In the history of Chinese sports, the old women's volleyball team in the 80s occupies a very heavy weight, and they have achieved brilliant results in the "five consecutive championships" in the world competition, of which Zhang Rongfang is a team member who has made significant contributions to the "five consecutive championships".
Zhang Rongfang has a nickname called "Strange Ball Player", in the field of the main attack and receiving the second pass, 1 meter 74 she is a small man on the volleyball court, but she combined her physical conditions, honed the "three diao one fast" (eyes fast, hand fast, foot fast, ball road) technical characteristics.
Zhang Rongfang entered the national volleyball training team in 1976, the 1981 Women's Volleyball World Cup and the 1982 World Women's Volleyball Championship, she twice helped the women's volleyball team win the championship as the main force. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, which was the first time that the Chinese women's volleyball team appeared on the stage of the Olympic Games, Zhang Rongfang was 27 years old at this time, serving as the leader of the Chinese women's volleyball team, she led the team to win the gold medal and achieved the great cause of three consecutive championships.
After the Olympic Games, Zhang Rongfang chose to retire, and then she married Hu Jin, who has since served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the two are the only couple who have served as the head coach of the women's volleyball team of the national team. Just as the two were getting ready for their wedding, the 1985 World Cup disrupted their plans. At that time, Deng Ruozeng took over Yuan Weimin as the head coach of the women's volleyball team, and Hu Jin became an assistant coach, so Hu Jin had to focus on leading the women's volleyball team to compete for the "four consecutive championships", and the marriage between the two could only be postponed.
After the women's volleyball team won the "four consecutive championships", Zhang Rongfang and Hu Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the two also held a wedding. But not long after the sweet days, the new challenge fell in front of the newlyweds, Deng Ruozeng's guidance retired, and the leader arranged for Zhang Rongfang to serve as the new manager of the Chinese women's volleyball team, because the women's volleyball players at that time most admired their role models Zhang Rongfang and Lang Ping, and Hu Jin would serve as the head coach of the Chinese youth women's volleyball team.
At that time, 30-year-old Zhang Rongfang was pregnant and belonged to an advanced maternal age, but in the case of less than three months from the World Championships, Zhang Rongfang was in danger and ran for the women's volleyball team every day. After a group of veteran players retired, the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team at that time has declined. At that time, cuba and other teams were very strong, and Zhang Rongfang's challenges were more severe than ever.
And her former teammate Lang Ping also accompanied her this time, under the leadership of the two and the efforts of the team members, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship of the tenth World Championship in 1986, and achieved the hegemony of the women's volleyball team". In the subsequent 10th Asian Games, Zhang Rongfang led the women's volleyball team to win the championship. In order to commemorate these two champions, Zhang Rongfang named her child Hu Shi.
Zhang Rongfang's fate with volleyball is not over, after stepping down as the coach of the national team, she served as the deputy director of the National Sports Volleyball Management Center. Her husband, Hu Jin, took over the national team coaching whip after the 1988 Seoul Olympics, but since he only led the team to 7th place at the 1992 Olympic Games, Hu Jin's first national team coaching trip could only end.
In 1999, Hu Jin took over the Chinese women's volleyball coaching whip from Lang Ping's hand and went out of the mountain for the second time. Prior to this, Lang Ping led the team to win the third place in the 1995 World Cup, the runner-up at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the runner-up at the 1998 World Championships, when the outside world hoped that Hu Jin could lead the women's volleyball team to recast the glory at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and stand on the highest podium. But this time, Hu Jin led the team to achieve the 5th place result, and could only resign again. At that time, there were rumors that Hu Jin was able to take office because of the recommendation of Zhang Rongfang, who was working in the General Administration of Sports at the time, but these were speculations.
In 2015, Zhang Rongfang resigned from the leadership position related to the drainage center due to illness and began to retire. As the first hero in the history of Chinese volleyball to win the world championship as a player and coach, to some extent, it is she who has achieved the "five consecutive championships" of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and also wished Zhang Rongfang a happy retirement life.
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Author: Mou Yunshang
Editor-in-charge: Mou Yunshang