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Gao And Zhang Jun defended their badminton mixed doubles titles at the Athens Olympics in 2004
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the badminton mixed doubles partners Gao Kun and Zhang Jun, who had been paired for only a year, won the gold medal in the cold without being optimistic about the outside world.
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Gao And Zhang Jun successfully defended their titles. As a result, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun became the first pair of champions in Olympic history to achieve mixed smooth defense.
Gao Kun and Zhang Jun have distinct characteristics and are a seamless match. However, on the road to the gold, the two experienced unknown hardships.
After retiring from the army, Zhang Jun and Gao Lan married and started a family. What is the unknown status of life today?
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Gao Kun was born in 1980 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, where his father Gao Feng and mother Li Chunxiang were engaged in work that had nothing to do with sports.
When Gao Kun was studying at Caidian No. 2 Primary School, the teacher asked each student to choose a favorite sports, and Gao Feng and his wife mistakenly thought that the amount of badminton was small, so they took it upon themselves to report badminton to their daughter.
Li Chunxiang said in an interview with the media: At that time, we did not understand badminton, thinking that the amount of exercise was small, in fact, to play badminton to run the whole game, the amount of exercise was quite large.
It is precisely because of the crooked beating that Gao Lun has been achieved.
Gao Lan is a badminton doubles prodigy who can no longer put it down after picking up the badminton racket. After practicing in school for a while, Gao Kun entered the Wuhan Amateur Sports School to practice badminton.
In 1992, Gao Lan was selected for the Hubei Provincial Badminton Team. Due to his outstanding talent and hard training, Gao Lun stood out in the provincial team.
In the early years, Gao Lan
In 1997, at the age of 17, Gao Was selected for the national badminton team. At the beginning, Gao Kun specialized in women's doubles, paired with Qin Yiyuan.
Badminton is the dominant sport of the mainland, especially women's badminton, as long as it can become the main force of the national team, it is not difficult to win the world championship.
In this way, in the future, the relevant departments can also arrange a job for their daughter. Gao Feng is worried about his daughter's young age and poor self-management skills, and he has to come to Beijing once a month to see her daughter. After accompanying Gao Gan for two days, he returned to Wuhan.
In 1999, the national team paired Gao Kun and Zhang Jun with mixed doubles as needed.
Zhang Jun was born in 1977 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, where his father Zhang Jialuo and mother were ordinary people. Zhang Jun entered the Suzhou Sports School to practice badminton at the age of 9 and was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial Badminton Team in 1991.
Gao Lan and Zhang Jun
In 1996, Zhang Jun was selected for the national team. There are many players in the national badminton team, why did the coaching team let Gao Leng and Zhang Jun be paired? This is mainly due to the outstanding technical characteristics of the two men.
Gao Lun is clear-headed, stable, and skilled in front of the net, and is good at creating offensive opportunities for his players. Zhang Jun attacked fiercely, and the killing force was large, often killing the other party to death, enjoying the reputation of "Zhang Yiban".
Zhang Jun held the clapper in his left hand, and Gao Kun held the clap in his right hand, one left and one right complemented each other perfectly. Soon after the two were paired, they were arranged by the team to participate in the All England Open, and achieved good results.
As a result, the team treated them as seeded players and focused on training.
Gao Kun has excellent psychological qualities, and no matter how fierce the game is on the court, she always smiles. The faint smile on her face gave Zhang Jun a positive psychological hint, but the opponent was a weapon of deterrence.
Gao Lun
After the Spring Festival in 2000, the national team conducted a closed training camp for the Olympic Games. Gao Kun and Zhang Jun had a short pairing time, and there were too many technical links that needed to be improved, and the two often practiced.
It is common for the doubles players to have conflicts, and Gao Kun and Zhang Jun often have friction because of their disagreements. Sometimes she counted Zhang Jun in front of her teammates, and the two quarreled. When the quarrel is more fierce, it is often Zhang Jun who takes the initiative to turn off the fire.
He felt that he was a man, and he was 3 years older than Gao Lun, and he should be generous. When Gao Kun was still angry, Zhang Jun would take the initiative to show her kindness.
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In September 2000, the Sydney Olympics kicked off. Gao Lan and Zhang Jungang have been paired for more than a year, and they have not achieved any eye-catching results in the world, and their opponents do not pay attention to them. This just brought opportunities to Gao Lan and Zhang Jun.
They studied their opponents very thoroughly, but their opponents did not know much about their technical characteristics. As a result, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun eliminated a number of world famous players one after another and reached the final all the way.
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On September 21, the Sydney Olympic Badminton Mixed Doubles Final began. Many team members because of the pressure, as soon as they live in the Olympic Village, they begin to lose sleep. Gao Gan, on the other hand, had a large nerve and slept soundly.
At noon on the day of the final, Gao Kun was still asleep in the room. Zhang Jun and the coach sat in the shuttle bus waiting for her. Seeing that Gao Lun was slow to come out, the coach was anxious, and Zhang Jun quickly got out of the car to call Gao Leng.
He "banged" on the door outside, and Gao Lun got up, and as a result, they almost missed the shuttle bus to the arena. Gao Lan's calm psychological quality has amazed many coaches and players.
Gao Kun and Zhang Jun's final opponents were Indonesia's Tricus and Xu Yimin. As soon as the tournament began, the competition between the two sides was white-hot. In the first set, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun accelerated the pace of attack, who knew that this was the other side's routine.
Gao Kun and Zhang Jun lost the first set 1-15.
From the second set, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun changed their tactics and pushed the ball to the opponent's bottom line again and again. Taking advantage of the other party's lack of return to the ball, Zhang Jun jumped up again and again to slam and scored frequently.
Gao Kun and Zhang Jun won the 2000 Sydney Olympics badminton mixed doubles championship
When the two sides fought 13-13, Gao Kun was always smiling. This self-confidence of hers has broken the morale of the other party. As a result, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun scored two consecutive points to win a set 15-13.
In the third set of the decisive victory, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun were full of momentum, cutting their opponents under the horse 15-11 and struggling to win the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal.
After the Sydney Olympics, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun became the targets of opponents from all over the world, and the opponents focused on the two. Gao And Zhang jun are also studying opponents around the world.
The two listed the characteristics of their opponents and pasted them on the walls of the training hall. Every day they train them to target each opponent.
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Gao Kun and Zhang Jun defended their mixed doubles champions at the Athens Olympics
Zhang Jun is overweight, and in order to reduce his weight, he fights with his weight every day. Every time he went to the canteen to eat, the coach stipulated that Zhang Jun could not eat many dishes, and he looked straight in the eyes.
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Gao Kun and Zhang Jun once again reached the mixed doubles final. In the pinnacle showdown with Britain's Robson and Ames, Gao And Zhang jun defeated their opponents 2-1 to win the mixed doubles gold medal again.
Gao Kun and Zhang Jun thus became the first pair of champions in Olympic history to achieve mixed doubles defense.
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Behind Gao Lan's gold medal, in addition to condensing the coach's hard work, there is also the credit of his parents. As early as 1999, Gao's father, Gao Gao, gave up his job and devoted himself to raising his daughter.
In 2003, Gao Gao left Wuhan to stay in Beijing. At that time, he did not have a house, lived in the basement of a relative's house, and cooked for Gao Kun during the holidays.
Gao Kun's father, Gao Feng
Before the Athens Olympics, in order to better prepare her daughter for the war, Gao Feng rented a house in the south building of the Temple of Heaven Apartment near the State General Administration of Sports.
Gao Kun's mother, Li Chunxiang, also came over, and the couple formed a "guard duo". Gao Lun likes to eat Wuhan's peeling fish and lotus belt, and Gao Gao will return to Wuhan every once in a while, and then bring it back to Beijing in large bags.
Every two days, Gao Feng also went to the market to purchase pork, worried that it contained clenbuterol, and Gao Feng bought pork designated by the Training Bureau of the State General Administration of Sports.
Every morning, Gao Feng and his wife washed and cut the dishes early, and the stir-fried and stewed dishes were packed separately. As soon as they received the call from their daughter that their training was over, they began to stir-fry. After 10 minutes, Gao Ran arrived home, and his parents had already put the dishes on the table.
Since Gao Ran entered the national team in 1997, Gao Gao and his wife have only spent one Spring Festival in Wuhan, and the rest have accompanied their daughters in Beijing for the Spring Festival.
Gao Lun and Yellow Spike
In addition to partnering with Zhang Jun in mixed doubles, Gao Kun also has to participate in women's doubles competitions. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Gao Leng and Qin Yiyuan won the bronze medal in women's doubles.
Since 2001, Gao Has partnered with Huang Sui to win the women's doubles silver medal at the Athens Olympic Games.
She and Huang Sui also won the Women's Doubles Title at the World Championships three times.
At the end of 2006, badminton was adjusted to a 21-point system, and according to the needs of the team, Gao Leng and Zhang Jun were dismantled.
Since then, Gao Kun and Zheng Bo have partnered in mixed doubles. Zhang Jun then retired as an assistant coach in women's doubles.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Gao Kun and Zheng Bo were unfavorable and did not enter the round of 16. After the Olympic Games, Gao Gan officially retired from the army and was assigned to work in the political office of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, becoming a civilian female policewoman.
Gao Lan and Chen Hong
Gao Ran had an unforgettable failed relationship, and her ex-boyfriend was teammate Chen Hong. Chen Hong was born in 1979 in Longyan, Fujian Province, 1 year older than Gao Kun.
Chen Hong is 1.82 meters tall, tall and handsome. He began playing badminton at the age of 9, joined the Fujian Provincial Sports Team in 1991, and was selected for the national team in 1997.
Chen Hong's technical movement specifications are typical technical players. Li Yongbo commented: Every action of Chen Hong can be written into a textbook.
Unfortunately, Chen Hong did not win any dazzling singles titles, and won the fifth place at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
In 2003, Gao Kun and Chen Hong officially fell in love, and after the Athens Olympic Games, the news that the two were about to get married was once reported. But Gao's parents were dissatisfied with Chen Hong, feeling that his athletic performance was difficult to match that of his daughter.
Chen Hong
In 2006, Chen Hong's sports career fell into a low ebb, and the gap between the two deepened. In the end, Gao Lun and Chen Hong broke up.
In 2007, Chen Hong retired from the national team and later served as the vice chairman of the Fujian Badminton Association, and was also the deputy head coach of the Fujian badminton team and the head coach of the women's team. Now Chen Hong has long been married and has a family and has his own children.
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After breaking up with Chen Hong, Gao Lun collided with love. Her boyfriend, Wu Sheng, is also from Wuhan and is the boss of The Fashion Styling Company in Beijing.
Dongtian styling is very famous in the industry, for Huang Xiaoming, Xu Qing, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao and many other stars have designed the shape, insiders call Wu Sheng as the "fashion king".
Gao Kun and Wu Sheng's wedding
Born in 1978, two years older than Gao Kun, Wu Sheng graduated from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and went to Beijing to start a business after graduating from university.
Gao Leng and Wu Sheng met at an event organized by a fashion magazine. When they first met, Gao Ran had no feelings for Wu Sheng, but Wu Sheng fell in love with Gao Sheng at first sight and immediately began to pursue.
5 months later, Gao Lun fell in love with Wu Sheng. In 2007, when Wu Sheng proposed to Gao Kun, he wrote a long article of more than 2,000 words describing his love for Gao Kun and his future life plan. Gao Kun was touched and agreed to his marriage proposal.
Because Gao Kun was going to participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the two decided to postpone the wedding.
On May 2, 2009, Gao Kun and Wu Sheng held a grand wedding in Beijing. When the popular xiaosheng Ma Tianyu was the best man, Deng Chao, Li Bingbing, Huang Shengyi and other stars sent blessings.
Gao Kun and his daughter
On October 7, 2010, Gao Kun gave birth to his daughter in Beijing. After taking maternity leave, Gao Kun entrusted her daughter to the care of her parents and returned to the workplace on her own.
Although he works at the Public Security Bureau, Gao Kun is concerned about badminton. A few years later, Gao Kun gave birth to a son and became a happy mother with both children and daughters.
In 2017, Gao Left the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau and transferred to Beijing Sport University to teach.
Gao's daughter is learning golf, and every weekend she has to drive her daughter to learn golf.
In 2020, the national badminton team held a women's doubles training camp and hired Gao Lan as a coach. Every week, Gao Ran would go over to give the girls a 90-minute tactical lesson.
Gao Lun
In 2021, when the national badminton team is preparing for the Tokyo Olympic Games, Gao Kun is also asked to be a staff officer for the team members. Gao Leng passed on his experience to the team members without reservation.
He has won 14 world championships in his career and has been named the most successful athlete in the history of Olympic badminton by the BWF.
Gao Lan's sports career is very complete, and now her married life is also very happy, which can be called a successful and happy woman.
So, what is Zhang Jun's life situation after retiring from the army?
In 2008, Zhang Jun served as the head coach of the men's doubles division of the national badminton team. As early as November 10, 2006, Zhang Jun got married, and his wife's name was Hu Ni.
Zhang Jun and Hu Ni
Hu Ni was born in Shanxi in 1981, 4 years younger than Zhang Jun. Hu Ni, who is 1.70 meters tall, was originally a national synchronized swimmer and was selected for the national team in 2000. She won the individual title at the 6th Asian Swimming Championships.
In 2003, Hu Ni participated in the 10th Swimming World Championships Synchronized Swimming Competition, winning the 5th place in the collective free choice group. Zhang Jun and Hu Ni met since 1997, when Hu Ni's Shanxi Synchronized Swimming Team was disbanded and she came to the Jiangsu Provincial Synchronized Swimming Team.
It was 1994, and Huny was not yet 14 years old. Originally, Zhang Jun trained in the national badminton team, and in order to prepare for the 8th National Games, he returned to the provincial team to train.
Coincidentally, Zhang Jun and Hu Ni live in the same dormitory building, and the first time they saw Hu Ni, Zhang Jun fell in love with her.
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At that time, because Hu Ni was too young, Zhang Jun did not dare to confess. In 1997, Zhang Jun turned 20 years old, and Hu Ni was almost 17 years old, and he began to pursue Hu Ni.
Hunni
Once Hu Ni had a cold, Zhang Jun bought her a box of medicines, hu Ni was touched and accepted Zhang Jun's feelings.
Teammates all laughed at Zhang Jun, it was he a box of cold medicine set a beauty.
After Hu Ni joined the national synchronized swimming team, Zhang Jun and his girlfriend were in Beijing. But in order not to affect each other's athletic performance, they rarely see each other.
Occasionally the two go on a date, and they separate just after eating a meal.
Hu Ni once gave Zhang Jun a silver ring, which Zhang Jun always wore on his hand. In two competitions, Zhang Jun won a silver medal, and Hu Ni said: Take off the silver ring and replace it with the gold ring your mother gave you.
On Zhang Jun's 20th birthday, his mother gave him a gold ring, so he replaced the silver ring sent by his girlfriend with his mother's gold ring.
Gao Kun attended zhang jun and Hu Ni's wedding
Hu Ni said: If you wear a gold ring, you will definitely take gold. As a result, Zhang Jun paired up with Gao Lan and won two consecutive mixed doubles gold medals in Sydney and Athens.
On October 10, 2006, Zhang Jun and Hu Ni held a wedding ceremony in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Li Yongbo, who was the head coach of the national badminton team at the time, was the witness of the marriage, and the main marriage was Hua Hongxing, the president of the Nanjing Sports Academy.
Swimming Olympic champion Luo Xuejuan served as the bridesmaid, Li Yongbo's son Li Gen served as the best man, and Lin Dan, Bao Chunlai, Zhang Ning, Gao Kun, Xie Xingfang and other famous badminton players all attended.
The reason why Zhang Jun chose the wedding on November 10 was because the next day the National Badminton Championships opened in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, and the team members regarded Zhang Jun's wedding as a pre-match party.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Jun with their son
In 2009, Zhang Junxi became a father, and his wife gave birth to his son Niu Niu for him. After marriage, Huni was very supportive of her husband's work.
Originally, men's doubles was a weak sport for the national team, but under the guidance of Zhang Jun, Zhang Nan and Fu Haifeng won the men's doubles gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In 2017, Zhang Jun was adjusted to the head coach of the women's doubles team of the national badminton team. In 2019, Zhang Jun was promoted to the chairman of the Chinese Badminton Team Association.
Because the work is complicated and there is no time for fitness, Zhang Jun, who is middle-aged, has gained weight, and the athlete is sentenced to two people. His wife reminded Zhang Jun to pay attention to his body, and he began to take time to exercise.
Gao Lun family portrait
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, Zhang Jun served as the leader of the badminton team, and the national badminton team won two gold medals and four silver medals. Now that the national team is in a trough period, I believe that with the efforts of Zhang Jun and the coaches, it will hit the glory hard.
After Gao Lan and Zhang Jun retired from the military, they both started their own families and gave birth to babies, and the two began a new round of struggle in their new posts. Although he has been retired for many years, Zhang Jun and Gao Kun are still friends, often communicating in WeChat, and sometimes the two families will meet and reunite.
This friendship is pure and beautiful, and will accompany them forever!
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