Boxing in Weifang (5)
Liu Dong
The first breakthrough in Chinese boxing, the seventh place in the first Olympic Games in Chinese boxing, the first international champion of boxing in China, and the head coach of the boxing team of Weifang Sports School.
Photo of Liu Dong in 1988
Liu Dong, born in 1968 in Weifang, Shandong, was a former worker in Weifang Switch Factory, he was not tall, with a flat head, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, Weifang dialect is a axle man, is a good material for martial arts training.
He has loved sports since he was a child, and when he went to school in Weifang No. 2 Middle School, he played football very well, his mind was smart, his reaction was extremely fast, his explosive power was particularly strong, and he was extremely athletically talented.
Photo of Liu Dong's competition in 1986
In 1985, when Mr. Yu Bingheng held a boxing training class at Weifang Stadium, Liu Dong began boxing training, because of his great athletic talent, he was superior in boxing technology and physical fitness, and soon came to prominence in the study class, becoming the best in this group.
Before the country fully resumed boxing, boxing exchange activities were carried out between cities, and he represented Weifang in the Dalian Jinzhou Cup, Henan Luoyang Peony Cup, and Weifang National Boxing Elite Competition, all of which won the championship and runner-up.
Under the recommendation of Cheng Wudang and Yu Bingheng, the authority of Chinese boxing, Professor Zhang Lide of Shanghai Sports Academy has a wise eye to recognize heroes.
In 1986, Teacher Cheng Wudang and Liu Dong took a group photo
In October 1986, Liu Dongxuan was transferred to the Boxing Team of Shanghai Sports Academy to participate in the training camp, which was the first athlete sent by the Weifang Boxing Research Association.
Photo of Liu Dong in the 1987 national competition
Under the careful guidance of teacher Zhang Lide, he trained hard, was diligent in using his brain, and his technical level and practical combat ability improved by leaps and bounds, and he soon won the first and second places in the national competition many times.
Photo of Liu Dong at the national competition in 1987
In 1988, he was selected into the national team, received guidance and training from coaches such as Wang Guojun, Wang Shouxin, Xu Jinsheng, Yang Jinliang and other coaches and experts from the former Soviet Union, greatly improved in boxing skills and physical fitness, and became the main backbone of the national team.
Group photo of The Chinese Boxing Team in 1988
On September 17, 1988, the National Sports Commission, with Zeng Qun as the team leader, Wang Guojun as the coach, Wang Weiping and Liu Dong as the team members, formed the national boxing team and participated in the 24th Olympic Games held in Seoul, South Korea.
Group photo of the Chinese boxing team participating in the Olympic Games in 1988
This is the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China that Chinese appeared in the Olympic boxing ring, and it is also the first appearance on the international stage since China resumed boxing in 1986.
The famous cross-talk actor Feng Gong sent off the Chinese delegation
Liu Dong lived up to expectations, had the courage to fight, gave full play to his technical and tactical advantages, passed the level and entered the quarterfinals, and played the ambition and prestige of Chinese, which was a major breakthrough in the history of Chinese boxing.
Liu Dong won the Olympic games
As the first Weifang athlete to reach the top eight in the Olympic boxing ring, Liu Dong also won the glory of Weifang and improved the popularity of Weifang in the national boxing circle.
Modern amateur boxing became an official sport at the 3rd Olympic Games in St. Louis, USA, in 1904.
Boxing has a broad mass base in the world, many countries have boxing sports courses from primary school, and the Olympic Games have been included in the official competition for a hundred years.
After the founding of New China, in the 1950s, there were professional boxing team training in various provinces and cities, and in 1953, 1956, 1957, and 1958, national boxing competitions were held successively, and in 1959, they stopped for some reason and resumed in 1986, and Boxing was banned in China for 27 years. During this period, only boxing enthusiasts practiced in the folk.
In 1986, boxing was resumed, which was first piloted in fifteen units, and after the 1988 Olympic Games, professional teams began to be set up in various provinces and cities for training.
Liu Dong represents the national team in international competitions
When Liu Dong participated in the Olympic boxing competition, he only had more than two years of professional training to represent China in the Olympic Games and reach the top eight, which was very remarkable!
Because of the stagnation of Boxing in China in a special period, Liu Dong's competition is an amateur athlete to compete with professional athletes, and the result of getting the seventh place is very remarkable, and now in retrospect, it can even be described as amazing.
Photo of Liu Dong when he participated in an international competition
Now, starting from primary schools and middle schools, grass-roots sports schools have set up professional teams, starting from participating in municipal competitions, and gradually to provincial and national competitions, during which they must participate in countless competitions and accumulate a lot of competition experience in order to go to the national team to represent the Chinese team to participate in international competitions.
In 2017, the first national team coach Wang Guojun took a group photo with Liu Dong
Liu Dong also became China's first international boxing athlete because of this breakthrough in the Seoul Olympic Games, and he is the pride of Weifang boxing.
2017 national team coach Li Qingsheng and Liu Dong took a group photo
Du Wenjie and Liu Dong, famous Chinese boxing commentators in 2017, took a group photo
After the athlete retired, Liu Dong was concerned about boxing, obsessively, acting as a boxing coach, using scientific teaching methods, combining his many years of training experience and teaching experience.
Liu Dong poses with Olympic boxing champion Zou Shiming
Liu Dong in the training of coaching team members
It has provided a large number of outstanding boxing talents for higher-level professional teams and colleges and universities, and continues to contribute to the cause of Boxing in China