As one of the representatives of the spirit of Chinese sports, the spirit of women's volleyball has inspired countless teenagers to dedicate themselves to the motherland and work tenaciously and diligently, and the volleyball women who won five consecutive championships in the past have also become a model for a generation of young people to learn.
And in this group of volleyball women who do not let their eyebrows be raised, there is a girl, she is the only one who personally participated in the five consecutive championships of the Chinese women's volleyball team, becoming the only "five champions" in the history of the women's volleyball team, this person is Liang Yan.
After she retired from the army, she turned to the shopping mall, and her daughter was a Doctor of Tsinghua University.
Liang Yan
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > "five crowns" is well deserved</h1>
At the peak of the Chinese women's volleyball team, there were many outstanding women's volleyball players, such as Lang Ping, who was known as the "iron hammer", Chen Zhaodi, the "volleyball general", etc., some of whom are still dedicating themselves to the Chinese women's volleyball team, and some have passed away.
Liang Yan, on the other hand, has another life experience.
Compared with Lang Ping and Chen Zhaodi, Liang Yan's volleyball career is more smooth, because of the height advantage, at the age of 14, Liang Yan began to play volleyball with the support of her parents.
At a time when her peers were still laughing at the knees of her parents, she had already begun a hard training.
At that time, there were several other people who trained with Liang Yan, but among them, Liang Yan worked hardest, and later, as her height advantage was revealed, her advantage in volleyball was gradually revealed.
A year later, Liang Yan was selected for the Chengdu volleyball team, and then began her highlight moment, because of the height advantage coupled with hard training, Liang Yan quickly stood out from the Chengdu volleyball team.
In 1977, Liang Yan was selected for the Sichuan Provincial Volleyball Team, and because of her outstanding performance in the team, Liang Yan was soon selected to join the national team.
Whether it is a coach or a teammate, the impression of seeing Liang Yan at first is the same, a young girl, with a ponytail, with wheat-colored skin and Juanxiu's face, beautiful and dignified, gentle and elegant, smiling, especially smiling on the field and off the field, which is why she was later called "smiling black baby".
Of course, Liang Yan who entered the national team has not always been smooth sailing, the training of the national team is very heavy, everyone is holding the faith of winning glory for the country in their best efforts, Liang Yan is no exception, at that time, her height was already one meter 77, which was also outstanding among many women's volleyball players, so she was arranged by the coach to the position of the women's volleyball team.2
However, at that time, the women's volleyball national team had a strong Zhang Rongfang in the secondary offensive position, and Liang Yan could only serve as a substitute, but even so, she still had a good attitude, and even when the coach was still thinking about how to enlighten her, she was already able to enlighten herself.
In addition, Liang Yan is very hard in the process of daily training, perhaps because she has been exposed to volleyball later than other teammates, so she always redoubles her efforts.
As we all know, volleyball sports opponents have higher arm strength requirements, and even people with congenital arm length have more obvious advantages when playing volleyball, which is a reason why tall people have an advantage in playing basketball.
Therefore, in addition to the daily training, Liang Yan will also add some additional arm training to herself to exercise her arm strength.
And under her day and night efforts, the training effect is also very obvious, in the next few warm-up games, Liang Yan's results are very eye-catching, and in her eyes, this is due to her hard training day after day.
The women's volleyball coach who was in charge of training at that time once said in an interview that Liang Yan was a volleyball player who was "rooted in Miao Hong".
The meaning of the coach is easy to understand, among the many women's volleyball players who have been selected to join the national team, Liang Yan may not be the most talented, but he is the most trustworthy in terms of comprehensive ability.
Almost every game she plays is very stable, and her mentality is beyond the good of ordinary people, perhaps because of this, Liang Yan has become the only "five champions" in the history of the women's volleyball team.
In the third World Cup in 1981, the Chinese women's volleyball team successfully won the championship with a record of seven total victories, opening a new era belonging to the Chinese women's volleyball team, and Liang Yan, as one of the main players participating in this event, she also became one of the witnesses of this historic moment.
After this competition, the victory of the Chinese women's volleyball team followed, in the 9th World Women's Volleyball Championship in 1982, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the 1985 World Cup and the 10th World Women's Volleyball Championship in 1986, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship with its head held high.
Such achievements shocked the whole world, but also let the Chinese women's volleyball team officially become one of the representatives of China's competitive sports, sports people from all over the world have set their sights on China, to the Chinese women's volleyball team.
And Liang Yan, as the only women's volleyball player to participate in all five competitions, her emotions are particularly strong, standing on the podium of each venue, watching the five-star red flag belonging to China rising, listening to the "Volunteer March" resounding in the hall, which is the most glorious moment in the life of every athlete.
Liang Yan said: "I belong to the kind of luck that is better, at the peak of the Chinese women's volleyball team, I had the honor to participate in all of it..." In fact, the luck in Liang Yan's mouth is only her humble words, and the hard training paid by the women's volleyball players in that period for the victory of the competition is unimaginable to us today.
Later, in an interview, Liang Yan's parents also admitted that every time they went to visit their daughter, they were very distressed when they saw the bruises left on her arms and legs, but every time in the end, they became daughters to comfort them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > chose a different life after retiring</h1>
After winning five world gold medals in succession in the Chinese women's volleyball team, Liang Yan had to choose to retire because years of training had brought a lot of pain to her body, and after accumulating to a certain extent, she was unable to load anymore.
And this is actually the fundamental reason why many athletes finally choose to retire, they dedicate their youth and sweat to the volleyball career they love, even if they are full of scars, they are willing to eat.
After retiring, Liang Yan is not like other teammates, still engaged in volleyball-related work, perhaps because the first half of her life is closely related to volleyball, and after choosing to say goodbye to it, Liang Yan decided to start another journey of her own.
Subsequently, Liang Yan chose to continue her studies, she studied journalism at the Central Renmin University, and when the reporter interviewed her, he asked: "Why do you want to study this major?" ”
Liang Yan said: "I just want to experience another life. ”
From the age of 14 to the time she retired at the age of 25, the focus of her life was all on volleyball.
For her, the most fortunate thing is that she has paid enough sweat for the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has finally given her unlimited glory.
Although she left at the peak of the women's volleyball team, it did not leave her many regrets, because she had almost obtained everything she wanted.
During college, Liang Yan's homework was done very well, because when she went to school, she was older than many of her classmates, so there were still some discomforts in school, but Liang Yan, who had an optimistic personality, not only quickly overcame this discomfort, but also quickly became a good friend with everyone.
In her spare time, she would also return to the court with her classmates again to pick up the volleyball she loved, and it was at this time that she met her later partner.
Therefore, as Liang Yan said, her university life is of great significance to her, and she seems to have chosen the right direction at every intersection of her life, but the truth is that whether the direction is correct or not, going straight forward will go out of her own way.
After graduation, Liang Yan came to work for New Sports magazine, and in the eyes of everyone, this job was a good career for Liang Yan at that time, which was related to her interests and common to her major.
Most importantly, Liang Yan, who used to spend all her energy on volleyball training, has always been very guilty about not having enough time to spend with her family.
And now, in her spare time, she can not only juggle her career and family, but also leave more time to pursue her other possibilities, Liang Yan's daughter said, "My mother's favorite sport is volleyball, but she can't play volleyball later, she likes to fish." ”
It can be seen that Liang Yan, who started again, made up for the regrets when playing volleyball, and had more time to gossip and share the heavens.
The encouragement of Liang Yan and others gave great encouragement to the women's volleyball players, and in the subsequent world competitions, Liang Yan also went to the competition venue many times to watch the game, and she also put forward a lot of valuable advice to her teachers and sisters.
According to her own words, whether it is playing volleyball or doing magazines, she will do her best, and perhaps this is the important reason why she can become a unique "five champions", because she will do her best as long as she has one thing to do.
In 1995, 34-year-old Liang Yan decided to go to the sea to do business because of a chance, and began another journey of her own.
She told reporters: "I like to change, not very suitable for nine-to-five work, before being an athlete was too tired, want to change a free way of life." ”
So, in the same year, Liang Yan founded her own sports culture media company, and she began to run various businesses with the help of her experience and contacts.
At the beginning, Liang Yan, who first dabbled in the mall, also fell a lot, but everything did not stop her steps, and with the support of her personal efforts and social environment, Liang Yan's company quickly found its own development direction and began to have stable revenue.
With the expansion of the company's business, Liang Yan's focus of life has also changed, she began to run at home and abroad, and even sometimes busier than when she first played volleyball, but despite this, she still enjoyed it.
Liang Yan's husband called her a "challenger", always scrappy, and the more difficult the mountain, the more competitive she was.
The fact is indeed as he said, in the face of difficulties in the mall, Liang Yan always faces difficulties, and the result of things always ends with her big victory, which belongs to the style of "Black Pearl".
Liang Yan's company's efficiency has increased year after year, which has also made Liang Yan gain a lot, as of now, this former volleyball female player is now a rich woman worth more than 100 million.
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However, since 2004, Liang Yan has gradually begun to fade from the public's attention, according to the meaning of her previous interviews, probably because her mother is not in good health, and she wants to spend more time with her mother.
Liang Yan began to play volleyball at the age of 14, and then because of her excellent results, she was selected into the city team, provincial team, national team, until she finally became the "five champions", and almost all of her time in her youth was spent on volleyball, so in the case of successful career and old mother, Liang Yan made the decision to return to her family.
On August 19, 2004, Liang Yan's last public appearance was to be invited to participate in a show called Sohu Star Online, in which the host asked a lot of questions related to her volleyball career to her later entrepreneurial experience, and Liang Yan also gave answers.
She believes that the arena is like a battlefield, more than skill, more than psychology, athletes should adjust their mentality on the field, focus on their own actions, and do not want too much to win the championship and get the rank.
Perhaps this is also the experience that Liang Yan wants to teach to the latecomers as a former women's volleyball predecessor, in her view, the most important process of the game, rather than the final single result, if you care too much about the ranking, perhaps the result will be counterproductive.
In addition, Liang Yan also indicated in the program that her next plan is to shift the focus of her life to the family and accompany the elderly, and she hopes to be able to take her mother to all parts of the motherland to see, take a walk, and enjoy more of China's mountain and river scenery.
Liang Yan in the show is wearing a beautiful dress, smiling confidently, falling generously, no one will believe that she is already forty-three years old, and when it came to the final question and answer session, the host asked her what was the most regrettable thing recently, Liang Yan said with some pride and some regret:
"I've spent too little time with my daughter in the past few years... Even so, she still grew up very well. ”
In 2014, Liang Yan announced on social platforms that her daughter was 26 years old and had obtained a doctorate degree from Tsinghua University, and once the news came out, everyone had blessed her, and after ten years, Liang Yan once again completed another goal in her life.
Perhaps in order to let her daughter grow up and live better, Liang Yan has rarely let her appear in the spotlight, and she is not the same as her former teammates, she did not cultivate her daughter's love for volleyball from an early age, on the contrary, she gave her daughter a great space of freedom, so that she can start from the heart to do what she likes.
Perhaps this is also the reason why Liang Yan can walk so smoothly at every stage of her life, she does not task herself to love something, she will cling to it all her life, on the contrary, she adheres to the concept that when I do this, I will do my best, and if I choose another direction, I will definitely stride forward.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="85" > always pay attention to the Chinese women's volleyball team</h1>
As we all know, after five consecutive championships, due to the successive retirement of the main members of the women's volleyball team due to injury, the Chinese women's volleyball team began to decline, and Liang Yan, who has retired, also pays attention to the situation of the women's volleyball team.
Just when the outside world has raised criticism and questions about her successors, Liang Yan has spoken out with her former friends many times:
She believes that in the later competition, the Chinese women's volleyball team failed to continue the glory of the five consecutive championships for various reasons, should not put all the responsibility on the athletes, Chinese athletes are progressing, the world athletes are also, the spirit of the women's volleyball team has never left, and we should give these young girls more tolerance.
Although Liang Yan no longer appears in the public's field of vision, but occasional news circulates, you can see the traces of her happy life, and the glory and glory she has witnessed will always remain in everyone's heart.
Today's Liang Yan is no longer young, but her spirit has always been young, she has played a variety of roles in her life, some roles are famous and well-known, and some roles are unknown, but no matter which role, it is an indispensable part of Liang Yan's life.