The just-concluded 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has left people around the world with wonderful Olympic events. The Chinese sports delegation won a total of 9 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals, ranking third in the medal table, and the number of gold medals and medals reached a record high.
Edge shooting
Countless athletes have sweated in this Games, won glory for the country, and achieved good results again and again. As we all know, athletes are almost always found to be gifted from an early age and start training.
The first half of his life is basically all spent training all year round, in the best years of physical condition in life, participating in large and small events at home and abroad, realizing his ideals and winning glory for the country.
When athletes retire in their thirties, many athletes leave the field to do other jobs or continue their studies. However, some athletes do not accept defeat, nor do they accept the old, coupled with the particularity of sports competitions, but have not retired.
Zhang Shan, a 53-year-old "immortal gun god", is such an athlete who does not accept defeat. At the age of 53, Zhang Shan is still galloping in the international professional shooting arena, showing a cool and heroic posture.
Zhang Shan's life is also very exciting, and it is also a coincidence that he is exposed to shooting competitions. On March 23, 1968, an ordinary family in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, gave birth to a baby named Zhang Shan.
Zhang Shan's father was a middle school teacher, so when he named his daughter, he wanted his daughter to be tenacious and strong in the future, so he named her "Mountain".
Zhang Shan did not live up to his father's expectations, although he still had two older brothers on it, but he did not receive preferential treatment from girls at home. Therefore, Zhang Shan has developed the same personality as a boy since he was a child, and he likes sports very much, running, jumping and jumping.
In junior high school, he was selected by his teacher as a member of the school basketball team because of his flexible posture and height.
Zhang Shan is not only very talented in sports, but also talented in learning, diligent and hardworking. Even if you usually have to participate in the training of the basketball team, you never delay time in learning, which can be described as learning sports.
If Zhang Shan continues to develop in this way, he may be successfully admitted to the university through the college entrance examination and maintain the identity of the school basketball team. But fate changed all this, and it seemed that he did not want to bury the seedling.
In 1984, due to the shortage of talents, the Sichuan shooting team began to screen suitable shooting seedlings in various middle schools in Sichuan. Each middle school carried out a fierce screening test, and Zhang Shan, who was quick-eyed, responsive and flexible, became the object of attention of the selection examiner.
However, although Zhang Shan's physical fitness is very suitable for the conditions of a shooter, there is the same, Zhang Shan is at a disadvantage, that is, her age.
Fight for your dreams
At this time, Zhang Shan is 16 years old, and for athletes who need to be trained from an early age, it is not easy to practice shooting at this age, and it is necessary to pay more effort and sweat than others.
However, Zhang Shan planted the seed of wanting to become a gun god in her heart, and she was very eager to become a qualified professional shooter and gallop on the field. The selection teacher saw Zhang Shan's firmness and desire and decided to admit this little girl out of the box.
In October 1984, Zhang Shan left school and entered the Sichuan Provincial Shooting Team to start professional training. Relying on talent and hard work, Zhang Shan quickly stood out in the training team and became the best among the teenagers who were also selected for the team.
After less than a year of training, Zhang Shan also ushered in his first opportunity to step on the field. In 1985, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, hosted the first National Youth Games, and Zhang Shan participated in the shooting competition as a Sichuan team.
In this competition, Zhang Shan achieved very good results and won the second place in the women's two-way skeet. This competition also opened the way for Zhang Shan to compete, and began to participate in large and small shooting competitions at home and abroad, and always achieved very good results.
In 1989, at the World Skeet Championship held in Italy, Zhang Shan once again played a stable role, winning the women's two-way skeet team championship with his teammates, and winning the individual world championship with a score of 191 plus 23.
Participating in countless professional competitions, Zhang Shan also wants to have the opportunity to stand on the Olympic field that athletes dream of, prove himself, and win glory for the country.
Soon the opportunity came, in the 1990 Asian Games, Zhang Shan relied on steady performance and the joint efforts of his teammates to win two gold medals in the women's two-way flying saucer team and the individual
In 1992, at the Barcelona Olympic Games, Zhang Shan broke the world record, shooting 200 rounds of 200 shots, without false bullets, becoming a real gun god. This result was also exciting, but in the subsequent game, Zhang Shan was once again impressive.
In the mixed men's and women's competition, Zhang Shan won the championship with an absolute advantage, defeated all opponents with an overwhelming shooting level, and became the first female athlete to receive such an honor.
World War I fame
This is precisely because Zhang Shan is better than the male athletes this time, and the results are far ahead, so that the Olympic Games canceled the mixed competition between male and female athletes.
After all, for many people, male athletes who are more specific and powerful lose to female athletes, so that many people can't accept it. As a result, Zhang Shan also became the only female champion in the shooting event to win the mixed competition.
But when the whole country was celebrating, Zhang Shan was the most spirited. The IOC, on the other hand, made an unbelievable decision to cancel the women's two-way skeet race.
At this time, Zhang Shan was only 24 years old, which was the peak moment of athletes. If there is no two-way flying saucer competition, it means that Zhang Shan can no longer stand on the sports field abroad, and can only choose to retire.
Life is impermanent, and many times it is impossible to predict what will happen. Zhang Shan was forced to retire and go to the Department of Economics of Sichuan University to start his university life. Just as Zhang Shan's university life was coming to an end, the Olympic Organizing Committee decided to reintroduce the women's two-way skeet into the competition.
We don't know what the reason for this is, but for Zhang Shan, this news is happy to fall from heaven. Zhang Shan returned to the scene of the game again, looking forward to standing on the field again, sweating.
In 2000, Zhang Shan worked hard to get a ticket to the Sydney Olympic Games. In this competition, Zhang Shan not only achieved excellent results, but also gained love.
The two had met on the sports field in 1993 and did not expect to meet again at the Sydney Olympics. Barnes, who has long since retired, became a shooting referee, and the reunion and the same love for shooting brought the two together.
However, the love between the two did not go well, Barnes was eleven years older than Zhang Shan, coupled with the identity of a foreigner, Zhang Shan's parents were difficult to accept. There are also many people who speculate that the reason why Zhang Shan and Barnes are in love is nothing more than to join Australian citizenship and get more competition convenience.
Zhang Shan and Barnes broke through many obstacles and finally tied the knot, and she also made it clear that she would never change her nationality. Because when she wins the game, what she wants to hear is always the "Volunteer March".
Zhang Shan's love for shooting has also been carried through her life, and she said that she will never retire and will gallop on the shooting field all her life. To this day, the 53-year-old Zhang Shan is still active on the field, fighting for the dream he loves.