Coach Sun Haiping is a very respectable coach, and when Liu Xiang was at his most beautiful, he and Liu Xiang were almost "mutual achievements". After Liu Xiang, Sun Haiping cultivated Xie Wenjun. And Liu Xiang in 2015 after retiring from the army has no intention of becoming a coach, Sun Haiping continues to look for good seedlings in the Chinese men's 110-meter hurdles, from October 2014 to Zeng Jianhang to Fuzhou for an "interview", to now the 66-year-old coach has taken the young new disciple for more than 6 years, these days the two masters and apprentices are suffering greatly - today's latest news is that Zeng Jianhang has surgery tomorrow, he himself admitted that this season is completely out of the field, the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Western Safety Games can not participate.
Last Saturday at the Athletics Division Invitational in Zhaoqing, Zeng Jianhang had a very heart-wrenching accident. He ran 13.62 seconds in the preliminaries and won the first place, when he warmed up before the afternoon final, he stepped on the railing on the track, resulting in a fracture of his right hip femoral humerus, and yesterday the Shanghai team had contacted the plane to take Zeng Jianhang back to Shanghai. Yesterday, sun Haiping said in an interview with CCTV that Zeng Jianhang needed to rest for at least three months after being seriously injured this time, and it was impossible for him to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Zeng Jianhang, 22, has been very active this season, with a strong upward momentum, just running a personal best of 13.43 seconds in Shaoxing earlier this month. This time in Zhaoqing, Zeng Jianhang wanted to hit the 13.32 seconds Tokyo Olympic standard, so when preparing for the final, the force under each action was relatively large, and he did not expect to encounter such an accident. This afternoon, Zeng Jianhang updated Weibo and revealed that this year is a pity, and it may be next year that there will be a new start.
Liu Xiang is a genius who is rare in a hundred years of Chinese athletics, of course, Sun Haiping also met this "thousand-mile horse". After Liu Xiang faded out of the line, Sun Haiping used his rich experience to bring out Liu Xiang and build Xie Wenjun into the king of Asian bars. The talent of each athlete is also different, and Xie Wenjun is still difficult to break through when he is close to the age of 30, and there is a gap with the world's first-class level. A few years ago, Xie Wenjun proposed to go to the United States for training and find a coach again, and Sun Haiping also let it go very generously. With the help of foreign teachers, Xie Wenjun's progress in the past two years is very obvious, and Xie Wenjun has raised his personal best to 13.17 seconds in the 2019 Diamond League Shanghai Station, and there is still more obvious room for improvement.
Sun Haiping has not stopped his efforts to find new seedlings since 2012, and his team has Zhang Honglin, who was specially recruited from Henan, and Zeng Jianhang, who was specially recruited from Guangdong, and at present, Zeng Jianhang's talent is relatively the best. At present, we can only wish Zeng Jianhang a good treatment and good recovery, and next year's Eugene World Championships and Hangzhou Asian Games will once again show his might.
Liu Xiang created a great achievement for China in the 110-meter hurdles, and he was criticized for his withdrawal from the two Olympic Games in Beijing and London. Liu Xiang himself has never been interested in being a coach, Sun Haiping actually took the initiative to mention this to Liu Xiang, and Liu Xiang still politely refused. Sun Haiping is 66 years old and cannot continue to work in the hurdles coaching position. Other domestic first-line hurdles coaches seem to have difficulty comparing their coaching ability and the performance of the athletes they have trained with Coach Sun Haiping.
I feel that the upcoming 31-year-old Xie Wenjun is a more research-minded athlete, we hope that in two years, Xie Wenjun will be able to transform into a coach after not being an athlete, continue to maintain the level of the Chinese men's 110-meter hurdles, pass on our torch in this project, discover more good seedlings, and maintain even our position as the hegemon of the Asian high hurdles.