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Cao Yanhua
In the 1980s, Cao Yanhua was a generation of "ping-pong empresses", whose influence was no less than that of deng Yaping and Zhang Yining.
At that time, in the absence of the Olympic Games and the World Cup, Cao Yanhua won seven world championships, including two women's singles gold medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.
After retiring from the army, Cao Yanhua re-started his business and founded the Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School, which sent Xu Xin and other world champions to the national table tennis team.
Cao Yanhua had a failed marriage, and her ex-husband Shi Zhihao was the main force of the national table tennis men's team and the world champion.
Young Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao
The two married in May 1986 and have a son, Szesi. In 1999, the two divorced due to personality discord, gathering less and leaving more, and the son lived with Cao Yanhua.
During the coaching of the national table tennis women's team, Shi Zhihao remarried with Li Nan, a 23-year-old player who was younger than himself, and became a father again.
Cao Yanhua also harvested a belated love, emotional nourishment, she became more and more beautiful in middle age...
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Cao Yanhua is a ping-pong prodigy and the first person to play in a woman's technical masculine style. In the 1980s, Cao Yanhua was the leading figure in Chinese women's table tennis.
Let's go back in time to the excitement of the 36th World Table Tennis Championships.
Cao Yanhua
In April 1981, the 36th World Table Tennis Championships kicked off in Yugoslavia. As the "first sister of national table tennis", Cao Yanhua made 20 appearances in the team competition, winning all of them.
In the women's doubles final, she and Zhang Deying won the championship. In the women's singles final with teammate Tong Ling, Cao Yanhua was asked by the team to concede the ball, and as a result, she deliberately lost to Tong Ling and won the silver medal. After the game, Cao Yanhua, who has always been strong, could not help but shed tears of grievance and heartache.
In March 1985, the 38th World Table Tennis Championships was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Cao Yanhua defeated teammate Geng Lijuan in the women's singles final to win the gold medal.
In the mixed doubles final, Cao Yanhua teamed up with Cai Zhenhua to win the championship by defeating Czechoslovakia's Panski and Hlakhova.
Cao Yanhua on the pitch
In his sports career, Cao Yanhua has won a total of 56 championships in major competitions at home and abroad. In 1983 and 1985, she was twice named one of the top ten athletes in the country.
Unfortunately, at that time, table tennis had not yet been included in the Olympic Games, and the Table Tennis World Cup had not yet been established, otherwise Cao Yanhua's sports career would have been more brilliant.
Many fans say that Cao Yanhua is not in time, and Cao Yanhua is also sorry.
How did Cao Yanhua embark on the road of table tennis? Why did she and Shi Zhihao divorce? What is the current state of her life? After reading the introduction of "Tasting Celebrities", you can find out from it...
Cao Yanhua was born in December 1962 in Happy Village, Hongkou District, Shanghai, to ordinary workers to ordinary parents. She has 1 sister above her.
Early years of Cao Yanhua
Cao Yanhua's sister practiced table tennis since she was a child, and she followed her sister to pick up the ball at the age of 3. My sister's talent for table tennis was average, and she gave up later.
Her father discovered that Cao Yanhua was talented in sports and sent her to the Children's Palace to practice table tennis.
In 1975, at the age of 13, Cao Yanhua competed in the Shanghai Table Tennis Championships. It was an adult competition, and as a result, Cao Yanhua defeated Shanghai women's table tennis champion Gu Zhijuan 3-1 to win the adult competition.
Subsequently, Cao Yanhua was selected for the Shanghai Table Tennis Team.
Due to his age, Cao Yanhua did not have the official establishment of athletes, and he had to bear some expenses himself. His parents were frugal and often used to send money to Cao Yanhua.
Li Furong (center) and Xu Yinsheng (right)
One day in 1977, Yu Changchun, the head coach of the Shanghai table tennis team, called Cao Yanhua to the office. Seeing two table tennis seniors who were usually only seen on TV in the room - Li Furong and Xu Yinsheng, Cao Yanhua was very nervous.
Li Furong asked Cao Yanhua: Do you want to win the world championship? Cao Yanhua bravely raised his head, and there was a bright light in his eyes: I think.
A month later, Cao Yanhua received a notice from the national table tennis team to go to the former Soviet Union to participate in the Scandinavian table tennis competition. People around me thought it incredible: a 15-year-old child, who had not even entered the national team, could participate in the World Series!
Soon, Cao Yanhua was transferred to the national table tennis team for training. A month later, she raced with the team to the former Soviet Union.
Cao Yanhua won the championship moment
At that time, in addition to the World Table Tennis Championships, the Scandinavian Competition was the most important competition in the world table tennis world, and Cao Yanhua won the championship in one fell swoop. Subsequently, she officially stayed in the national table tennis team. At that time, the media called Cao Yanhua a "ping-pong genius" and a "ping-pong wizard".
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In 1978, 16-year-old Cao Yanhua participated in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in team and singles competitions, he twice defeated world singles champion and North Korea's Park Young-soon, shocking the world table tennis world.
Because the honor came too quickly, Cao Yanhua couldn't help but feel a little fluttery, and pride grew in his heart. In the following two years, Cao Yanhua did not make a breakthrough in technology, losing in the game many times.
At the 1979 National Games, Cao Yanhua did not win the singles championship, and all sides began to question her ability.
The national table tennis team was ready to return her to the Shanghai team, but Xu Yinsheng, who was the deputy director of the National Sports Commission at the time, said: Xiao Cao is only 17 years old, and the road ahead is still very long, so we need to be more patient with her. So Cao Yanhua continued to stay in the national table tennis team.
Soon, the famous coach Zhou Lansun came to the national table tennis women's team to coach, in charge of Cao Yanhua, Zhang Deying and Qi Baoxiang.
Born in Hangzhou in 1939, Zhou Lansun was a member of the men's team championship at the 28th World Table Tennis Championships. He holds the board straight in his right hand, pushes left and right, and is known as the "heavy gunner".
Zhou Lansun did not receive formal training in table tennis since childhood, and came to Taiyuan Chemical Factory from Hangzhou at the age of 15 to work as a chemical analyst. Every day, he tucks a ping-pong racket around his waist and practices with people whenever he has time.
In 1956, Zhou Lansun entered the Shanxi Provincial Table Tennis Team and was selected for the national team in 1957.
In 1973, Zhou Lansun retired and stayed in the national table tennis team to coach.
Cao Yanhua (right) with teammate Zhang Deying
At that time, Zhou Lansun was experimenting with the masculinization of women's technology and chose Cao Yanhua as the test subject.
First of all, Zhou Lansun let Cao Yanhua's racket change the rubber, and the serve was not allowed to attack another board, and all the arc circles must be pulled; The whole station is not allowed to use the backhand, and must attack with the forehand arc ball in the run.
The physical strength and explosiveness of the female athletes are a serious challenge, and Cao Yanhua's soles of her feet are covered with bubbles, blurred flesh and blood, and pain drills into the heart.
When the team doctor measured her blood pressure and pulse, her heart beat too fast to detect it. When the menstrual holiday came, Cao Yanhua's stomach hurt, and she ate painkiller tablets, which developed from 1 tablet to 4 tablets.
Several times Cao Yanhua collapsed after practicing, fainted on the ground, and when she woke up, the coach asked her to continue practicing. In a team game, Cao Yanhua's right elbow accidentally hit the corner of the stage, and the blood flowed like blood.
Cao Yanhua
After the team doctor briefly treated her wounds, Cao Yanhua continued to finish the game.
After the devil's training, Cao Yanhua's technology took a qualitative leap after 3 months.
In 1980, one member of the national women's table tennis team contracted hepatitis and was returned to the provincial team. Cao Yanhua was infected, but her transaminases were not high and would not be transmitted to others.
So she stayed with the national team, but she was put in a room near the dumpster at the end of the dormitory, where very few people usually go.
In the 36th World Table Tennis Championships in 1981, Cao Yanhua cooperated with Zhang Deying to win the women's doubles championship. In the women's singles competition, Cao Yanhua, along with Jang Deok-young, Tong Ling, and South Korean athlete Lee Shou-ko, reached the final four.
Tong Ling
In the semifinals, Cao Yanhua defeated Li Shouzi and Tong Ling defeated Zhang Deying. Tong Ling is a chipper, and Cao Yanhua has defeated Tong Ling many times in team competitions.
Because Tong Ling made a contribution to the Chinese team in the team competition, on the eve of the final, the team leader asked Cao Yanhua to give up the championship. As a result, Cao Yanhua played a match-fixing with Tong Ling, losing the ball to Tong Ling and winning the silver medal in the women's singles.
After the game, Cao Yanhua shed tears of heartache.
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Cao Yanhua is the "thorn head" of the national women's table tennis team, she smokes, often gathers with her fellow villagers, and the coach has a headache for her. If they had been another team member, they would have been returned to their original places long ago.
As early as 1980, Cao Yanhua, who was just 18 years old, fell in love, and her boyfriend was Shi Zhihao, the main player of the national table tennis men's team.
Shi Zhihao
Born in Shanghai in 1959, Shi Zhihao is 3 years older than Cao Yanhua and is a hardcore brother with teammate Cai Zhenhua.
Shi Zhihao was originally a table tennis player of the Eight-In-One Workers Brigade, who was selected for the national team in 1977 and is a member of the men's team champion of the World Table Tennis Championships.
At that time, the national table tennis team banned love, and Cao Yanhua's relationship with Shi Zhihao was in an underground state. Sometimes the coach saw the hint, and Cai Zhenhua also helped them cover up.
One weekend, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao went to play in the apartment of a Shanghainese athlete. The other party was an athlete of the national swimming team, who had just returned from a foreign competition, and everyone smoked and chatted in the room.
After they dispersed, no one noticed that a cigarette butt had not been stepped on, and the mop was ignited. In the middle of the night, someone found that the room was on fire, quickly pushed the door in to fight the fire, and found that a wall had been burned black.
From left: Shi Zhihao, Cao Yanhua, Cai Zhenhua
The table tennis team began to investigate the reason, so Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao were involved, and their relationship was exposed.
However, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao denied it, and the team also arranged for The blood of Shi Zhihao to see if he had "Australian resistance positive", because Cao Yanhua had "Australian resistance positive". Fortunately, Shi Zhihao's blood was normal.
Zhou Lansun, the head coach, talked to Cao Yanhua: I am not a coach, but as a father, I am asking you, are you in love with Shi Zhihao?
Cao Yanhua admitted. Zhou Lansun did not force her to break up, but said in a serious tone: You must not affect your athletic performance because of love. Coach Zhou's warm fatherly love made Cao Yanhua moved to tears.
Since then, Cao Yanhua has reduced her contact with Shi Zhihao, trained weekdays, and strived to create fertile ground for her love with excellent results.
Cao Yanhua
In the 37th World Table Tennis Championships in 1983, Cao Yanhua won the women's team and women's singles championships.
In the 38th World Table Tennis Championships in 1985, Cao Yanhua won the women's singles and mixed doubles championships, becoming a well-known leader of the national table tennis women's team, and the media praised her as the "queen of table tennis".
After the World Championships, Cao Yanhua submitted a retirement application to the team. The team insisted on keeping her, hoping that she would participate in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
But Shi Zhihao has returned to the Eight-One Workers Brigade to play, and Cao Yanhua wants to be with her boyfriend. If you continue to play in the team, you may miss this love.
Cao Yanhua
Therefore, she defied the insistence of the team and retired in November 1985, when Cao Yanhua was only 23 years old.
At that time, the Liberation Daily also held a farewell exhibition match for Cao Yanhua, and Cao Yanhua cried.
In May 1986, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao held a simple wedding in Shanghai.
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In September of that year, the Japanese Nittagus Table Tennis Equipment Company invited Cao Yanhua to study and lecture in Japan. She wanted to go with her husband, so Shi Zhihao applied for retirement from the Bayi Engineering Brigade and entered the Shanghai Table Tennis Hall as a coach.
Worried that the impact would not be good, Shi Zhihao did not immediately go through the procedures for going abroad; In addition, he wanted to enter a Japanese language school in Shanghai to learn Japanese, and he could not accompany Cao Yanhua to Japan.
Shi Zhihao and Liu Guoliang
So the newlyweds began a multinational separation that lasted for more than a year.
In September 1987, Cao Yanhua returned to China after finishing his studies. It happened that the German Glen Grass Table Tennis Club invited Shi Zhihao to coach, so Cao Yanhua went to Germany with her husband to live.
At that time, many Clubs in Germany invited Cao Yanhua to play, but she did not want to put too much pressure on herself, so she refused one by one and enjoyed life at home.
In order to get pregnant smoothly, Cao Yanhua quit smoking, and in 1993, her son Shi Zexi was born.
Shi Zhihao's income is relatively high, and the family of three lives a comfortable life in Germany. In 1995, Cao Yanhua had been abroad for 8 years and especially wanted to return to China.
Cao Yanhua and her friend and singer Zhou Bingqian
So she persuaded Shi Zhihao that in the autumn of that year, the family of three left Germany and returned to Shanghai to live.
After returning to China, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao went through business and worked as a real estate agent, but the development was not smooth.
In 1996, Cao Yanhua undertook the selection and awarding of the top ten table tennis players in the country, and more than 300 new and old table tennis champions participated.
At everyone's suggestion, Cao Yanhua decided to open a table tennis school in Shanghai to achieve the combination of physical education and education.
Since then, Cao Yanhua has not been home every day, busy choosing school sites, pulling sponsorships, and enrolling students. In October of this year, Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School officially opened, and the first phase only recruited 8 students, and these children were unwilling to accept by Shanghai Sports School.
In 1997, Shi Zhihao entered the national table tennis women's team to coach, as the head coach of Li Ju and others, Cao Yanhua stayed in Shanghai with his son, and the couple began to live apart for a long time.
Cao Yanhua
At this time, his son was only 4 years old, and Cao Yanhua let his son board in the kindergarten, and only took him home on Sunday.
Shi Zhihao coached in the national table tennis team for several months before returning to Shanghai. Due to the unsatisfactory work and great pressure, Cao Yanhua could not avoid losing her temper with her husband.
Shi Zhihao is also not easy in the national table tennis team, and when negative emotions strike, he will quarrel with Cao Yanhua on the phone. After more than one such number, the couple's feelings have cracked.
In 1998, in order to improve the conditions for running the school, Cao Yanhua consulted with Shi Zhihao and wanted to sell the house in Shanghai. Although Shi Zhihao agreed, he had a knot in his heart.
After selling the house they can only rent a house. The hardships of raising a son, as well as the problem of his son's education, will also make Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao stumble. In 1999, the two divorced, and his son Shi Zexi lived with Cao Yanhua.
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The divorce brought great pain to Cao Yanhua, who had insomnia at night and often covered her head with a quilt and shed tears.
To make matters worse, someone wrote an anonymous letter to the relevant departments at this time, saying that Cao Yanhua only ran the school to make money and had embezzled hundreds of millions of yuan of state assets.
In 2000, the relevant departments formed an investigation team to conduct the investigation. To Cao Yanhua's surprise, the investigation team not only returned her innocence, but also recognized her concept of combining sports and education. The Baoshan District Sports Bureau, education bureau and other relevant departments helped Cao Yanhua solve many practical problems.
Shi Zhihao, Cao Yanhua and son Shi Zexi
In 2005, Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School was rated as a key unit of national table tennis. In 2008, it was rated as an Olympic demonstration school.
So far, Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School has sent Xu Xin and many other national team members to the national team, and the athletes trained by the school have won more than 40 world championships.
Cao Yanhua was devoted to running a school and raising her son, and did not have the heart to think about her own personal problems. Over the years, there are excellent opposite sexes pursuing her, and Cao Yanhua can't find time to fall in love; The second was worried that his son would be wronged, and he refused.
She was busy every day and felt that life was full.
In 2010, Shi Zhihao, who served as the head coach of the national table tennis women's team, remarried with team member Li Nan.
Shi Zhihao with his wife Li Nan and daughter
Born in Tianjin in 1982, Li Nan is 23 years younger than Shi Zhihao and is the main player of the national table tennis team. Li Nan won the 3rd place in the women's singles of the 45th World Table Tennis Championships.
After getting married, Li Nan retired from the army, and in 2012, Li Nan gave birth to his daughter Shi Zenan in Beijing, and the 51-year-old Shi Zhihao became a father again.
Cao Yanhua did not envy Shi Zhihao's happiness, but instead sent blessings. Under Cao Yanhua's education, Shi Zexi had a good relationship with his father. The father remarried and gave birth to a daughter, and Szesi expressed understanding.
Because of the bond of his son, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao did not become enemies after divorcing, but became friends. When Shi Zhihao returned to Shanghai, Cao Yanhua would take his son and invite him to dinner.
In 2016, Shi Zhihao also joked with Cao Yanhua: When will you remarry? Invite me for a drink.
Cao Yanhua and his son and Xu Yinsheng and his wife
Cao Yanhua smiled and said: Fate has not yet come, I will tell you when I come. Shi Zhihao also reminded his son: It is not easy for your mother to be alone, you should pay more attention to her and urge her to have a personal life as soon as possible.
In 2017, Shi Zexi, who has graduated from college, seriously had a conversation with Cao Yanhua: Mom, I will have my own personal life in the future, you must have another emotional belonging, as long as the other party is good to you, I will respect him and filial piety to him.
His son's filial piety and understanding made Cao Yanhua moved to tears.
In 2020, Cao Yanhua broke out on Weibo that she was in love and remarried, and uploaded a photo of herself and her husband.
Her remarried husband is called Diao Ming, who is more than 1.90 meters tall and has a stylish and handsome appearance. Diao Ming was also a table tennis player and a warm-hearted good man.
Cao Yanhua and Diao Ming
In the photo, Cao Yanhua leans on her husband's shoulder like a little woman, her face full of sweetness and happiness.
Nourished by love, Cao Yanhua lived more and more young, and the whole person became more and more beautiful.
In July 2022, Cao Yanhua was 60 years old. Her figure is still slim, her hair is dark, her face and neck are not obviously wrinkled, and she looks like a happy woman.
Yes, a happy marriage is the best skincare product. This belated love makes Cao Yanhua's life singing and fragrant, and the clouds are light and the wind is light!
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