After the Olympic champion retired, many people have achieved great success in business, such as Li Ning and Li Xiaoshuang, and some people have shined in the political arena, such as Xiong Ni, who is already a cadre at the main department level, such as Li Shan, the olympic champion of the post-80s women's volleyball team who was recently promoted to a deputy department level cadre. It is worth mentioning that the post-85 Olympic champion Jin Ziwei became a deputy department-level cadre earlier than Li Shan, and she was promoted to deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Sports Bureau last year.
Most Olympic champions started with the sports brigade and the sports bureau, and Jin Ziwei was no exception.
Born in 1985 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Jin Ziwei played basketball and practiced long-distance running as a child, and later engaged in rowing, and her relationship transferred to Jiangxi, where she has since taken root.
Jin Ziwei competed in the women's eight-a-side sculls helmsman event at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and won the fourth place. After the Athens Olympics, Jin Ziwei switched to the women's four-man double sculls event and won the 2007 World Cup and the third place in the World Championships. In the women's quadruple sculls final of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Jin Ziwei and teammates Tang Bin, Xi Aihua and Zhang Yangyang defeated the championship-winning British team and won the gold medal. This is the first gold medal china has won in rowing since it participated in the Olympic Games.
At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, Jin Ziwei became the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation, which was the first time that the Chinese team had sent a female flag bearer since participating in the Asian Games, and she gained another honor.
Jin Ziwei retired in 2013 and became deputy secretary of the party committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Water Sports Management Center in 2014, and two years later became the party secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Water Sports Management Center, and later became the director of the center and deputy secretary of the party committee. In April 2021, at the age of 36, Jin Ziwei was promoted to deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Sports Bureau, and she also became the youngest deputy department-level cadre in Jiangxi.
In contrast, li shan, 41, was one of the members of the Chinese women's volleyball team that won the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. She retired in 2012, first as the deputy captain of the Tianjin Sports Brigade, then as the captain of the brigade, in 2018 she became the director of the Tianjin Drainage Management Center, and now she is the deputy director of the Tianjin Municipal Sports Bureau, serving as a deputy department-level cadre.