First gold! Yang Qian won the first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games!
On July 24, 2021, the first gold medal battle for the Tokyo Olympic Games began. In the women's 10m air rifle competition, China's Yang Qian set an Olympic final record and won the championship with a score of 251.8 rings. Helped the Chinese Legion win the first gold.
And this gold medal is also the first gold medal in the entire Tokyo Olympic Games.
Hearing this news, every friend around me was excited.
At the same time, we recall that in 1984, at the Los Angeles Olympics, Xu Haifeng won the championship in the men's shooting event and won the first gold medal for the Chinese Olympic team. At that time, we were even more excited than we are today. Even the mixed feelings of sorrow and joy were even stronger than today.
Xu Haifeng's shot not only won the first gold in the Olympic Games, but also the first gold in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games, and has since opened up a new milestone in the Chinese Olympic Games.
So, do you remember the athletes who also won gold medals for the Chinese team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics? In addition to Xu Haifeng, who else is there? After 37 years, how have they changed?
Today, let's find out through the form of contrasting the past and present.
1. Xu Haifeng
In 1984, at the 23rd Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng won the men's pistol 60-round slow-fire championship with a score of 566 rings. This is not only the first gold medal won by the Chinese Olympic delegation at the Olympic Games, but also the first gold medal in China's Olympic history.
That year, Xu Haifeng was 27 years old.
Since then, he has won the championship in countless competitions and won glory for the motherland.
In 1995, Xu Haifeng announced his retirement and began his coaching career. He served as the coach of the women's pistol group of the national shooting team and trained several Olympic champions such as Li Xianghong and Tao Luna. In early 2001, he served as the head coach of the national shooting team and the head coach of the women's pistol team, becoming the only coach of the Chinese shooting team to hold two hats. Since May 2003, Xu Haifeng has taken up a leadership position and done a good job. On November 13, 2017, Xu Haifeng officially retired. On September 25, 2019, Xu Haifeng was selected as the "Most Beautiful Strivers".
Today, Xu Haifeng is 64 years old, wrinkles have crept up his forehead, and his hair has become sparse. He is still concerned about the development of China's sports industry, the hosting of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and he is even more excited about Yang Qian's gold medal. In his spare time, he and his wife would go to the wet market and take a walk together, which he said was the happiest time he felt.
2. Zeng Guoqiang
Compared with Xu Haifeng, many people may have forgotten Zeng Guoqiang's name. But on July 29, 1984, four hours after Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal for China, Zeng Guoqiang won the second gold medal for the Chinese delegation in the 52 kg event. In this game, zeng Guoqiang used a coherent and coordinated movement to hold the barbell firmly in the air, which I still remember. He was 19 years old. In 1987, as he grew older, he chose to retire. In 1991, he began coaching. In 1994, he became a member of the coaching staff of the national weightlifting team. Later, he returned to the Guangdong Sports Bureau as the coach of the weightlifting team. Today, Zeng Guoqiang is 56 years old, and from his recent photos, he is much fatter than when he was younger, but his physique is still as strong as a cow.
3. Li Yuwei
Li Yuwei was only 19 years old when he won the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. He has a very strong personality, has high requirements for himself, and has a particularly good psychological quality. I think that's the key to his gold medal at the Olympics. He chose to retire in 1997. After retiring from the army, he also began his coaching career as a coach in the Liaoning Provincial Shooting Team. Later, he became the vice principal of the Liaoning Provincial Military Sports Land Sports School, and then served as the director of the Liaoning Provincial Shooting and Archery Sports Management Center.
Fourth, Wu Xiaoxuan
Wu Xiaoxuan is China's first women's Olympic champion. In 1984, she won the women's small-caliber standard rifle championship at the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA. She was also the first gold medalist in the women's rifle 3×20 event in Olympic history. After retiring in 1989, she first served as the deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Commission, then resigned from the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau to go to Los Angeles, and returned to Hangzhou in July 2009 as the honorary principal of the shooting school. Although she is thin, she is tenacious. Now that she is 63 years old, her son is married and has children, she and her grandchildren are enjoying themselves.
5. Wu Shude
In 1984, in the weightlifting competition of the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, Wu Shude won the gold medal in the 56 kg category with a total score of 267.5 kg. At the same time, according to the regulations of the International Lifting Federation, the results of the Olympic weightlifting competition were also used as the results of the World Weightlifting Championships that year, so Wu Shude won the 38th World Weightlifting Championships in the 56 kg category and the two championships in the deadlift. After retiring in 1985, he served as deputy director of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Sports Bureau. In August 1992, Nanning Wu Shude Weightlifting School was established, with Wu Shude as the principal. In 2002, he became head coach of the national weightlifting team. Now 61 years old, he has retired. In addition to doing some things that are helpful to his sports career, he also calmed down to practice painting and writing. He said, "Actually, I learned to draw before I practiced weightlifting. If I hadn't become a weightlifter, maybe I would have been a painter. ”
6. Chen Weiqiang
Chen Weiqiang's uncle is the famous Chen Jingkai. But in the eyes of coach Zhao Huaguan, Chen Weiqiang's conditions are not the best, but his spirit of not accepting defeat has made him create a miracle. In August 1984, Chen Weiqiang won the gold medal in the 60 kg category at the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games. Glory for the country. In 1990, after retiring from the army, Chen Weiqiang first went to the sea to do business, and then served as the head coach of the Guangdong weightlifting team. Since 2003 he has been coaching the national team. In 2004, he returned to Guangdong to focus on 62 kg training. He is now 63 years old.
7. Yao Jingyuan
Yao Jingyuan was born with a small hand shape, and his hands no longer grow after the age of 15. This is very detrimental to a weightlifter. But he overcame this difficulty, through training and mastery of technology, and finally achieved good results, winning the gold medal in the 67.5 kg category in the weightlifting competition of the 23rd Olympic Games, known as "Little Hand Hercules". After retiring in 1987, he worked as a coach for the Liaoning Provincial Weightlifting Team. In 2002, he became the coach of the national team. In 2008, he returned to Liaoning as the women's echelon coach of the weightlifting team.
VIII. Li Ning
Li Ning was one of the most prominent athletes of the 20th century. In 1984, in the men's gymnastics competition of the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, he won a total of three championships in men's free gymnastics, pommel horse and hoops, winning three gold, two silver and one bronze, becoming the athlete with the most medals in the Olympic Games.
In 1989, after Li Ning retired from the military, he founded the "Li Ning" brand named after himself, which has become a national sporting goods brand in China after years of development. In 2010, he founded Extraordinary China Holdings Limited, created several Li Ning Sports Park and Mass Skating Training Program All-Star Skating Clubs serving the urban community, and invested in the League of Legends professional e-sports club, LNG Esports Club. Over the years, it has been focusing on the development of sports and related businesses, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of China's sports industry and consumer goods industry. Judging from his comparison between the past and the present, his changes are really quite big, and the teenager who used to be green and green is now a proper president uncle.
9. Lou Yun
At the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, in addition to Li Ning, another Chinese gymnast who left an unforgettable impression on us was Lou Yun. In the Olympic Games, Lou Yun's first completion of the "forehand flip body 180 degrees plus straight body backflip" and "forehand flip body front flip body 540 degrees" two difficult actions, was later included in the International Gymnastics Federation in the "International Gymnastics Men's Scoring Rules", of which "forehand flip body front flip body 540 degrees" was also named "Lou Yun Jump 1". In 1988, he won the vaulting championship again at the 24th Seoul Olympic Games, and his "forehand flip straight body front flip 540 degrees" in the vault horse was named "Lou Yun Jump 2" by the International Gymnastics Federation.
In 1989, after Lou Yun retired from the army, he also moved to the shopping mall. He has successively founded "Tongda Garment", Beijing Louyun Real Estate Co., Ltd., and in 2006, established Louyun Greentown Cultural and Sports Development Co., Ltd. and Greentown Group. Today, Lou Yun, 57 years old, has become a successful entrepreneur like Li Ning.
10. Ma Yanhong
Ma Yanhong was the first athlete to win a world championship in gymnastics for China, and the first athlete in China to be approved by the International Gymnastics Federation to name technical movements after her own name. In 1984, at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, she won the gold medal on the uneven bars with her original action of "360 degrees under the back flip of the bar" and high-quality complete performances, which amazed the eyes of the world audience. She was 21 years old. She has since officially retired. In 1987, she went to the United Kingdom and then to the United States. In 1994, he returned to Beijing and began to develop his career. Today, she is 57 years old and has a successful career, but she is not very emotionally satisfactory. She had a failed marriage, remained single since the divorce, and from recent photos, she is still so beautiful and elegant.
11. Luan Jujie
Luan Jujie's body also has many unforgettable things. In 1978, in the final of the 29th World Youth Championships, Luan Jujie insisted on playing 5 matches with amazing will despite being pierced by his opponent's sword through his left arm. Her tenacious spirit attracted national attention, and the People's Daily published an article "Raising the Eyebrows and Sheathing the Sword" to tell the story of Luan Jujie. In 1984, she won China's first Olympic gold medal in the women's foil competition at the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games. In 2008, at the age of 50, she represented the Canadian delegation in the Beijing Olympic Games and became a "living fossil" in the sword world.
In 1988, after luan Jujie participated in the Seoul Olympic Games, he chose to retire due to acute nephritis. After retiring from the army, she went to Canada to study, and stayed there to treat her daughter, serving as the head coach of the women's foil in the Canadian national team. She represented Canada in fencing at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 at the age of 42. In 2008, after participating in the foil competition at the Beijing Olympic Games, he retired again. Today, Luan Jujie is 62 years old, and looking at her recent photos, I feel that she has changed a lot.
XII. Zhou Jihong
In 1984, because the female diver Lu Wei, who was scheduled to participate in the Olympic Games, was injured, Zhou Jihong was fortunate to win the right to participate in the women's platform competition at the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games. In the competition, she overpowered her teammate Chen Xiaoxia and others to win the gold medal with a total score of 435.51 points. He became China's first diving Olympic champion.
In 1986, Zhou Jihong retired from the military and first entered Peking University to study English, and then began coaching the Chinese national diving team in 1990. In 1998, Zhou Jihong was appointed as the leader of the Chinese diving team. As of 2012, Zhou Jihong led the Chinese diving team to win a total of 24 Olympic championships. On July 14, 2021, the list of Chinese sports delegations for the Tokyo Olympic Games was announced, and Zhou Jihong served as the diving team leader. Judging from her recent photos, she is still so beautiful and her temperament is more capable.
In 1984, at the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, the girls of the Chinese women's volleyball team won the gold medal for China. They are the eternal idols in the hearts of Chinese, after 37 years, how have they changed?
XIII. Lang Ping
No. 1 Lang Ping won the reputation of "iron hammer" because he was steady, accurate and fierce when he slammed the ball. As the main attacker of the national team, she played a beautiful smash on the field, and Lang Ping was indispensable on the road of the women's volleyball girl winning the "five consecutive championships". Lang Ping has been coaching since his retirement. In 2019, as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, he led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the World Cup championship.
14. Liang Yan
As the only participant in the "Five Consecutive Championships", Liang Yan was a participant and witness of the most brilliant period of the Chinese women's volleyball team. After retiring from the military, she chose to study in the journalism department of Chinese University, and then joined the magazine "New Sports". In 1995, he began to do business, became the owner of a sports culture media company, and his career was booming. Today, it has a net worth of hundreds of millions. And her daughter is also outstanding, is a Tsinghua xueba.
Fifteen, Zhu Ling
Zhu Ling is characterized by "fast speed, fierce smashing, high bounce, accurate netting, strict defense", and had the nickname of "spring legs" in the national team that year. After retiring in 1984, she entered the position of sports management and was promoted step by step. In 2004, Zhu Ling was officially promoted to the director of the Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau, and the official was promoted to the level of the main hall. Until September 11, 2018, Zhu Ling retired.
16. Hou Yuzhu
In the first game of the women's volleyball final at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Chinese team originally led 14-9, and then the American team struggled to chase the score to 14-14. The Chinese team won the right to serve, and at this critical moment, Yuan Weimin replaced Hou Yuzhu on the field. Hou Yuzhu directly scored 1 point with a "hard hook ball" in one hand, and the second ball was Hou Yuzhu's serve, and the American team did not put a pass in place, and directly sent a "probe ball" to the Chinese team. Years later, fans are still relishing Hou Yuzhu's two serves. After retiring from the army in 1989, Hou Yuzhu went abroad to play for a few years, then returned to China, and then worked in the Fujian Provincial Sports Bureau, and is currently the deputy director of the Education, Science, Health and Sports Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a second-level inspector of the Fujian Provincial Sports Bureau.
17. Zhou Xiaolan
Zhou Xiaolan was a representative of the Chinese women's volleyball team. After retiring from the army, she became the head of the Volleyball Department of the National Sports Commission. In 1995, he became the youngest deputy director-level cadre. But then she moved to the United States with her husband and gave birth to two children. Her two daughters are very good, which makes Zhou Xiaolan, 64, very proud.
XVIII. Yang Ceylon
Yang Ceylan said, "Where the children are, where is my husband and I's home." On the field, she is a fierce player. In life, she is a mother who is devoted to the care of her children. After the Seoul Olympics, Yang Ceylon chose to retire and settled in Switzerland with her husband Zhang Jianguo. Here, she was offered a job as a security guard at the United Nations, which she has been working for for more than 20 years. Now her children are grown up. The family lived a happy life.
19. Zhang Rongfang
Zhang Rongfang's characteristics are "fast eyes, fast hands, fast feet, and ball road", which is called "three fast and one diao". After the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, she chose to retire and became the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team in May 1986. Later, he successively served as deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Sports Commission, deputy director of the Training Bureau of the State Sports Commission, vice chairman of the All-China Youth Federation, and director of the Volleyball Management Center of the National Sports Federation. In November 2015, as she grew older, Zhang Rongfang felt some discomfort and took the initiative to leave her job. After retirement, Zhang Rongfang lived a comfortable pension life.
I remember Ni Ping once said that the achievements of sports athletes are spelled out by their own strength. This is not false at all. Every point of their achievement is earned by their own efforts and sweat, so they deserve our respect. Today, when we look back on the Chinese athletes who won gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games, we can't help but think about it. It was from that Olympic Games that Chinese athletes showed their true style to the world. It was also since then that the whole world has gained a renewed understanding and understanding of China. Here, let us pay tribute to all the Chinese athletes who participated in the 23rd Olympic Games.