A few days ago, Gao Min, known as the first generation of "diving queens", shared a running leisure video of her and her girlfriends Qian Hong and Wang Junxia. In the video, Gao Min laughs at himself as a flowery run, and under the guidance of former Olympic long-distance running champion Wang Junxia, the posture immediately becomes elegant and stretched. The combination of the girlfriends of these three Olympic champions has once again attracted the attention of many people, and the three sports women who have won glory for the country have also entered middle age, and the life experiences of the three people are somewhat similar and different, let us see their respective experiences and current situations.
Gao Min, a 52-year-old first-generation "diving queen": studied in the United States after retiring from the military, married two children twice, and devoted herself to public welfare undertakings after returning to China
As the first generation of "diving queens", Gao Min's sports career is very brilliant, from winning the World Swimming Championships in 1986 to retiring in 1992, these seven years can be called "lonely and defeated". She has won more than 70 gold medals in competitions large and small, more than the diving queen Guo Jingjing we are familiar with.
Gao Min was sent to practice swimming at the age of 4, and then met her enlightenment teacher Yang Qiang, who began diving training under the guidance of Yang Qiang. At the beginning of training, Gao Min was often reprimanded by coaches because his toes were not straight enough and could not complete the diving action perfectly. Later, in order to help her overcome this problem, the coach also used the ancient punishment tool "Tiger Stool". After almost brutal high-intensity training, she won the diving springboard championship at the World Swimming Championships at the age of 16, and since then she has begun the era of high-sensitivity diving.
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Gao Min competed with injuries and won the championship again. After this game, because of long-term high-intensity training, she had hydropulmonary fluid and a serious waist injury, so she officially announced her retirement, ending her sports career. After retiring from the army, she chose to study in the United States with her boyfriend Su Dong. In 1995, Gao Min married Su Dong, and shortly after the marriage, he gave birth to his son Su Chao, after which the family of three moved to Canada to live. In 1997, Su Dong wanted to transfer to Singapore for career reasons, so the two had a disagreement and announced their divorce, and their son was raised by Gao Min.
Gao Min with her two sons
Not long after the divorce, Gao Min met her second husband, Chen Zhigang. In 1998, Gao Min remarried Chen Zhigang and gave birth to his youngest son, Chen Weidong, the following year. In 2005, Gao Min and her husband returned to Beijing with their two sons, where she taught at a university while she has been committed to public welfare and philanthropy.
51-year-old "water butterfly" Qian Hong: a multi-millionaire who successfully started a business after retiring from the army and has three daughters
Qian Hong was known as one of the "five golden flowers" of Chinese swimming in the 1990s, she won the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, won 51 world championships, and was known as the most beautiful "water butterfly".
Qian Hong was born in 1971 to an ordinary family in Baoding City, Hebei Province. At the age of 9, she was selected by her coach to start practicing swimming. After winning the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Qian Hong chose to retire from the rapids, retired from the army and studied in Singapore, and then began to develop into the business world. Initially she worked with a Singaporean businessman on a children's clothing business, but it lasted for two years, and the collaborators canceled all the agreements with her. In 1998, Qian Hong raised funds to create a "Qian Hong Swimming Pool" in his hometown that gave it his own name.
In 1998, the Mongolian boy who has been obsessed with Qian Hong, Shehai, won Qian Hong's heart by buying the roses of the whole street. The two married and had three daughters.
After years of commercial accumulation, QianHong's career is now very stable, in addition to operating a swimming club, he also represents a well-known world swimwear brand, and has become a rich man with assets of more than 10 million. Qian Hong's eldest daughter also inherited her mother's sports genes and became a professional golf player.
Wang Junxia, 49 years old, "Oriental Sacred Deer": Three marriages, two sons and one daughter, after the love injury, he became a sports executive
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Wang Junxia won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 meters, becoming the first athlete in China to win the Olympic gold medal in long-distance running, known as the "Oriental Sacred Deer". Her achievements in athletics are also very remarkable: she won the gold medal in the 10,000 meters at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 and broke the women's world records in the 3,000 meters and 10,000 meters at the National Games in the same year. In 1994, she received the first Jesse Owens Award, the first time the award was given to Asia. In 2012, he was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame, the first track and field athlete in China and even In Asia to be inducted.
Wang Junxia was born in 1973 in a rural village on the outskirts of Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, to a difficult family. Unlike the glorious mark she left on the sports world, her love life did not go smoothly, and she experienced three marriages. Her first husband, Chinese footballer Zhan Yu, registered their marriage in 1997 and married in 2001, and had a son after marriage, but after the marriage lasted for 9 years, Wang Junxia chose to leave the house and end the marriage.
Wang Junxia and her second husband, Huang Tiantian
After the divorce, Wang Junxia went to Shanghai alone to develop and met her second husband, Huang Tiantian, a Chinese-American. In October 2008, Wang Junxia and Huang Tiantian held a Mongolian-style wedding, and the two had a daughter after marriage, but the marriage was not harmonious, and they were full of complaints and dissatisfaction. In January 2015, Wang Junxia and Huang Tiantian divorced, and Huang Tiantian also published a book called "Oriental Sacred Deer: My Wife Wang Junxia" to disclose the details of his marriage with Wang Junxia.
Wang Junxia and her third husband, Li Huiyang
In September 2015, 42-year-old Wang Junxia and her third husband, Li Huiyang, appeared on a television show, and her third husband was known to everyone. The two were introduced to each other by friends, and at the beginning, Wang Junxia also deliberately concealed her Olympic champion status, and soon after they met, the two held a wedding in June 2015 and had a son after marriage.
In 2019, Wang Junxia was elected as the president of Dalian Athletics Association by unanimous vote and served as the image ambassador of "Running Dalian". Now Wang Junxia lives a happy and stable life, and sometimes she will be a "network anchor" to teach everyone how to practice long-distance running and health.
Three 90s Olympic champions composed of a girlfriend trio, has a common sports career and glory, although everyone's life experience is not the same, but many years of sports career also made them more tenacious and optimistic character, into middle age they have more peace and calm, get along more pleasant and relaxed, in jogging to enjoy their own happy time.