Zhang Juanjuan, born in 1981 in a small village in Qingdao, Shandong Province, when she was a child, no matter how she looked and archery, she did not have an edge, her skeleton was wide and strong, like a boy, by the fifth grade of primary school, Zhang Juanjuan had grown to one meter 64 and was admitted to a self-school.
At the beginning, her coach saw that she was very strong and asked her to practice discus throwing, but the performance did not increase quickly after practice and did not work, and the coach advised her to change a project.
At that time, the shooting coach Gao Xiuying took a fancy to Zhang Juanjuan and thought she was a good seedling, so he asked Zhang Juanjuan if she would like to follow her to practice shooting, which also laid a good foundation for Zhang Juanjuan to practice archery later.
Gao Xiuying was also surprised after coming to the shooting team, although Zhang Juanjuan looked like she had nothing to do with shooting sports, but she was easy to calm down and concentrate, which was a rare talent for shooting and archery.
Later, one day, Qu Yuefeng, the coach of the Qingdao Archery Team, came to the city where Zhang Juanjuan was, met Zhang Juanjuan by chance, felt that Zhang Juanjuan was a malleable talent, and asked Zhang Juanjuan if she would like to practice archery with her.
At that time, Zhang Juanjuan did not know what archery was, and for her at that time, as long as she could continue her sports career. Zhang Juanjuan also mentioned many times in a later interview: "It is not the archery I chose, but the archery that chose me." ”
At that time, even if the sport of archery is not known to many people in China now, the scope of popularization is very narrow, and Zhang Juanjuan is like being born with archery, archery is a very sharpening sport, many people will feel that archery is too boring to stick to it.
Zhang Juanjuan is an exception, archery is like catnip to cat, will be addicted to "addicted", the more practiced the more unable to extricate herself. Since then, Zhang Juanjuan has not been limited to continuing to practice sports as before, but wants to achieve something on the road of archery.
After entering the archery team, Zhang Juanjuan almost never returned home, and could only rely on phone calls or letters to contact her home, coupled with very difficult training, many people could not accept the choice to quit.
And this is nothing for Zhang Juanjuan, who came from the countryside, and she has already experienced physical suffering.
It is also the rural origin that makes Zhang Juanjuan have a kind of simplicity that others do not have, never buy cosmetics, and when she gets money, she also sends money to her family to let her brother go to school, and her young age is as sensible as an adult.
In the first few days of archery, Zhang Juanjuan did not see the bow and arrow at all, her coach let her practice the posture, one practice is two days, two days later there is still no bow, what appears in her hand is a rubber strip, in order to let Zhang Juanjuan and her teammates can pull the bow and exercise strength.
Every day is a day, and the only sound of the big sun overhead is the roar of the coach's admonition and the sound of the coach taking a fly to help the team members fight mosquitoes.
But even if Zhang Juanjuan can calm her heart for a long time, it will be a little impetuous, until one day a team member couldn't help but ask the coach why he didn't let them touch the bow, the coach didn't speak after listening, but took out a bow for them to try one by one, unsurprisingly, no one pulled away.
Since then, Zhang Juanjuan's somewhat impetuous heart has been solidified again, and then the coach finally let the players touch the bow, and they have to pull the bow three hundred times a day and each time the bow is stagnant, and the huge amount of training has made Zhang Juanjuan suffer a huge blow.
Coupled with the fact that Zhang Juanjuan's freshness in archery was slowly passing at that time, for a while she would often call home to say that she couldn't hold on and wanted to go home, and her parents advised her that if she came from a rural area, she could do anything but suffer hardships, and she dared to suffer hardships.
After being persuaded by her parents, Zhang Juanjuan never thought of giving up since then, and threw her whole body into training, and her archery performance began to improve steadily.
Soon after, Zhang Juanjuan was recommended to enter the provincial team, but people will always encounter many setbacks in their lives, and Zhang Juanjuan will have a lot of "yellow heart disease" that is difficult for archery team members to survive soon after entering the provincial team.
"Yellow heart disease" as the name suggests is that when the archer aims at the yellow heart of the bullseye, the bow will shake uncontrollably, and Zhang Juanjuan spent two years to defeat the yellow heart disease.
Her method of defeating yellow heart disease is also very simple and direct, that is, she keeps practicing, practicing in those two years, every day except eating and sleeping Zhang Juanjuan is training in the training ground.
Later, in the provincial competition "Hope Cup" shortly after, it won eight of the ten competitions.
In 2001, Zhang Juanjuan deservedly entered the national team, began to study in the national team, and just entered the national team because of her excellent archery skills Zhang Juanjuan was selected to participate in the World Archery Championships.
There are many world famous players competing with her on the same stage this time, and even if she does not get a place in this competition, it is also an important accumulation of experience for Zhang Juanjuan.
To everyone's surprise, in the individual competition, only Zhang Juanjuan entered the top eight of the entire Chinese team, and she had the opportunity to impact the higher ranking, but she stayed in the eighth place because of the accidental fall of the arrow tail.
In the face of failure, Zhang Juanjuan was not discouraged or angry, but encouraged herself and her teammates, and saw the strength of others, so she had to train harder.
Although the Chinese team lost all the players in the previous individual competition, in the later team competition, Zhang Juanjuan was not affected by the previous defeat but calmly coped, and won the team championship with her teammates. But that's not enough, and China needs an Olympic gold medal.
Back to the training team Zhang Juanjuan began the road to prepare for the Olympics, from childhood to adulthood, she almost did not have an entertainment life, every day is the training ground and dormitory two points and one line of days, after entering the national team Zhang Juanjuan's time was arranged to death.
Occasionally, when Zhang Juanjuan comes home to rest, she stays at home and does not go out to face the hard-won opportunity to rest, and she prefers to sleep well at home.
In the blink of an eye, the time came to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Juanjuan knew that this was her best chance to win the championship, when the national anthem sounded, Zhang Juanjuan broke the undefeated myth of Korean archery with a slight advantage of one ring, and defeated Park Sung-hyun, who was also a favorite to win the championship.
Zhang Juanjuan successfully led the Chinese women's archery team to win the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese women's archery.
In the face of the trough of life, she has not given up, but persistently worked hard, it is the spirit of not accepting defeat and not giving up that allows her to achieve her life goals, such achievements are enough to record Zhang Juanjuan in the history of Chinese archery.