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Ge Fei and Gu Jun (right) won the badminton women's doubles gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
Ge Fei and Gu Jun are the badminton women's doubles gold medalists in the Atlanta and Sydney Olympic Games, playing invincible hands all over the world, known as "the world's first double" and "the east is undefeated".
From March 1996 to 1999, Ge Fei and Gu Jun did not lose a single game in an international competition, and the number of consecutive wins reached a staggering 100.
Such an invincible combination of women's doubles, the two walked off the court but rarely intersected. After retiring from the military, Ge Fei and Gu Jun are married and mothers, what is the current situation of their lives?
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Ge Fei was born in 1975 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, his father Ge Zusheng was the construction section chief of Nantong Construction and Installation Company, and his mother Wang Xiuying was the party secretary of a workshop of Nantong Second Textile Machinery Factory.
Gu Jun in the early years
Ge Fei is the only daughter in the family, she was weak when she was a child, and when she was 6 years old, her father gave her badminton to play.
Ge Zusheng and his wife's income is not high, and they add up to only about 60 yuan per month.
In addition to sending some money to their parents in the countryside, the rest of the money is used to train their daughter to play badminton. Ge Fei has been very sensible since he was a child, even if he eats a piece of watermelon, he must dig up the sweetest part for his parents to eat.
Jiang Yongyi, the former coach of the national badminton team, commented on Ge Fei: She is a doubles prodigy and has met once in 10 years.
In 1987, at the age of 12, Ge Fei was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial Badminton Team and became a professional badminton player. Later, the coach arranged for Ge Fei and Gu Jun to pair the women's doubles.
Ge Fei (left) and Gu Jun in the early years
Gu Jun, the same age as Ge Fei, was born in 1975 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Gu Jun's father, Gu Deyuan, was the director of the Wuxi Sifang Ma Iron Factory, and Gu Jun's mother, Li Nanzhen, worked at the factory.
Gu Jun is also a very spirited girl, entering the Jiangsu Provincial Badminton Team at the age of 14, specializing in women's doubles. At that time, Gu Jun and Han Jingna cooperated in doubles, and later partnered with Ge Fei.
In 1993, Ge Fei and Gu Jun were both selected for the national badminton team. At that time, the national badminton team fell into a low point, and the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games did not win a gold, and the team used the women's doubles as a breakthrough for the next Olympic Games.
Ge Fei plays in the front court, she is fast on the Internet, the small ball in front of the net is excellent, the defense is steady, the distribution of the ball is reasonable, and she can create offensive opportunities for Gu Jun.
Gu Jun focuses on attacking from the backcourt, she attacks quickly, with great strength and tenacious defense.
Tian Bingyi
Ge Fei and Gu Jun are an excellent combination. At that time, there were 5 pairs of women's doubles in the main layer of the national badminton team, and Ge Fei and Gu Jun were the top seeded players of the national team. The two's head coach is world champion Tian Bingyi.
In 1993, Ge Fei's father tragically died of illness, pushing her and her mother into great grief. Ge Fei turned grief into strength and trained harder.
Ge Fei in life is introverted and not good at words; while Gu Jun is lively and extroverted, and has more words. Because of the contrasting personalities, the two on the court are a perfect match, but there is little intersection in life.
In addition to training and competition, Ge Fei and Gu Jun rarely play together, neither of them lives in a dormitory, and neither side has invited each other to dinner.
Girls' minds are more delicate, and Ge Fei and Gu Jun will also have small stumbles in training. Before the 1996 All England Open Badminton Championships, Ge Fei found Tian Bingyi and said that Gu Jun liked to nag, and he couldn't accept it, and asked to break it up.
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Goffey
Tian Bingyi does work for Ge Fei: Gu Jun's personality is relatively straight, you don't pay attention to it, she loves to nag and wants to play the ball well. You and Ge Fei are the key players in the team, and they have paid a lot for you in all aspects, how can you say that the right one is right?
Subsequently, Tian Bingyi also did work for Gu Jun: Ge Fei has a different personality from you, and you should pay attention to ways and methods when you speak in the future.
Immediately after, Tian Bingyi gathered Ge Fei and Gu Jun together and gave them a metaphor: a good pair of doubles players should have 3 legs, each of which is tied together, so that they can cooperate with tacit understanding. Now that you two have the strength to win the Olympic championship, you must cherish the opportunity to win glory for the country. How many beats can you have in life?
Ge Fei and Gu Jun's hearts were deeply touched, and since then the two have not had a small quarrel, and any ideas from both sides have been put forward in time to communicate together.
During the preparation for the Atlanta Olympics, Tian Bingyi often asked the men's doubles players to give Ge Fei and Gu Jun sparring. Tian Bingyi also practiced with Li Yongbo with Ge Fei and Gu Jun many times.
In 1996, Ge Fei Gujun was at the Olympic Games in Atlanta
In July 1996, the Atlanta Olympic Games kicked off, and Ge Fei and Gu Jun accompanied the Chinese delegation. In the badminton women's doubles final, Ge Fei and Gu Jun met with South Korea's Ji Yongya and Zhang Huiyu.
The South Korean pair were world champions, ranked first in the world at the time, and were determined to win the gold medal. However, at the beginning of the game, Ge Fei and Gu Jun launched a powerful attack, and the game was one-sided.
As a result, Ge Fei and Gu Jun scored two 15-5 disparities and cut each other under the horse and won the Olympic women's doubles gold medal. This is also the mainland's first Badminton Olympic gold medal.
After winning the gold medal at the Olympics, Ge Fei returned to her hometown, she put the gold medal in front of her father's portrait, and said with tears: Dad, I have not lived up to your expectations, and now I am an Olympic champion. Rest in peace over there, don't worry about the family, I will take care of my mother and hold this family up.
After Gu Junzaiyu returned to Wuxi, a series of unexpected stories also occurred. This year, Gu Jun's father served as the director of Wuxi No. 4 Textile Machinery Factory, a state-owned enterprise with more than 500 employees and more than 200 retired employees.
Gu Jun
Over the past few years, the factory has lost millions of yuan, and the wages cannot be paid in time. Gu Deyuan wanted to go to the bank to take out a loan, but the bank did not lend, and he was anxious about it.
In order to save the textile machinery factory, Gu Deyuan consulted with his daughter and wanted to take her gold medal to the bank for a mortgage.
Gu Jun agreed, and she gave her father 16 gold medals and a pure gold can, as well as 60,000 US dollars. Subsequently, Gu Jun accompanied his father to the Wuxi branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
The Olympic champion came to the scene, the bank attached great importance to it, and successfully lent 1 million yuan to the textile machinery factory. It is this money that brings the textile machinery factory back to life, and the products produced are exported overseas.
Hundreds of employees are grateful to Gu Jun and his father.
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Ge Fei and Gu Jun (left)
After Ge Fei and Gu Jun won the gold medal in the Olympic Games, they became the target of research by athletes from all over the world, and they conducted targeted training for Ge Fei and Gu Jun.
However, Ge Fei and Gu Jun's strength is too strong, they see who destroys whom, ranking first in the world for many years.
In May 1997, at the World Badminton Championships held in Glasgow, England, Ge Fei and Gu Jun won the women's doubles championship.
In August of the same year, in the Indonesia Badminton World Cup, Ge Fei and Gu Jun won the gold medal again.
In the Uber Cup and Sudirman Cup matches, Ge Fei and Gu Jun also played as the first doubles.
From March 1996 to 1999, Ge Fei and Gu Jun never lost a world-class match, creating the myth of 100 consecutive wins.
Yang Wei (left) and Huang Nanyan in the match
However, while preparing for the Sydney Olympics, Ge Fei and Gu Jun lost. It was April 1999, at the Badminton World Championships in Japan, Ge Fei and Gu Jun lost to teammates Yang Wei and Huang Nanyan.
It was not news that Ge Fei and Gu Jun had won, but that the loss had become particularly big news. For the first time, the two tasted failure and were in a hurry to sleep.
After returning to Beijing, the coach invited Ge Fei and Gu Jun out and invited them to a meal. They communicate while eating and analyze the reasons for the loss.
After eating, Ge Fei and Gu Jun's hearts opened up.
In September 2000, the Sydney Olympics began. On the eve of the expedition, many media outlets across the country predicted how many gold medals the mainland would win at the Olympic Games.
Ge Fei and Gu Jun won the women's doubles gold medal in badminton at the Sydney Olympics
Among them, the women's doubles gold medal of Ge Fei and Gu Jun is considered to be a nail in the coffin, which brings great pressure to the two.
At this time, Ge Fei and Gu Jun were already veterans of hundreds of battles and had become the target of the impact of players from all over the world. After living in the Olympic Village, the two encouraged each other and decompressed each other.
As a result, they reached the final, and in the peak duel with teammates Yang Wei and Huang Nanyan, Ge Fei and Gu Jun laughed to the end, defeating their teammates 2-0 and winning the Olympic gold medal.
After the Olympic Games, Gu Jun's father's fourth textile machinery factory, in order to thank Gu Jun for his original contribution to the enterprise, in the case that Gu Deyuan did not attend the meeting, the factory leaders unanimously decided to reward Gu Jun with 200,000 yuan.
Gu Jun set up a special fund in the factory with the 200,000 yuan bonus to reward the workers and scientific and technological personnel who contributed to the factory.
Ge Fei and Sun Jun's wedding
In 2001, Ge Fei and Gu Jun both retired. Ge Fei was assigned to serve as deputy director of the training department of Nanjing Institute of Physical Education.
On May 8, 2002, Ge Fei and Badminton World Champion Sun Jun held a wedding ceremony in Nanjing.
Sun Jun, the same age as Ge Fei, was born in 1975 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, he is 1.74 meters tall, and he is shorter among male athletes.
Sun Jun has a high sense of badminton, but his body is thin, which belongs to the open-end assault style of play, and he is a defensive counterattack player.
Due to his general physical condition and serious injuries, Sun Jun did not win the Olympic gold medal, and the best result was the men's singles championship of the 1997 Badminton World Cup.
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Sun Jun
In 1997, Ge Fei and Sun Jun established a romantic relationship. When the two competed in Hong Kong this year, Sun Jun also invited Ge Fei's mother and his parents to Hong Kong for a reunion.
Mother Ge and the sun family's parents have similar personalities and get along very happily. Sun's parents like Ge Fei's steadiness, and Ge's mother likes Sun Jun's liveliness and cheerfulness, and hopes that the two will not have any changes in the future.
Ge Fei was an Olympic champion with outstanding appearance and stature, and there were boys with superior conditions who expressed good feelings for her at that time, but Ge Fei was unswerving in her love and refused.
In the national badminton team, Ge Fei and Sun Jun encouraged each other and strived to appear on the highest podium of the Olympic Games together. However, in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Sun Jun's results were not ideal because of injuries, and Ge Fei took her boyfriend's wishes and joined forces with Gu Jun to win the gold medal.
Sun Jun and son
After marriage, Ge Fei gave birth to a son, Sun Wenjun. The son inherited the excellent sports genes of the Ge Fei couple and began to receive formal badminton training in 2016.
At this time, Sun Wenjun was 14 years old, although he practiced a little late, but he improved quickly and quickly became the main player of the badminton team in Jiangsu Province.
In 2019, Sun Wenjun and his partner Hua Chong won the third place in the national badminton U17 finals, and then he was selected to join the national badminton second team.
Ge Fei is now the deputy director of the Nanjing Sports Bureau, his son is a main member of the badminton team in Jiangsu Province, and her husband Sun Jun is also a civil servant.
Ge Fei has a stable career, a happy marriage, and a son who is actively motivated, and her life is complete.
Gu Jun
So what is the current situation after Gu Jun's retirement?
It turned out that Gu Jun had received a marriage license with her boyfriend Li Jianguo as early as 1999, but he had no time to hold a wedding.
Gu Jun and Li Jianguo were introduced to each other, he is 8 years older than Gu Jun, doing business in Hong Kong, the business scope involves real estate, hotels, etc., rich in wealth.
At that time, Gu Jun was prejudiced against businessmen, believing that businessmen valued profit over righteousness, but after contacting Li Jianguo, she felt that the other party regarded feelings as more important than business. Coupled with Li Jianguo's careful care of Gu Jun, she gradually accepted him.
In an interview, Gu Jun said that he and Li Jianguo have experienced many twists and turns in their love, and it is not easy to get together.
At the wedding scene, Fu Mingxia kissed Gu Jun
On January 15, 2001, Gu Jun and Li Jianguo held a wedding in Wuxi, with Olympic diving champion Fu Mingxia as a bridesmaid. Because of her mother's illness, Ge Fei was unable to come to the scene to congratulate her
After marriage, Gu Jun entered the Law Department of Peking University for further study. After graduation, Gu Jun gave up the job arranged for her by the relevant departments and became a freelancer.
On Christmas Day 2006, Gu Jun gave birth to his daughter Tong Tong. Gu Jun's husband has business in Beijing and Hong Kong, and after marriage, Gu Jun lives with his daughter on both sides.
After retiring, Gu Jun basically did not play badminton. In addition to taking care of her daughter at home, she also participates in various public welfare activities.
Gu Jun did not put pressure on herself, nor did she put pressure on her daughter, she did not force her daughter to play badminton, nor did she report various training classes to her daughter.
Sun Jun and son Sun Wenjun
Due to her husband's superior economic conditions, Gu Jun's life is moist and elegant.
In 2022, Gu Jun's daughter is 16 years old, and Gu Jun is also 47 years old. Gu Jun's figure in middle age is still beautiful, his hair is dark, and his face is white and tight, which looks particularly attractive.
Although he took housewives as a profession, Gu Jun did not have the slightest anxiety and loss. In her mind, she regards her family, daughter, and husband as more important than her career, and is willing to pay for her family.
It is undeniable that Ge Fei's life after retiring from retirement is very complete, Gu Jun is also very happy, and the former "world's first pair" is married to a good family!
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