Recently, Gu Ailing, a U.S.-born skier with Chinese ancestry, and Zhu Yi, a figure skater, have become Chinese nationals, representing China in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
And with Chinese ancestry - the father is a Chinese, the mother is British, Born in London, England on October 25, 1989, the equestrian huatian retired from british nationality that year, after changing to Chinese nationality, he represented the Chinese national equestrian team to participate in the competition, also deserves our attention!
At that time, 18-year-old Hua Tian participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for the first time as a member of the Chinese national equestrian team. Become the youngest knight in history. He is also an athlete who officially debuted in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games in the triathlon. At that time, he was the only one in the Chinese equestrian team who qualified to compete and represented the Chinese equestrian team. He competed in London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. He also finished 8th in the equestrian individual triathlon at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and at last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, he won the second place in the dressage competition.
In addition, in 2009, Huatian was selected as the first 21-year-old best rider in the history of the International Equestrian Federation, and also became a figure in the list of "famous old Eatonians".
In 2010, Huatian participated in the "Bloomington" competition and the "Burleigh" competition, and became the "inspiring" image figure of the INTERNATIONAL HORSE Federation equestrian sport.
In 2014, Huatian won the second place in the equestrian triathlon at the Incheon Asian Games.
On December 15, 2016, Huatian was nominated for the 2016 CCTV Sports Personality of the Year Breakthrough Award.
In October 2017, Huatian won the 2017 Big Ben Awards Top Ten Chinese Athletes in the Sports Category (Heratlers Award).
On August 26, 2018, Huatian won the bronze medal in the men's three steeplechase at the Equestrian Competition at the Jakarta Asian Games.
Huatian, who is 33 years old this year, has been the "lonely Olympian" since he created history in 2008 and became China's "only seedling" in the equestrian sports of the Beijing Olympic Games, until the Rio Olympic Games. But he rewritten history again in 2021, when huatian finally waited for a team to compete at last year's Tokyo Olympics – the first time that a Team Qualifier in a sport dominated by a strong European team.
Huatian said: "I was alone from Beijing and Rio, and at that time I saw the team members from other countries riding in the car, training together, going to the stable together... Although I don't feel lonely, I still wonder if I missed a very important part of the Olympic Games. This time, we finally had a more complete Olympic experience. In addition to Huatian, Sun Huadong and Bao Yingfeng are all newcomers to the Olympic Games, which is a milestone in the development of Chinese equestrianism.
For this year's upcoming Asian Games, Huatian is full of expectations! He said: "The equestrian events for the Beijing Olympics were held in Hong Kong, China, and the Hangzhou Asian Games is the first time I have competed in Chinese mainland, and I am very excited about this. After the bronze medal at the last Asian Games in Jakarta, Huatian is now looking forward to riding the love colt chocolate and rushing to the higher podium.
Huatian has played an important role in the development of equestrianism in China! I look forward to Huatian standing on the highest podium at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China!
