Since 1993, Chen Yanhao's two consecutive championships, Liu Xiang's three consecutive championships, Xie Wenjun's three consecutive championships, the Shanghai sports delegation has achieved the eight consecutive championships in the 110-meter hurdles of the National Games. After 28 years, three generations of athletes have completed the replacement, only Sun Haiping is still sticking to the coaching position, and his hair has become gray and sparse.
Sun Haiping has loved to play on the track and field since he was a child, and he used to train with a physical education teacher in middle school. He was 14 years old at the time and was exposed to hurdles for the first time. Although the conditions were rudimentary, the runway was a cinder track, and there was no sports equipment in the school, it was from that moment that his life was linked to the 110-meter hurdles.
Treating the 110-meter hurdles, Sun Haiping has an obsession. In an interview, he said: "In 1978, I became an athletics coach, and I was holding my breath. Because when I was an athlete, I obviously spent a lot of time training, but the results were very poor, and it was no better than the mobilization abroad. I am not convinced, I must improve the athlete's performance. After years of deep cultivation, Sun Haiping understood, "Our biggest problem is the concept problem, we can't practice hard, we must practice skillfully." Chen Yanhao was his first batch of apprentices, and the training time at that time was reduced by half compared to before. Later, Liu Xiang and Xie Wenjun, the training time was reduced by half.
Time has decreased, but grades have gone up. Liu Xiang has become a big star on the international stage, in addition to personal talent, Sun Haiping's constantly updated training concept ushered in the harvest season. His training not only focuses on technology, but also on psychology, often giving positive encouragement to athletes. "I would record it on both sides of a book at the same time. The positive side shows the athletes the imaginary results; the negative side shows it to myself, which is real. Fiction is always faster than the real, which can boost confidence. ”
After Xie Wenjun achieved three consecutive championships, the first person to thank him was Sun Haiping. "Overall, it was not bad, Xie Wenjun ran his best." Just after the end of the game, Sun Haiping's thoughts drifted to the Asian Games a year later, "His first half of the problem needs to be solved well, especially the starting point, otherwise the Asian Games will put a lot of pressure on us." Even if he boiled his head white, Sun Haiping had no intention of taking a back seat. In addition to Xie Wenjun, Shanghai young player Qin Weibo also played an outstanding role in this National Games.
This was the first time that Qin Weibo had participated in such a large competition. The 2-meter-tall, outstanding pace boy will be given high hopes by Sun Haiping: "Whether China's hurdles can return to the world's peak depends on you." At one time, Qin Weibo was considered Liu Xiang's successor because his grades were faster than Liu Xiang's at the same age.
However, the ankle injury in 2019 interrupted Qin Weibo's forward steps. During the long recovery process, the physical injury gradually shifted into a psychological shadow, and his right foot never dared to exert force, and the results of the game plummeted. "An athlete who never gets hurt is not a good athlete." Sun Haiping comforted the apprentice like this, "I can give you the key, but the lock is in your heart, you have to open it yourself." ”
At the National Games, Qin Weibo finally untied the knot in his heart, ran 13.70 seconds, and refreshed the season best by 0.3 seconds. "There are still three years to go before the Paris Olympics, and we have strengthened him through these three years, first and foremost because of the problem of muscle mass. In the end, I still wanted to push him to the international arena. ”
The world stage is the obsession in Sun Haiping's heart, and it is also this belief that makes him stick to the coaching position and cultivate generations of athletes. "I hope that any of our projects will be able to stand on the international podium, raise the national flag and play the national anthem on the world sports competition stage, which is the symbol of a sports power."