On April 28, Beijing time, Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian ushered in his outdoor season debut at the East Coast Relay Race in the United States. This is the first time in 449 days since the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene that Su Bingtian is once again standing on the starting line of the 100-meter track. Despite the favorable conditions of super wind speed, he still ran only 10.50 seconds, ranking fifth in the group and 29th overall.
However, in the men's 4x100m relay competition, he and Xie Zhenye, Wu Zhiqiang and Chen Jiapeng formed a team to win the championship with a good time of 38.28 seconds.
Looking back on Su Bingtian's career, his story is full of inspiration and emotion. From his association with sprinting in junior high school to his first formal competition at the age of 15, Su Bingtian's sprinting path seems destined to be extraordinary. Even though he hit a low point in the early days of the professional team and even considered retiring, he persevered with the support of his coach and family and ended the season in 2009 with 11 gold medals for the year.
Su's perseverance and hard work paid off, as he helped the Chinese relay team win Asia for the first time in 20 years in 2010, rewrote the national record in 2011, and became the first Chinese athlete to beat the United States in the men's 100m senior international competition at the Olympics. In 2015, he ran the 10-second mark for the first time and set the best time in the history of the Chinese team with his teammates at the World Championships in Beijing.
Although contemplating retirement in 2017, Su Bingtian chose to overcome himself and return to the competition, where he continued to achieve great results, including gold at the Asian Games in Jakarta with a time of 9.92 seconds and an astonishing time of 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first Chinese athlete to reach the Olympic men's 100m final.
However, as he grew older, he also faced the challenge of declining function and increasing injuries. After the defeat at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, he rarely competed, but his love of sprinting led him to start again, but this time, at the age of 35, it seems that he has become an insurmountable chasm.
But no matter what, today's Su Bingtian, behind many leaders or hundreds of millions of fans, is like a god who descends the mountain, and the series of legendary achievements he has created still make people respect.