On the stage of gymnastics, she was once an unrivaled queen, and every time she jumped, she led Chinese gymnastics to the top of the world. However, behind the halo, Cheng Fei's career has not been smooth sailing. A sudden injury pulls the gymnastics queen off her favorite stage.
25 years old is the prime of life for many people, but for Cheng Fei, this year has become the end of her career. The injury to the Achilles tendon not only means a long absence, but also directly announces her retirement. The glory of the field is gone, and the weight gain has put the former queen of gymnastics with a new challenge.
People wonder how she will face this sudden change? Cheng Fei's story is far from over.
Childhood discovery and growth
In 1988, Cheng Fei was born in an ordinary family in Huangshi City, Hubei Province, and both parents were engaged in the occupation of workers. Despite their modest living conditions, they had high hopes for their daughter's future, prompting Cheng Fei to be exposed to sports at a very young age. At the local Huangshi Amateur Sports School, her parents hope to enhance Cheng Fei's physique and strengthen her physical fitness through table tennis training.
Although it was unforeseeable at first, this decision opened up an extraordinary path for Cheng Fei's gymnastics career. At the beginning of the transfer to gymnastics training, Cheng Fei's coach Ke Jin found that she had outstanding performance in body coordination and flexibility, and quickly introduced her to Coach Yao Juying, and engaged in professional gymnastics training.
In the following years, Cheng Fei was like a fish in water in gymnastics. The high-level training environment of Wuhan Sports Institute has provided her with the soil for growth and training, and Cheng Fei's skills have improved rapidly and gradually achieved remarkable results. In the years of training at the Wuhan Sports Institute, Cheng Fei gradually showed her outstanding talent in the gymnastics field.
Whether it is in terms of strength, speed or skill, Cheng Fei has shown qualities beyond ordinary people. Under the guidance of coach Zhao Hanhua, she quickly grew into an excellent gymnast, and won a series of good results in the senior group in a short period of time.
Cheng Fei's progress has not only attracted attention in China, but also began to cause a sensation in the international gymnastics community. When she was only 11 years old, she was selected for the Hubei provincial team, and at the age of 14, she was selected for the Chinese national team. After rigorous selection and training, Cheng Fei began to write a brilliant chapter in her career as an athlete.
She has achieved excellent results in national and international competitions, and has become a rising star in the field of gymnastics at home and abroad. Cheng Fei, who competes in the international arena, does her best to pursue perfect performance in every competition.
In the 2003 Asian Junior Gymnastics Championships, Cheng Fei achieved amazing results, winning wide recognition and praise for her series of precise and creative difficult movements. These victories not only brought her personal honor, but also added a glorious page to the Chinese gymnastics career.
Cheng Fei's rapid rise in the gymnastics world has impressed people with her professionalism and dedication at the age of 14. Cheng Fei's rise to fame in Japan laid a solid foundation for her subsequent career, which she went on to win at the Asian Championships and other international competitions.
The hard work is well deserved
In the days when Cheng Fei joined the Hubei provincial team, every day of her was full of hard training and strict guidance. With a focus on strength, speed and technique, she has progressed in all aspects of gymnastics. The coach of the Hubei provincial team expressed high praise for her talent and potential in guiding Cheng Fei's training.
They used professional vision and precise teaching methods to enable Cheng Fei to continue to make steady progress on the road of gymnastics. However, Cheng Fei was not satisfied with his performance in the provincial competition. Her ultimate goal is to showcase her talents on the international stage and win honor for China.
When she was 14 years old, the opportunity finally came. She was selected for the Chinese national team, thus entering a bigger and more challenging stage. With the help of her national team coaches and teammates, she gave her all to train to improve her technique, strength and speed.
In 2003, Cheng Fei stepped on the international arena for the first time. The tournament was held in Japan, and all the athletes said it was their hardest competition to date. However, Cheng Fei excelled in the competition, not only successfully performing all the moves, but also showing amazing strength and skill.
Her superb skills and excellent performance made her the highlight of the competition. Cheng Fei's success did not make her lose herself in material comforts and glory. On the contrary, these successes only fueled her greater ambition and increased her determination on the path of gymnastics.
She knows that only by constantly improving herself and becoming a truly world-class athlete can she succeed in the challenges ahead. With each gorgeous competition, Cheng Fei's position in the gymnastics world has become more solid, and she has been praised by the public as the "Queen of Gymnastics", a title that symbolizes her immortal status in the gymnastics world and the honor she deserves.
The road to award-winning events
Since making her international debut in 2003, she has continued to win major tournaments, proving her extraordinary strength and skill. In particular, her unique innovation in the vault event, "Cheng Fei Jump", once became the focus and topic of the gymnastics world.
This kind of technical action, perfected and demonstrated by Cheng Fei himself, is highly difficult and artistic. The completion of the "Cheng Fei Jump" not only requires extremely high body coordination and explosiveness, but also requires athletes to accurately control their movements in the air.
Cheng Fei not only performed this action with ease, but also performed stably in many important international competitions, winning the championship many times, making "Cheng Fei Jump" a landmark achievement of Chinese gymnastics. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Cheng Fei participated in the world's largest sports event for the first time.
Although she didn't stand at the top of the podium in the final result, Cheng Fei's performance confirmed her world-class competitive skills. After that, Cheng Fei won the women's vault final at the 38th World Gymnastics Championships held in Melbourne, Australia in 2005, and she became famous in the competition, with a high score of 9.656 that once again shocked the gymnastics world.
As a core member of the Chinese gymnastics team, Cheng Fei not only won glory with her individual talents, but also worked together with her teammates in the team event to accumulate medals for the Chinese team one by one. She went on to compete in high-level international competitions such as the World Gymnastics Championships and the Olympic Games, winning multiple gold medals, including in the women's team event and the individual all-around event.
Not only in the vault event, Cheng Fei also showed excellent skills in other events such as uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise, becoming a representative of all-rounders. Her many victories in various international competitions have greatly enhanced the influence of Chinese gymnastics on the world stage and contributed to the development of national sports.
Pain: Glory is gone
She has put in countless efforts for gymnastics, but she also inevitably faces the threat of sports injuries. When you are young, your body is resilient, and minor injuries and illnesses often don't become major problems. However, as he grew older and his training intensity increased, injuries gradually became a problem that Cheng Fei could not ignore.
At the age of 25, Cheng Fei suffered the worst Achilles tendon injury of her career, which not only caused her pain, but also forced her to face the reality that she was about to end her career as a gymnast. Faced with such a challenge, Cheng Fei had to make the difficult decision to announce his retirement. But Cheng Fei did not lose herself because of this.
Even in the face of the double test of body and mind, she remained optimistic. This attitude shows her strong heart and her ability to face life's challenges with optimism even after her career as an athlete.
Cheng Fei's story is the story of how an outstanding athlete can continue to move forward with a smile and courage in the face of physical limits and the end of his career. Her attitude and spirit are a huge inspiration not only for future athletes, but also for all those who face challenges.
Although Cheng Fei's gymnastics career has come to an end, her spirit and story will be remembered forever.
Retire with optimism and enjoy life
For Cheng Fei, retiring does not mean quitting the gymnastics world. After retiring from the army, she began to pass on her experience and knowledge to the next generation, becoming a gymnastics coach and working as a teacher at the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. In this new role, Cheng Fei remains professional and passionate about nurturing young gymnasts, sharing her skills and gymnastics philosophy, and unleashing the potential of a new generation of athletes.
Through her own experiences, Cheng Fei has imparted many valuable experiences to young athletes, which are invaluable assets for them. Cheng Fei is also involved in the popularization of gymnastics, advocating for the sport and encouraging the wider community to get involved in the sport.
She popularized the value of gymnastics through various ways and platforms, emphasized the importance of gymnastics to improve one's physical fitness and fitness, and encouraged people to try and enjoy gymnastics regardless of age. After retiring, Cheng Fei's weight increased due to long-term medication, a change that attracted the public's attention.
For this point, Cheng Fei has always maintained a calm and confident attitude. She wasn't ashamed or depressed by the change in weight, nor did she try to lose weight drastically because of outside attention. Instead, she embraced her changes and continued to find and create joy and fulfillment in her new state of life.
Cheng Fei's retirement life is a new chapter, and she continues to work the hot land of gymnastics as a teacher. Every day, she proves to people that even if the aura of the arena is gone, a heart with a love for gymnastics and a love of life can still shine with a unique light.
Through her own experience and hard work, Cheng Fei continues to become the object of admiration and respect, a real gymnastics queen.
Resources:
"The Glorious Years and Turning Point of Gymnastics Empress Cheng Fei"
"Winged Angel: Cheng Fei's Injury and Comeback"
Stars of Gymnastics: Chinese Gymnastics from Cheng Fei to the Post-Cheng Fei Era