Upstream journalist Tang Hao
On the morning of July 17, Beijing time, in the men's long jump final of the 2022 Athletics World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, usa, China's Wang Jianan broke out in the last jump, jumped 8 meters 36, and won the gold medal for the Chinese delegation, which was the first gold of the Chinese delegation's world championships, not only the first time that Chinese male athletes won the gold medal in the world championships, but also the first men's athletics world championship in the history of Chinese athletics. After the game, Wang Jiannan has been holding up his index finger, and this northeastern boy who "dreamed three times that he won the World Championship" finally realized his dream at this moment.
This is not only the first gold medal of the Chinese athletics team at this World Championships, but also the first World Championships champion in the history of China's long jump, and the first World Championship gold medal in the history of the Asian men's long jump, and Wang Jianan and Su Bingtian, who created history before, are both disciples of the famous foreign teacher Randy Huntington.
Wang Jiannan, who is about to celebrate his 26th birthday next month, is 1.80 meters tall and is one of the leading figures in China's men's long jump event in the past decade.
Born on August 27, 1996 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, this talented long jump teenager was an authentic northeastern boy, but Wang Jiannan was not a long jumper at first, but a decathlete athlete, and his best sport at that time was pole vaulting.
At the age of 14, Wang Jiannan entered the Xuzhou athletics team with unusual talent, and then in just two years, he was selected by the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Team and began a more rigorous training journey.
In February 2012, Wang Jiannan represented Jiangsu Province in the national indoor men's decathlon competition, and at the age of 16, he scored 7,063 points in the decathlon, the second best result among the world's young athletes in 2012. In addition to his personal best in the long jump of 7.80 meters, he ran 10.88 seconds in the 100 meters, broke through 5 meters in pole vaulting, and jumped 1.94 meters in high jump. It is no exaggeration to call him a "decathlon genius."
At the age of 16 and 26 days, Wang Jianan jumped 8 meters for the first time and won the national long jump championship with a score of 8.04 meters, which shocked the Chinese athletics scene, which also made him focus on the long jump in early 2013, and a talented long jump teenager was born.
In July 2013, at the Asian Championships held in Pune, India, in the absence of Li Jinzhe, the "first brother" of the long jump in China, 17-year-old Wang Jiannan won the long jump championship with a score of 7 meters 95, and he qualified for the Moscow World Championships without even participating in the World Youth Championships.
Regarding the transfer, Wang Jianan said: "Changing to long jump is the love of athletics. I am an athlete from the decathlon, I have a love for all athletics, and I always have a kind of confidence: I feel that no matter what I practice, it is not a problem, I am not an ordinary person, I can do it. ”
On May 21, 2014, in the men's long jump final of the IAAF World Athletics Challenge in Beijing, Wang Jianan jumped 8.09 meters to win the men's long jump championship.
On May 17, 2015, in the long jump competition of the IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai, Wang Jianan jumped 8.25 to win the bronze medal. On August 25 of the same year, at the 2015 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Beijing, Wang Jiannan, who played at home, won the bronze medal in the men's long jump with a time of 8 meters 18 meters, which was also the first world championship long jump medal in the history of Asian athletics.
Wang Jiannan, who made history, has since represented the Chinese team in various international competitions, and in the men's long jump final at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Wang Jiannan finished fifth with a score of 8.17 meters.
At the 2018 National Athletics Championships and Asian Games Selection Competition, Wang Jianan jumped 8.47 meters, which not only equaled the national record for the men's long jump held by Li Jinzhe, but also Wang Jiannan's personal best. In the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games Men's Track and Field Men's Long Jump Final, Wang Jianan won the gold medal with a record-breaking Asian Games score of 8 meters 24.
In 2019, in the men's long jump final of the athletics event of the 7th World Military Games held in Wuhan, Wang Jianan once again lived up to expectations by jumping 8 meters 15 and successfully won the championship.
In the men's long jump competition of the 2020 National Athletics Championships, Wang Jianan defeated the fierce rival Huang Changzhou and won the championship with 8 meters 36 in the second jump.
However, at the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021, Wang Jiannan played abnormally in the men's long jump preliminaries, jumping only 7.81 meters and was eventually eliminated. On September 22, 2021, he won the gold medal in the men's long jump at the 14th National Games. On October 21, Wang Jianan announced the good news on social platforms and registered his marriage with his girlfriend who has been in love for 10 years.
After winning the World Championship this year, Wang Jiannan also excitedly hugged his foreign teacher Randy Huntington, and after raising the national flag, he couldn't help but cry.
Chinese sports fans will be familiar with Randy Huntington, the legend who has guided the triple jump legend Willy Banks and the long jump world record holder Mike Powell, since 2013 as a foreign coach for the national long jump team, not only trained Wang Jiannan, Happy Dragon and national record holder Li Jinzhe, but also helped Su Bingtian greatly improve his starting skills, and now Su Bingtian has run 10 seconds 8 times and 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympic Games, all of which are credited to Randy.
"Randy's confidence in me when he's next to me is the most helpful. Because all my techniques were taught by him, the running aid, the aerial techniques, the take-off techniques were all taught by him. Wang Jianan said.
Engaged in athletics for many years, Wang Jiannan is one of the fans of flying man Liu Xiang, he said: "The most attractive thing about Brother Xiang is the temperament on the field, I think he is a god-like figure, and when I meet him, it really feels like a dream." ”
Today, Wang Jiannan has become the third men's track and field champion after Liu Xiang in the 110-meter hurdles in 2007 and Wang Hao in the 2009 20-kilometer race walk, which also makes him look at his idol.
Source: Upstream News