The Chinese team at the Seoul Olympics won only five gold medals, the worst result in the history. The five gold medalists are gymnastics Lou Yun, table tennis Chen Jing, Chen Longcan/Wei Qingguang, diving Xu Yanmei and Gao Min. So what are these six gold medalists doing after they retire? Let's talk.
Lou Yun
01: Lou Yun married a flight attendant and turned to the commercial sea
Lou Yun won the vault gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and won the vault gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Because Li Ning and Xu Haifeng and others lost, Lou Yun was the first athlete on the mainland to win gold medals in two consecutive Olympic Games.
Lou Yun is known as the "Prince of Vaulting Horses", and there are two difficult moves in the history of world gymnastics named after him.
They are "forehand flip body front flip body 540 degrees" named "Lou Yun Jump 1". "Forehand flip straight body front flip body 540 degrees" was named "Lou Yun Jump 2".
In 1992, he met a beautiful stewardess of China Eastern Airlines on the plane and fell in love with her. The two were married soon after their relationship, and for more than twenty years, the couple respected each other as guests and lived happily married.
Lou Yun
After Lou Yun retired from the military, business was not smooth sailing. I also lost a lot of money when I first started doing sporting goods. Lou Yun set up a real estate company, seized the "golden decade" of the rapid development of China's real estate, and made a lot of money.
The current Lou Yun is the "President of Beijing Lou Yun Real Estate Co., Ltd." Lou Yun is the champion on the field and the champion in the business sea.
Chen Jing
02: Chen Jing married Xu Li, the former chairman of the Volleyball Association
Chen Jing won the women's table tennis singles title at the Seoul Olympics, China's first women's table tennis Olympic gold medal.
In 1991, Chen Jing retired from the national team and went to Taiwan and represented Taiwan Province in international competitions. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Chen Jing won the women's table tennis singles runner-up for Taiwan Province, and she lost to Deng Yaping.
Xu Li
In 2000, he officially returned to the mainland after finishing his athlete career and studied for a doctorate in psychology at South China Normal University. After graduation, he stayed in school to teach table tennis. He was named associate professor in 2007 and professor in 2012.
After being introduced by a friend, she met Xu Li, former director of the Training Bureau of the General Administration of Sports, chairman of the Volleyball Association, director of the Volleyball Management Center and deputy secretary of the Party Committee, and the two became married after a relationship.
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03: Gao Min's second marriage
Gao Min won the women's springboard diving championship at the Seoul Olympic Games, and since then the reputation of "diving queen" has spread.
After Gao Min retired from the army, he married Su Dong, a translator of the State Sports Commission, and gave birth to a son. The two went abroad together to develop in Canada. Later, the two divorced, and the son followed Gao Min.
Gao Min's second husband, Chen Zhigang, a professor at the University of Edmonton, has been married for 24 years and the two also have a son.
Chen Zhigang treats Gao Min and Su Dong's son as his own, and is a very competent and perfect father.
Xu Yanmei
04: Xu Yanmei marries a civil servant
Heo Won the Women's 10m Platform Diving Championship at the Seoul Olympics and was forced to retire in 1991 due to severe retinal damage. After retiring from the army, he went to Hainan to study.
Xu Yanmei married relatively early, and she had a child at the age of 24. She now settles in Haikou, where her husband is a civil servant and serves in the Sanya Municipal Party Committee.
Chen Longcan
05: Chen Longcan
Chen Longcan defeated Jiang Jialiang in the Table Tennis World Cup to win the men's singles title. He also defeated Waldner in the final of the men's team at the World Table Tennis Championships to help the Chinese team win the cup. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he partnered Wei Qingguang to win the table tennis men's doubles title.
After retiring from retirement, he went to Japan with his wife to play, and returned to his hometown of Chengdu ten years later. He is a native of Xindu and is a fellow countryman with the famous writer Mr. Ai Wu. Since then, Chen Longcan has been rooted in Sichuan and contributed to the cause of table tennis in his hometown.
Chen Longcan was once hired as an associate professor at Xihua University, where he taught table tennis techniques.
As the head coach of table tennis in Sichuan Province, he has cultivated high-level athletes such as Zhu Yuling. Now Chen Longcan is the vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Table Tennis Association.
Wei Qingguang
06:韦晴光入日本籍改日本名名
Wei Qingguang was born in 1962 in Nanning, Guangxi Province, and the highest honor of his career was to win the Men's Doubles Championship at the Seoul Olympic Games. This is the first gold medal won by the Chinese table tennis team at the Olympic Games.
After the 1990 Asian Games, Wei Qingguang retired and played for a Japanese club in 1991. In 1997, due to the pressure of life, he became a Japanese citizen and changed his name to Wei Guan Qingguang and began to play for the Japanese team.
In 2004, Harumitsu Weiguan retired as the coach of the Japanese table tennis national team, and he became the godfather of Japanese table tennis. He has trained famous players such as Tomokazu Jangmoto and Miyu Hirano. Now Japanese table tennis has made great progress, which is related to Wei Guan Qingguang.
Wei Guanqingguang was the messenger of Sino-Japanese exchanges, and he brought China's advanced table tennis technology to Japan. He said: "I still miss my hometown and hope to give advice to table tennis in my hometown." ”
Wei Guan Qingguang is now out of the Japanese coaching staff. He and his wife founded the "Weiguan Billiard Club", with his wife Shi Xiaojuan as the chairman.
Conclusion: Since the Chinese team only won 5 gold medals at the Seoul Olympic Games, it is particularly precious, and several gold medal athletes are also well known.
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