As we all know, the mainland's table tennis project can be said to be the only one in the world, and the name Zhang Yining must be familiar to everyone, the first double circle Grand Slam player of national table tennis, because he could not find an opponent, so he chose to retire at his peak. But there is such a person, who has defeated the great demon King Zhang Yining many times, but was expelled from the national team because she lost in the Asian Championship, she is Niu Jianfeng, and many people may not know this name when mentioning it.
Niu Jianfeng was born in Baoding, Hebei Province in 1981, and at first her parents enrolled her in gymnastics classes, but the coach thought that Niu Jianfeng was too tall to practice gymnastics, so he recommended her to the table tennis coach. At the age of 12, he entered the provincial team, and after 4 years of training in the provincial team, Niu Jianfeng successfully won the championship at the Asian Junior Championship and was successfully selected for the national team. In the 2001 Universiade, she partnered with Zhang Yining to win the championship with the Women's Doubles South Korean combination, and two years later in the International Table Tennis Federation Tour, the women's singles narrowly defeated Zhang Yining to win the championship, the women's doubles partner Guo Yue defeated Wang Nan, Zhang Yining won the championship again, and then she cooperated with Guo Yue to win countless world championships women's doubles championships, it can be said that this is Niu Jianfeng's career peak, and these achievements made her stand second only to Wang Nan and Zhang Yining in the position of the no. 3 main force of national table tennis.
But in the Athens Olympic Games, Niu Jianfeng unexpectedly lost to the North Korean athletes, regrettably stopped in the round of 16, after the game she said: "The Olympic Games are indeed different from other events, as soon as you enter the venue, you feel that your legs and feet are weak, you can't breathe, people are a bit confused", fortunately, after the women's doubles competition, she and Guo Yue won a bronze medal, but this still made her self-confidence hit hard.
In 2005, in order to encourage Niu Jianfeng, the national table tennis coaching team chose to let her lead the team to the Asian Championships, but before the game Niu Jianfeng was injured, he had not played for 10 days, the game was closed, because of the pressure, want to win and fear of losing, resulting in Niu Jianfeng singles to stop the semifinals, the group lost two points, burying the opportunity for the women's team to enter the final, while participating in the singles Liu Shiwen lost to Fukuhara Ai, Li Xiaoxia lost to South Korea's Jin Jing'e, as well as Guo Yue, Guo Yan did not reach the top 4, such a dismal record It also made the leaders of the national table tennis very angry, so they expelled Niu Jianfeng from the national team on the grounds of "weak leadership".
A year later, she returned to the national team, but due to injuries and other reasons, her state was not as good as before, so she only ranked tenth in the team competition, but she still defeated Zhang Yining 3-1 in the Table Tennis Super League in the same year. After retiring from the military, Niu Jianfeng returned to Beijing Sport University to study, and stayed in the table tennis teaching and research department to teach, and in 2008, he married Liu Zhiqiang, who is also a table tennis player, and by the way, Liu Zhiqiang is now the third in the world Liang Jingkun's head coach.
After 5 years of teaching, at present Niu Jianfeng has become an associate professor of Beijing Sport University, and a very cute daughter, a family of three is very happy, from the world champion to the university teacher, looking back at Niu Jianfeng's sports career, there are indeed many unsatisfactory, but after experiencing the trough, can adjust themselves well, find a new direction in life, is also very good, what do you think about this, you can communicate with you in the comment area.