On August 27, the good news came from the scene of the Tokyo Paralympic Games, and weightlifter Hu Dandan won the gold medal with 120 kg to win the gold medal in the women's 50 kg weightlifting event, winning the championship of the event, which is also her second Paralympic gold medal after winning the women's weightlifting 50 kg competition at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, which is a new world record!
The Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter learned that a few years ago, Hu Dandan and her husband, who is also a weightlifter, settled down in Yanjiang Street, Jiangbei New District, Nanjing, and after winning the championship, her family shared her story of struggling for the competition.
Correspondent Xu Wenqing Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Liu Liyuan
Hu Dandan
Resist the pressure of magnitude and age before starting
On the morning of the 28th, the staff of Yanjiang Street brought flowers, fruit baskets and toys to the home of Olympic champion Hu Dandan, and Hu Dandan's husband Li Zhen and his mother warmly received them. Everyone connected the live video to Hu Dandan, who had just won the championship.
"Fantastic, my wife is fantastic, this gold medal carries too much to give!" Looking back at last night's game, I can still feel his excitement from Li Zhen's words.
"This championship is not easy!" Li Zhen's voice was somewhat choked. "Because of the birth of a child, she rose from the original 45 kg to 50 kg, plus she is older, and if she wants to win the gold medal, she will have to work several times harder than others." Egyptian players are more than ten years younger than Hu Dandan, and the weight to be lifted every time is step by step, before the huge pressure, Hu Dandan can adjust his mentality and withstand the pressure to win the championship in one fell swoop, it is really not easy! pride! Full of pride! ”
Past honors received by Hu Dandan
Li Zhen spread the medals and honorary certificates that Hu Dandan had won over the years on the coffee table in front of him. There are Rio Olympic Gold Medal, National Games Gold Medal, National March 8th Red Flag Bearer, National May Day Labor Medal, Chinese Youth May Fourth Medal... Behind these medals and honors is Hu Dandan's sweat and dedication that is different from ordinary people. Li Zhen said: "Giving up a small family, for everyone, this is the sacred mission of every athlete, the motherland has cultivated us, we must contribute to the country and the people!" ”
Closed training begins within a few months of production
Hu Dandan was born in 1989 and was 9 months disabled by polio. Out of the original intention of strengthening her own exercise and tempering her will, she began to contact competitive sports at the age of 9. Step by step, a little bit of accumulation, Hu Dandan from the municipal training team all the way to the national team, not only harvested a table full of honors can not be piled up, but also harvested their own love, husband Li Zhen is an undifferentiated weightlifter, has won the national paralympic games men's 100 kg or more level gold medal and many other honors.
At the 2014 National Games, both won the weightlifting event. In 2015, they settled their small homes in the streets along the river. At the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Hu Dandan stood on the podium with an Olympic record-breaking performance in the 45 kg category, the first Olympic gold medal of her athletic career.
After his triumph in Rio, Hu Dandan was promoted to a mother. The national team also issued an invitation to Hu Dandan to compete in the Tokyo Paralympic Games again, Hu Dandan looked at the unanheated baby and her husband Li Zhen, Li Zhen said: "Fight! I'll take care of the family and the kids, don't worry! A "fight" made Hu Dandan break through the defense in an instant, endure the pain to let his son wean, and after only a few months of childbirth, Hu Dandan entered the team to train in closed training to prepare for the Paralympic Qualifying Tournament. "A class lasts an average of 3 hours, lying flat on the training bench, relying on the strength of the upper limbs, lifting 160 barbells, and lifting 12,000 kilograms in 3 hours." The hard training supported Hu Dandan all the way to victory and won the Olympic gold medal. As a husband, Li Zhen, in order to let Hu Dandan devote himself to the weightlifting business, he chose to return to their small home and take care of the children and the elderly, so that Hu Dandan had no worries.
The staff of the street along the river came to congratulate them
"Get off the podium, everything starts from scratch!"
"Get off the podium, everything starts from scratch!" Hu Dandan's words when the video connection is touching.
It wasn't until the news of Hu Dandan's victory spread throughout the community that the neighbors knew that there was such a low-key Olympic champion family living around them. "We usually train in the provincial team, never told the neighbors about these honors at home, usually only with the property and the big sister next door to discuss taking more care of the elderly and children at home, afraid that we can help when we are not there." When the staff asked what help they usually needed, Li Zhen specifically mentioned his gratitude to the street and the community, "When the garbage classification was implemented, Dan Dan specially told the property that he hoped to have auxiliary roads for the disabled to go up and down, and when we built this classification point, I saw that there were auxiliary roads installed, and the street community and the property really put our needs in mind, and I was very touched and very grateful." ”
"I miss Mom, when will she be back?" Hu Dandan's son has not seen his mother for more than a year, and he endures the thought of his mother every time he videos, sometimes avoiding Hu Dandan's call in the mobile phone in order not to cry. "My son is very smart, from a young age we taught him that although his parents have physical disabilities, we are no different from others, we are just as self-reliant and self-reliant, training hard with hard work and sweat, and creating our own happiness." We did not open up and show off these honors to the outside world, but just wanted my son to see the efforts of his parents and inspire him to grow up with integrity and health. Li Zhen's words made people move.
Proofread by Faye Wong
Source: Purple Cow News