In the men's long jump final of the 2022 Oregon Athletics World Championships, China's Wang Jianan jumped 8 meters 36 meters in the sixth test jump and won the gold medal! At the same time, he also set 3 major records, comparable to Liu Xiang.
First, he became the first world champion in men's athletics in Chinese athletics. Second, he became China's third men's champion at the World Championships in Athletics after Liu Xiang and Wang Hao. Fourth, he helped China win its first gold medal at the 2022 Oregon Athletics World Championships!
Chinese Athletics has struggled for this moment for a hundred years. According to the records, before the founding of New China, there was a long jump event at the National Games at that time, and Hao Chunde's 6 meters 91 created in 1933 was the best result, and Japan's record was 7 meters 98.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first athlete to skip the 8-meter mark was named Liu Yuhuang, who twice jumped 8 meters 11 and 8 meters 14 in 1981 and 1982 to rewrite the Asian record. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Liu Yuhuang finished 5th.
The second Chinese long jumper to break the 8-meter mark is Chen Zunrong. From 1986 to 1992, he jumped 8 meters 23, 8 meters 26, 8 meters 36, broke the Asian long jump record three times, and at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, Chen Zunrong became the first Chinese male long jumper to win a gold medal at the Asian Games.
After that, Huang Geng jumped 8 meters 38 meters in 1995, and Lao Jianfeng jumped 8 meters 40 in 1997. Huang Geng reached the quarter-finals at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, and then in 1999, Huang Geng's younger brother Huang Le finished 6th at the Serbian World Championships.
However, after the new millennium, Chinese long jumpers can not jump into the 8 meters 30 mark. Until 2013, when the situation improved, Li Jinzhe won the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai with a score of 8.34 meters, becoming the first Chinese long jumper in history to win the league's sub-station; In that year, Li Jinzhe also won the long jump special competition in Bad Langensarza, Germany with a score of 8 meters 47, and broke the national record of 8 meters 40 created by Lao Jianfeng in 1997, and in the same year, Li Jinzhe won the men's long jump championship of the IAAF Diamond League Monaco, becoming the first Chinese long jumper to win the Diamond League race abroad.
After Wang Jianan's debut, there was also a teenager named Shi Yuhao, in 2016, 17-year-old Shi Yuhao jumped out of 8 meters 30. In the 2018 Diamond League Shanghai, Shi Yuhao finished second in the men's long jump with 8.43 meters, which is second only to the record set by Lee Jinzhe in 2013. But then Shi Yuhao changed his career to sprinting, first winning the silver medal in the men's 4x100m relay race in athletics at the 2021 National Games. Not long ago, he finished third in the Athletics Race in Biele, Switzerland, with a time of 10.15 seconds.
In today's competition, after Wang Jianan's third jump of 8 meters 03, I was still thinking, if Shi Yuhao insisted on jumping, what would happen? As a result, he jumped to his personal season best of 8.36 meters, which was 33 centimeters higher than the previous best of 8.03 meters!