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Ma Junren
In the 1990s, Ma Junren was extremely popular, and the "Ma Jiajun" he trained was well-known at home and abroad, among which Wang Junxia, Qu Yunxia, Dong Yanmei, Liu Dong, etc., were all world-class middle-distance runners.
At the 1993 World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, "Ma Jiajun" won three gold medals in the 10,000 meters, 5,000 meters and 3,000 meters respectively, shocking the world sports world.
In the same year, "Ma Jiajun" participated in the Spanish World Marathon, winning the team championship in one fell swoop and winning the top four women's places. The international sports world exclaimed: "The world's long-distance running has entered the era of Ma Junren!" ”
However, at the peak of the "Ma Jiajun", in 1994, Wang Junxia and other disciples fled en masse, which led to the famous "rebellion incident" in the history of mainland sports. Ma Junren's heart was broken by his disciples, and he faded from the public eye.
So after leaving the coaching position, where did Ma Junren go? What has he been doing all these years? Ma Junren and his wife Zhao Shuqing, what kind of ups and downs do they have?
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In the early years, Ma Junren (3rd from left) led the team to compete abroad
Ma Junren was born on October 28, 1944 in Qinjia Village, Taziling Township, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, with 8 brothers and sisters, and Ma Junren ranked third in the family. Ma Junren's father was an honest handlebar who supported the family by driving a carriage.
In 1956, Ma Junren's family moved to Nanhu, a suburb of Anshan City. In 1958, his father was hospitalized due to overwork, and Ma Junren dropped out of school to catch a carriage for his father.
After Ma's father was discharged from the hospital, the teacher found his family to persuade him: Ma Junren is talented and intelligent, and it is a pity to drop out of school, so let him go back to school. Father Ma agreed.
A few days later, the father stuffed a reluctant tortilla into Ma Junren: Son, don't catch the carriage, go to school.
The filial piety of Ma Junren wants to help his father shoulder the burden of life and refuses to return to school.
His father stripped Ma Junren of his clothes and pushed him off the carriage. Ma Junren lay naked on the snow, staring at his father without a word.
Young Ma Junren
My father asked him: Are you going to school? Ma Junren froze and trembled, and trembled as he spat out two words from his mouth: Don't go.
His father kicked him with his foot, coughing violently as he kicked, and finally collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. Ma Junren, worried about his father's illness, said with tears: I will go to school.
Father and son hugged and cried. This was the only time in Ma Junren's life that he was subjected to corporal punishment by his father.
Ma Junren is good at physical education, and when he graduated from junior high school, he was sent to the school for two months of further study, and returned to work as a physical education teacher at the school.
A few months later, the troops came to their hometown to recruit soldiers, and Ma Junren enlisted in the army and served as a public security soldier in the Independent Second Division of the Liaoning Military Region. He was repeatedly named "Five Good Warriors", or the "Top Military Pentathlon" in the Big Competition, and later promoted to squad leader.
Ma Junren has a strong sense of enterprise and is bent on pursuing self-improvement, and he has not returned home once in 3 years. Mother thought of him madly.
Ma Junren instructed the team members in training
In April 1969, my mother accidentally fell into a well in her hometown and died. Ma Junren did not see the last side of his mother, which became a pain and regret in his heart.
In 1970, Ma Junren was demobilized from the army and was arranged by the relevant departments to study at the "May Seventh" Normal School. A year later, Ma Junren became a physical education teacher at Anshan No. 55 Middle School.
At this time, Ma Junren was 27 years old, and he became the eldest youth of that era. Ma Junren, who is 1.83 meters tall, has a large body, looks a little heroic, plus has been a soldier, has a tough temperament, and is liked by some girls.
In 1972, Ma Junren married Zhao Shuqing. She is two years younger than Ma Junren and is a kindergarten teacher at the school. After marriage, the couple successively gave birth to sons Ma Xiaosong and Ma Xiaoliang.
Physical education teachers were not taken very seriously in school, but Ma Junren was very enterprising and decided to make achievements and win dignity for himself.
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In 1973, Ma Junren established a rural middle school sports team, which included basketball, track and field teams, and table tennis teams.
Early years Ma Junren
In order to solve the training expenses, Ma Junren went up the mountain on Sunday to cut firewood to sell, and as a result, he broke his leg and could not get off the ground for 4 months.
Under the guidance of Ma Junren, the school's basketball team, athletics team and table tennis team participated in the Municipal Middle School Students' Games and achieved good rankings.
To this end, the Anshan Daily carried a comprehensive report on Ma Junren, and he became a celebrity in the education system of Liaoning Province.
After that, Ma Junren was transferred to Anshan City No. 17 Middle School and 29 Middle School to coach. In 1981, Ma Junren was transferred to teach at 67. In which school he taught, he formed a sports team in which he taught. To train with the team, he broke 4 bikes.
Every morning in the school, there will be such a spectacular scene: Ma Junren is riding in front of him, and a group of children are running behind. In the winter he doesn't ride his bike and runs with his children in the snow.
Some people accused Ma Junren of being too cruel in his heart and not taking the student's body seriously. Ma Junren pretended not to hear.
Ma Junren with the team
At that time, he received a salary and never gave it to his wife, but went to the market to buy hens and boil soup for the children to drink, and he was reluctant to drink a sip. Zhao Shuqing supported her husband's work, and sometimes Ma Junren was too busy to come, so she boiled chicken soup and gave it to the children to drink.
In 1982, Ma Junren's training team member Liu Yanju participated in the Shanghai Marathon and won the second place in the youth 10 km run.
Anshan No. 67 Middle School was named a traditional athletics school by the State Education Commission and the State Sports Commission.
At that time, Cui Dalin, the captain of the Liaoning Provincial Athletics Team, admired Ma Junren very much and let him serve as the coach of the Liaoning Provincial Athletics Team.
In August 1986, the state education commissioned Ma Junren to lead four female athletes to Portugal to participate in the world student 3000 meter cross-country race.
This was Ma Junren's first time abroad, and his self-esteem was greatly hurt. It turned out that the players and coaches in Europe and the United States felt that Chinese athletics were not good, and never looked at Ma Junren and the players.
Ma Junren cheered on the players on the field
Unconvinced, he told the team members of his grievances and asked them to win glory for the country. The patriotism of several team members was ignited, and as a result, the Chinese team won the team championship and won the top three. When the national anthem sounded and the national flag was raised, Ma Junren burst into tears.
In the same year, under the arrangement of relevant departments, Ma Junren served as the coach of Anshan Amateur Sports School.
In 1988, Ma Junren formed the Liaoning Women's Middle-distance Running Sports Team, and after selection, he selected a group of team members such as Wang Junxia, Qu Yunxia, Ma Liyan, Liu Dong, Zhang Linli, etc., and formed the "Ma Family Army" that shocked the world in the future.
At that time, the "Ma Jiajun" trained at the Liaoning Training Base all year round. Ma Junren regarded the training base as his home and these children as his daughters.
Most of these team members are from rural areas and have ordinary families, and Ma Junren feels that if he brings them out, he will have to be responsible for the team members and give them a bright future.
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In Ma Junren's view, only by training with a large amount of exercise can the team members produce results. So at 4:30 a.m., he woke up the team members to go out for a run, running an average of 40 to 50 kilometers a day.
On February 1, 1994, in New York, USA, Wang Junxia and coach Ma Junren held the Owens Trophy together and prepared to return to Beijing.
When the intensity of the exercise is the highest, a half marathon is run a day. Due to the excessive amount of exercise, the toenails of the team members all ran off, and the fibula, knees and other parts were injured.
Ma Junren has a hot temper, treats the team members simply and rudely, and often scolds the team members and cries. But in order to improve the performance of athletes, Ma Junren also paid a huge sacrifice, he boiled Chinese medicine for the team members every day to nourish the body, often sleeping late at night.
Because the intensity and pressure of the work were too great, in 1990, Ma Junren's pancreatitis recurred. He suffered from this disease in 1978, worried about affecting the training of the team members, Ma Junren only stayed in the hospital for two days, and then returned to the team with drugs.
He can't eat greasy things, can only eat light vegetables all year round, and often feels that he is exhausted.
His wife Zhao Shuqing came to the team to take care of him for two days, and Ma Junren asked her to go back, on the grounds that her staying in the team would distract him.
After the pancreatitis was cured, Ma Junren developed an enlarged caudal sclerosis of the pancreas. He did not have time to go to the hospital for treatment, and could only take medication to maintain it.
Ma Junren in an interview with the media (photo taken in the early 1990s)
Sometimes the pain attacked, Ma Junren could not get up from the bed, and the pain was so painful that his forehead was full of cold sweat.
In 1991, Ma Junren led the team to winter training in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. When it was almost the New Year, Zhao Shuqing had a tumor on her chin and was operating in the hospital. The doctor, worried that it was malignant, asked Ma Junren to sign the surgery form.
To make matters worse, the youngest son, Ma Xiaoliang, was also admitted to the hospital with a blood disease.
When Ma Junren arrived home, it was the twenty-fifth day of the Waxing Moon, and after he accompanied his wife to the operation, it was time to prepare for the New Year. However, there are still more than 10 team members in Xuzhou waiting for him to lead the training, and at this time, he feels that he is not close to his wife.
Zhao Shuqing understood her husband's thoughts and said with tears: Old horse, you go, those team members need you more than I do.
Ma Junren choked up and said goodbye to his wife and left the ward with tears in his eyes. The patient said to Zhao Shuqing: Does your husband have an external heart, why is he still going out at this time?
Ma Junren
Zhao Shuqing cried and said: He is a good man, afraid of delaying the future of the team members.
After saying goodbye to his wife, Ma Junren went to another hospital to visit his young son. Ma Xiaoliang said with tears in his eyes: "Daddy, you go."
In the hallway, Ma Junren cried, feeling he owed too much to his wife, son and family.
In 1992, Ma Junren led a team to winter training in Chenggong, Yunnan. Because of the rain, he had a high fever of 40 degrees, a headache, and he bit through his pillows. Colleagues took him to a nearby military hospital, where doctors hospitalized him for three days, and Ma Junren was discharged from the hospital after a drip.
Later, Ma Junren led the team to train in the Qinghai Plateau, and because of lack of oxygen, he went into shock twice.
It can be said that in order to make the team members achieve results, Ma Junren left his family and relatives behind and put life and death aside.
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Ma Junren motivated the players on the training ground
Ma Junren often said to the team members: You are the age of hard work, if you want to achieve good results, you must give up some girls' things, and it is not too late to enjoy them after you have achieved fame.
Ma Junren's dedication and sacrifice were all seen in the eyes of the team members, and their hearts were also very moved.
However, because the intensity of training was too large, causing a large area of injuries; coupled with Ma Junren's rough management style, he trained the team members with his mouth open, resulting in the team members gradually breeding resistance.
Whenever the team members made mistakes in training, Ma Junren scolded them with ugly words, and the team members did not dare to return their mouths, but the dissatisfaction in their hearts became stronger and stronger.
In 1993, Wang Junxia's brother Wang Mingzhan unfortunately died in a car accident, in order not to affect Wang Junxia's preparation for the World Championships in Athletics Stuttgart, Ma Junren, together with Wang Junxia's parents, blocked the news from Wang Junxia.
Ma Junren also concealed Wang Junxia and sent 15,000 yuan to the Parents of the Wang family.
On August 21, 1993, China's Wang Junxia (center) won the gold medal in the women's 10,000 meters at the 4th World Championships in Athletics.
In August 1993, the World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart, Germany, began, with Wang Junxia winning the 10,000-meter championship, Qu Yunxia winning the 3,000-meter championship, and Liu Dong winning the gold medal in the 1,500 meters.
In October of this year, "Ma Jiajun" participated in the Spanish World Marathon, winning the team championship and winning the top 4 women's places.
The world sports world was shocked and exclaimed: the world's long-distance running has entered the "Ma Junren era". At the World Championships in Stuttgart, Ma Jiajun was rewarded with 3 Mercedes-Benz sedans.
After the three vehicles were pulled to the Liaoning training base, Ma Junren was uncontroversially assigned to one. The remaining two cars were not well allocated and were shelved.
On December 12, 1994, Wang Junxia, Liu Dong, Ma Liyan and other main forces of the "Ma Family Army" left a letter to Ma Junren and fled en masse. The reason is that the coaches have a rough coaching style, do not respect the players, and their physical and mental injuries are greatly damaged.
This letter Wang Junxia is the author, Liu Dong, Zhang Linli and other 9 team members have signed. This incident detonated the sports world, which is the sensational "renegade incident". Overnight, the much-anticipated "Ma Jiajun" fell apart.
Ma Junren in a hospital bed after a car accident
Ma Junren was not mentally prepared, shocked by the disciples' actions, and his heart was also broken. He didn't expect that after he had painstakingly brought the team members out, he would end up in such an end!
The roof leaked and received overnight rain. Ma Junren's father, who was more than eighty years old, learned the news, and he was furious and died of a sudden illness.
Ma Junren rushed back to his hometown for funerals, and on the way back he was in a car accident, and his wife took care of him in the hospital. Ma Junren tearfully apologized to his wife: I'm sorry, I have left my family and children to you all these years, and I feel guilty in my heart.
Zhao Shuqing choked and told her husband: You are too tired over the years, the team members do not want you to bring, you do not bring, let's live our own life with peace of mind.
When his two sons came to visit Ma Junren, he apologized sadly, saying that he had not accompanied his son to grow up and was not a competent father. The two sons burst into tears.
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For many years after that, Ma Junren has been reflecting on himself in entanglement and pain. He realized that he did have a rough attitude and caused harm to the players, but his intentions were good and it did change the fate of the players.
Zhao Yu
He thought: If the team members had been dissatisfied and vented out in time, there would be no such unbearable situation. Ma Junren is no longer coaching, but most of the players have retired early.
Wang Junxia also did not have any coach who dared to take over, and after repeated work by the relevant departments of Liaoning Province, Mao Dezhen finally served as Wang Junxia's coach.
But after the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Wang Junxia retired. It is undeniable that this "rebellion incident" changed the fate of Ma Junren and the team members.
In 1998, Ma Junren's state improved and he was assigned to serve as the deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Commission. However, the "rebellion incident" in that year caused another storm.
In 1998, Shanxi writer Zhao Yu published a long-form reportage "Ma Jiajun Investigation" in the magazine "Chinese Writers", which became one of the most sensational works in the history of mainland sports reporting.
Ma Junren was once again pushed to the cusp of public opinion, and many people criticized him, which brought pain to Ma Junren.
Ma Junren and his beloved Tibetan mastiff
It was in the midst of criticism that Ma Junren reached retirement. In 2004, at the age of 60, Ma Junren stepped down from all positions. Looking back on his coaching career, Ma Junren cried.
Although so many years have passed, the pain caused to him by the disciples is still there.
At this time, Ma Junren's family had already moved to Dalian, and both sons had formed their own families. The youngest son, Ma Xiaoliang, works at a bank in the Dalian Development Zone.
Ma Junren was an idle man, and after retiring, he abandoned his wife and son and came to Beijing's Daxing District to raise Tibetan mastiffs.
He built a number of kennels and raised more than 100 Tibetan mastiffs. An adult famous dog raised by Ma Junren will sell for 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, and a juvenile famous dog will also sell for hundreds of thousands of yuan. By raising a famous dog, Ma Junren accumulated a large amount of money.
His breeding dog breeds the female dog, and he charges the owner of the female dog 20,000 yuan at a time.
Ma Junren introduces his dog to his mastiff friend.
Someone broke the news to the media, saying that the price of Tibetan mastiffs in China was fried by Ma Junren, who once sold a Tibetan mastiff to Shanghai for 10 million yuan.
In view of Ma Junren's fame, he was elected president of the Chinese Tibetan Mastiff Association.
In 2013, with the decline of the Tibetan mastiff market, in order to save costs, Ma Junren left Beijing Daxing and returned to Dalian Wafangdian to breed Tibetan mastiffs.
In 2015, the Tibetan mastiff market became more and more sluggish, and tens of thousands of Tibetan mastiff farms across the country closed down, and a Tibetan mastiff could only sell for thousands of yuan. In this case, Ma Junren closed his Tibetan mastiff breeding base.
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At this time, Ma Junren was more than 70 years old and should have been raising his family at home. However, after a busy life, he could not stay idle, and after staying at home for more than a week, Ma Junren would be irritable.
In 2019, Ma Junren is 75 years old, and the Liaoning Middle and Long Distance Running Club intends to hire him as a coach. He asked his wife's opinion: Can I go?
Ma Junren recently took a photo
Ma Junren with his disciple Liu Dong and her husband (September 2008)
Zhao Shuqing knows her husband best, in fact, he has already made up his mind. Zhao Shuqing said: You can go if you want, but you are an old man now, and you can't fight as hard as you did when you were young.
Ma Junren replied to his wife: There is no pressure to be a coach in the club, and the work intensity is less than one-third of what it used to be.
Indeed, the members of the middle and long-distance running club are all running enthusiasts, and Ma Junren has no performance requirements and his work is very easy.
Because of his age, his blood sugar and blood pressure are somewhat high, and every day before going to work, his wife will put the number of pills in his bag and call him at noon to remind him to take medicine.
What made Ma Junren happy was that after the tempering of life, Wang Junxia, Liu Dong and other disciples of that year realized that the departure had brought great harm to Ma Junren.
After Liu Dong married to Spain, he had to visit Ma Junren every time he returned to Liaoning.
Fifteen years after the "rebellion incident", the "Ma Family Army" gathered again
Ma Junren attended Wang Junxia's wedding
In an interview with the TV station, Wang Junxia sincerely said: I want to thank Coach Ma Junren, without him there would be no me today.
When Wang Junxia returned to Liaoning, she would also visit Ma Junren.
As early as 2007, Wang Junxia and Liu Dong and other team members went to visit Ma Junren, and "Ma Jiajun" also took a family portrait.
Many female team members also took their children with them and took pictures together. In the photo, Ma Junren stands in the middle of the team members, smiling happily.
In May 2022, Ma Junren was 78 years old, and the pain in his heart gradually disappeared, and the years of working with the team members became a precious memory.
Ma Junren
Ma Junren has experienced too many ups and downs along the way, and when he was the most difficult and helpless, his wife Zhao Shuqing has always been with him. This virtuous woman, with love and tenderness, encouraged Ma Junren to be strong, face the wind and rain with her husband, and move forward hand in hand.
Ma Junren and Zhao Shuqing are a stormy couple, a couple in distress. To have such a virtuous and caring wife, Ma Junren feels that he is very lucky and content in this life!
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