She has participated in three Olympic Games as a taekwondo player for the national team, and is well known for winning the title twice; she is also the champion of the World Championships and the World Cup, she completed the Grand Slam in the field of taekwondo; she has always fought tenaciously, and she died tragically after her unexpected defeat in the 2008 Olympic Games.
After retiring from the military, she continued to dedicate herself to herself as a taekwondo teacher. In this issue, the Ziya Children's Fun Sports Observer will lead everyone to know China's taekwondo female athlete - Chen Zhong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > has loved sports since childhood</h1>
Chen Zhong was born on November 22, 1982, to an ordinary family in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. She has been interested in sports since she was a child. Since the age of four, she has loved to pester her parents to play table tennis together. In 1990, Chen Zhong entered the Municipal Amateur Basketball School, where she studied hard every day and insisted on it for four years.
In 1994, she participated in the national "Miao Miao Cup" basketball tournament and won the fourth place for her team. Although Chen Zhong was only 12 years old at the time, she was much taller than her peers.
In 1995, a taekwondo coach from Beijing went to Henan to select athletes, and at a glance he caught a glimpse of Chen Zhong, who was tall and tall and had super explosive power. Unexpectedly, this became an important turning point in Chen Zhong's life.
Soon, Chen Zhong followed the coach to the Beijing Sport University Athletic Sports School to start a taekwondo journey. After coming to Beijing, she found that it was not what she had hoped for. Not only is there no special training hall for training for yourself, but you also have to start training at eight o'clock every morning and end at six o'clock in the evening, and receive overloaded training every day, and you have to do a thousand kicks just.
While training her blocking ability, her entire arm was bruised with kicks. At that time, after receiving a period of training with the trainees who came at the same time as Chen Zhong, many of them retreated in their hearts.
Only Chen Zhong has a stubborn personality, and she quickly found her feelings in taekwondo by virtue of her good physical fitness and quick reflexes. Two years later, the fast-paced Chen Zhong was selected by the national team, where she underwent more demanding devil training.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="59" > won its first season gold medal</h1>
In 1999, Chen Zhong began to play a big role in taekwondo events. At the World Military Games this year, she won her first gold medal in an international event, which gave her confidence that she would be able to go further and further down the road of taekwondo.
In 2000, Chen Zhong won the Asian Championships in the women's 72 kg or above class. At the Sydney Olympic Games on September 30, she achieved another great result, easily winning China's first taekwondo gold medal in the women's 67 kg or above, and she became famous after this competition.
However, there is no smooth life. Soon, she ushered in the trough of her taekwondo career. In 2002, she suffered an accidental injury to her right leg, which has been in poor shape.
At the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, in November, she endured the pain of participating in the competition, and still made it all the way to the final, but unfortunately lost to South Korea's Choi Jin-mi and came in second.
In 2003, she again came out of the World Championships with an injury, winning only one bronze medal.
On August 30, 2004, in the final of the 67kg or above at the Athens Olympic Games, Chen Zhong played against The French star Pavel, and she easily won the gold medal with comprehensive technology and varied tactical application, entering the peak of her career.
In early 2005, Chen Zhong, who was forced to undergo surgery, did not have time to participate in the World Championships.
In 2006, at the Asian Games in Doha, Chen Zhong once again appeared in front of the eyes of the world, and she won the championship without suspense.
On May 22, 2007, in the final of the women's 72kg and above at the World Championships, Chen Zhong dueled against South Korean athlete Han Zhenshan, and the final result was that Chen Zhong won the first gold medal of her sports career in the world championships with a narrow victory over her opponents, completing the Olympic Games, World Championships and World Cup Grand Slams.
Chen Zhong has won two consecutive Olympic titles, and if she successfully defends her title in the 2008 Games held on her doorstep, she will not only become the first athlete in the history of Chinese sports to win the Olympic Triple Olympic Championship, but also the first person in the history of the Olympic Games to win a three-consecutive championship in taekwondo. However, the road to success is always full of hardships.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > impact their olympic triple titles</h1>
The 2008 Olympic Games were held in Beijing, and Chen Zhong was lucky enough to become a torchbearer. However, during the game, Lady Luck did not care for her again, and in the quarter-finals, she suddenly suffered a post-match change, which made her regretfully withdraw. This result is really unexpected, in the eyes of everyone, Chen has strength, good state, and it is easy to achieve three consecutive championships.
After the game, Chen Zhong tried to restrain his emotions in an interview, looking calm as water on the surface, but choking up when he spoke. She sincerely apologized to the people of china and has since left the sight of everyone. Faced with the cruel fact that the Olympic sentence was changed, she was very disappointed and took a long time to get out of the shadows.
Later, Chen Zhong chose to get married and have children, and did not wear a training suit for two years, and did not carry out any training. So when she was invited to teach, she hesitated, and she smiled and said that she would only do the back kick now.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > officially retired as a taekwondo instructor</h1>
In 2009, Chen Xuan officially retired. She returned to her alma mater and worked on the Youth League Committee at Beijing Sport University. At the same time, she is also enthusiastic about spreading sportsmanship and physical exercise knowledge.
In the first training class, Chen Zhong put on a Taoist costume that she had not worn for a long time, although she was a mother at that time, but the clothes still fit very well, but the black belt area was somewhat faded. There is a saying in taekwondo circles that the older the black belt, the deeper the skill.
During the class, Chen Zhong would use his own hand as a target to help the young players correct the height, and would also encourage the students who were still undergoing physical training by clapping, and sometimes lovingly stroke the students' heads.
Chen Zhong in the classroom is always smiling, very patient, and treats all students like his own children.
In Chen Zhong's eyes, it is meaningful to hold such activities in schools, and through training, students can learn a lot of beneficial things, which is very beneficial for their future growth.
So, even though every time I finish the class. Chen Zhong would be exhausted, but she would always insist on going through every class. Chen Zhong treats all students equally, and for those who are not very capable, she will spend more time to give her more care.
Over the years, Chen Zhong has always had the label of a successful woman, she is always ranked in the front, in the past she was used to this and did not have any feelings, will be used to standing in the first row.
Now, after she taught, after adjusting the ranking of the students, she found that in fact, the backward people should be arranged in the front row, so that they will feel the pressure from the excellent, in order to find themselves, have the motivation to persevere. This inadvertent discovery played a huge role in her future work in teaching taekwondo and even conducting research.
On September 2, 2010, Chen Zhong, who had disappeared from the public eye for a long time, made his debut at the taekwondo competition of the first Martial Arts Games in Beijing. Just two years ago, she was a taekwondo player and was the protagonist of the venue.
That day was different from before, she no longer appeared in the venue as a contestant, but as a spectator, when she took her mother and her son, who had just turned one year old, wearing a green dress with a smile, so that people could feel the satisfaction and happiness of her wife and mother.
Although she sat in the audience, she was spotted by sharp-eyed reporters. Reporters rushed to interview her, and in the face of the media, she smiled and said that she had come to cheer on the Chinese team, and she just wanted to see the development of taekwondo in the world now. In that competition, our country's contestants achieved a good result of ranking eighth, and she lamented that the level of the participants was very high.
In the past, Chen Zhong participated in the competition, the use of electronic protective gear is rare, and now all the world competitions use electronic protective gear, which makes her feel a lot, she just left taekwondo for two years, the development of world taekwondo is too fast, she can't catch up.
Today, Chen Zhong's son has also begun to engage in sports, and she has repeatedly warned her son to work hard and not give up easily. Because in Chen Zhong's heart, since she engaged in sports, the most valuable wealth she has gained is to have a sense of faith and the spirit of hard work, and she only wants to share her most precious things with the people she loves the most.
Now, Chen Zhong has been retired for a long time and has gradually withdrawn from everyone's vision. Run your own family and live your own life. When it comes to the future planning of the child, Chen Zhong is very frank and said that he will respect the child's future choices. Chen Zhong was once a talented taekwondo teenager, and now he is retired, and twelve years have passed in a flash, and Chen Zhong has also changed from a young girl to a mother of a child.
At present, the thirty-nine-year-old Chen Zhong already has everything that many people dream of, a husband who treats him as before, a well-behaved and lovely son, a generous economic condition, and a hobby life that he is practicing. Obviously, Chen Zhong is now living very comfortably.
Whether it is the youth when she was a fledgling, or the domineering spirit when she was full of spirits, or the work after retiring, Chen Zhong has always received everyone's attention, no one dares to deny that she is a legend, when people talk about her, although there will be regrets about the defeat of the Beijing Olympic Games, but more is the admiration for her Grand Slam.
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