coaches and 10 "soldiers", focusing on alpine skiing and cross-country skiing.
Today, Harbin's snow sports are in full bloom, and the winter sports training center ski team now has 6 competition teams, and the participation projects cover almost all snow sports. From the 7th Winter Games in 1991 to the 13th Winter Games in 2016, this snow-strong soldier has been the first in the number of gold medals and medals. In international competitions, they have also made new achievements, liu jiayu, Zhang Yiwei, Zhang Kexin and other athletes, representing the country to win a number of world championships.
Young athletes train in yabuli winter
"Compared to racing events that require more physical fitness, Chinese have an advantage in the skis of skill." Born in 1971, Luan Haiyan was one of the first cross-country skiers to form a ski team in Harbin, and now, as the director of the Ski Department of the Winter Training Center of the Harbin Municipal Sports Bureau, she is a treasure to talk about the growth and transformation of the team over the years.
Minister Luan told reporters that the Harbin team has achieved gratifying results in the skill category. In the snowboard U-shaped track skill event, Liu Jiayu is already the elder of the four dynasties of the Winter Olympics, and the best result is the silver medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which has achieved a breakthrough for the Chinese team to zero Olympic medals in this event. She finished eighth at the Winter Olympics. In the men's event, Zhang Yiwei's best result was sixth at the Sochi Winter Olympics. At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Zhang Kexin finished ninth in the women's group of the ski U-shaped track skills event, which is also the best result achieved by mainland athletes in this event.
Liu Jiayu at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
In terms of traditional skiing, Harbin athletes Li Xin, Shang Jincai and other athletes won the tenth place in the women's relay event of cross-country skiing and the thirteenth place in the men's relay event in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which is also the best place for mainland athletes in the Olympic cross-country skiing event. Li Xin won all 4 gold medals in the women's cross-country skiing group in the 13th National Winter Games, and was the hegemon in China. On February 17, Kong Fanying ranked 15th in the alpine skiing women's all-around event, the best place for Chinese alpine skiing women's all-around events!
Kong Fanying in the Olympic games
Rapid growth,
Huge investment is a solid backing for good results
Wang Libin, 44, is a coach at the "Freestyle Ski U-Shaped Trough Field" at the Winter Sports Training Center in Harbin. In just a few years, the young players brought out by the cross-country skier-turned-coach have shined in major events. In addition to winning individual and team championships in a number of domestic competitions, Zhang Kexin, who he brought out, also won the 2019 and 2020 FIS Freestyle Ski U-Field World Cup and North American Cup competitions.
Wang Libin and Zhang Kexin in training
"The huge investment in the city is a solid backing for creating these achievements," coach Wang said heartily when asked by reporters about the secret of success.
Skiing is a very "money-burning" sport. All the equipment used by the athletes is imported, snowboards, snowballs, helmets ... Usually a set down will cost tens of thousands of yuan, if you want to produce good results, good equipment is often thirty or forty thousand yuan a set. Moreover, the equipment wear and tear in the training is very serious, the skateboard is broken, the equipment is worn, so the continuous high cost is difficult for the average family to bear.
In addition, in order to provide athletes with high-quality training venues, the Harbin Municipal Sports Bureau also spares no expense. Coach Wang told reporters that the cost of the U-shaped trough site is very high, many provinces do not have their own venues, and our team members can conduct winter training in Yabuli every year. In order to extend the snow period, it is also necessary to go to Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin Changbai Mountain and other places for external training. Summer is not idle, every year to pull the team to Sichuan, Qinhuangdao and other places, bubble training and water training, polishing aerial technology.
Young athletes in training
The youngest of these young athletes is only about ten years old, and the eldest is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and they spend almost all year round in the team and study cultural lessons. In addition, in order to reduce the injuries of athletes, the team is also equipped with monitoring equipment, massage therapists, team doctors, and do a good job in logistics support. Coach Wang said emotionally: "Every step of their growth is inseparable from the cultivation of the country. "
With love,
Sticking to the cold winter casts "snow" brilliance
Athletes are bitter, athletes who do winter sports are even more bitter, and compared with ice sports, snow sports train outdoors all year round, which can be described as bitter and bitter.
When the reporter interviewed Coach Wang Libin, it was the Lantern Festival, and he did not come down from the mountain until 3:30 p.m. He told reporters it wasn't nothing. The snow season in Harbin is generally from mid-November to March and April of the following year, and the winter training time is very precious, and it is also necessary to prepare for the Winter Games, so he only rested for two days this year's New Year. In order not to delay training, they did not rest for the first two years of the New Year.
Wang Libin and the little athletes trained in Yabuli winter
At present, most of the 8 young team members led by Coach Wang are from the grass-roots sports schools and schools in Acheng, Hulan and Bayan. These children train in the field at minus 20 or 30 degrees every day, and injuries are a common thing, "For us, a fracture is equivalent to a cold, and after three months it is a good man!" "
What's the secret to bringing out world-class freestyle skaters? In the face of the reporter's question, Coach Wang smiled and said: "There is no good way, one is to pick up videos to imitate the skills of excellent athletes, and the other is to learn and explore from gymnastics and martial arts." Then there is the strict management of the team and serious training! "
Coach Wang Libin
Luan Haiyan told reporters that coaches like Wang Libin are not alone, they are away from their families and children for many years, braving the cold and small athletes in the snow nest, closed training for several months. They not only studied the technology, but also practiced eighteen martial arts: they repaired the sports equipment when it was broken, they did not have clothes to do it themselves, and they personally cut the children's hair without a barber on the mountain... Every gold medal and every breakthrough in the Harbin snow sports condenses the persistence and passion of these grassroots coaches who truly love ice and snow sports!
Today (February 18), Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui will fight alongside Gu Ailing on the U-shaped field. Looking forward to their glory for the country and creating a new glory of snow sports!
Source: Harbin News Network
Reporter: Han Bing
Editor: Ma Yunpeng