Male and female are the most common way of family combination in Chinese society, and older boys are generally considered to be able to take better care of girls, but once the age gap between men and women is too large, becoming a "father-daughter love" will be questioned by others, either "old cows eat tender grass" or "women value the man's money and power". But marriage is like drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge, in the Chinese sports world there are many "old husbands and young wives" combination, after the precipitation of time, they each live the life they want.
Nie Weiping (23 years older than his wife)
Nie Weiping, born on August 17, 1952 in Hebei, was awarded the title of "Chess Saint" by the State Sports Commission and the China Weiqi Association in 1988, and was named "Top Ten Outstanding Figures in the New Chinese Chess World" in 1999. Nie Weiping's peak years were in the China-Japan Go tournament in the 1980s, when he was re-elected as the chinese team leader for several consecutive years, making a great contribution to the chinese team's consecutive victories.
The 63-year-old Nie Weiping has experienced three marriages, and his first wife, Kong Xiangming, was born in Chengdu on September 10, 1955, and is a generation of chinese chess women. In the autumn of 1979, Nie Weiping and Kong Xiangming registered their marriage, in 1981 the eldest son Kong Lingwen was born, and in March 1991, the marriage between the two came to an end, and the desperate Kong Xiangming went to Japan.
Nie Weiping's second wife, Wang Jing, is the sister of the famous actor Wang Gang, four years younger than Nie Weiping. Nie Weiping cheated on Wang Jing in marriage, and in 1991, Wang Jing became pregnant, Nie Weiping divorced Kong Xiangming, and then married Wang Jing, and three months later his second son Nie Yunqing was born. But both were busy, didn't have much time to exchange feelings, and disagreed on housework and children's education, and the two finally broke up in 2000, ending their marriage for more than eight years.
Nie Weiping's third wife, Lan Liya, a native of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, was born in 1975 and was 23 years younger than Nie Weiping. Lan Liya learned Go when she was a child and has always admired Nie Weiping, the "hero of the ring game". And her acquaintance with Nie Weiping was made by a leading cadre in Guiyang City. Since they met in April 2001, Nie Weiping took the initiative to launch an offensive for Lanlia. In June, a romantic relationship was established. Subsequently, Lan Liya also quit her job in Shanghai and came to Beijing with Nie Weiping. On August 8, 2001, the opening day of the Guiyang Go Festival, the two walked hand in hand on the red carpet. In 2004, Nie Weiping and Lan Liya's daughter was born and named Nie Yunfei.
Shi Zhihao (23 years older than his wife)
Shi Zhihao, born on September 26, 1959 in Shanghai, the "capital of China's table tennis", went to Beijing at the age of 13 and began to enter the Bayi team. In the 1978 national competition, shi Zhihao, who was 19 years old at the time, defeated the national team master Guo Yuehua and became a hit, and then entered the national team.
Shi Zhihao also experienced two marriages, her first wife was table tennis world champion Cao Yanhua. Because the table tennis team was not allowed to fall in love that year, the two have always been in an underground relationship, and after the relationship was exposed, Shi Zhihao was adjusted to the national team. In 1986, after the 23-year-old Cao Yanhua won two gold medals at the 38th World Table Tennis Championships, he chose to retire and marry Shi Zhihao. After marriage, Cao Yanhua followed Shi Zhihao to Japan and Germany, where she gave birth to a son, Shi Zexi.
After ten years of wandering in Germany, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua returned to Shanghai to start a new life. Shi Zhihao became the coach, and Cao Yanhua opened a table tennis club. In 1997, Cai Zhenhua invited Shi Zhihao to coach in the national team, but Cao Yanhua's career in Shanghai was in full swing, and she did not want to give up her career. Helplessly, Shi Zhihao went to Beijing alone. In this way, the marriage of the two people appeared estranged, neither of them refused to give up their careers for each other, the two often quarreled until the feelings were exhausted, in early 2000, the couple agreed to hide from their son and parents, and quietly went through the divorce procedures.
Shi Zhihao's second wife was former table tennis player Li Nan. Li Nan, a native of Tianjin, was born on June 17, 1982. She began playing at the age of 7, joining the provincial team in 1995 and the national team in 1996. Li Nan and Shi Zhihao met in 1997, Shi Zhihao is Li Nan's supervisor coach, and li Nan is more of a father's care. In 2004, Li Nan was adjusted out of the national team because of his love affair with Hou Yingchao, and a few months later, the two returned to the national team, but at this time, they were already in love. Li Nan has a kind of admiration and dependence on Shi Zhihao, telling him everything, and he can't tell when the relationship between the two began. In 2008, when Shi Zhihao was preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games under the greatest pressure, Li Nan gave him spiritual encouragement. Li Nan's character of daring to love and dare to hate gave Shi Zhihao great confidence, and the two decided to bravely face this year-old love. On December 26, 2010, Shi Zhihao and Li Nan registered their marriage in Tianjin. On May 30, 2012, the daughter of the two was born, the baby's nickname was Xiaoxiao, and the big name was Shi Zenan.
Zhang Yining (20 years younger than her husband)
Born in Beijing in 1981, Zhang Yining began playing at the age of 6, joining the Beijing team in 1991 and the national team in 1993. In a career spanning more than two decades, he has completed two Grand Slams, an unprecedented achievement. Zhang Yining won 19 world championships together in the three major competitions, surpassing Deng Yaping, in fact, 4 gold in the Olympic Games and 2 gold in singles in the World Table Tennis Championships.
Zhang Yining's husband is Xu Wei, a financial talent who is 20 years older than himself. Xu Wei is a typical "Diamond King Old Five", a Beijinger, who has studied overseas, mainly engaged in financial work, has his own career in Beijing and Hong Kong, a successful person in the Hong Kong business community, who has a number of listed companies and a rich and substantial net worth.
On October 18, 2009, the two married in Beijing. The wedding is full of mysterious atmosphere, and even the security and wedding personnel involved in the wedding process have signed confidentiality agreements. In 2012, Zhang Yining gave birth to a 3-kilogram "little dragon girl" in Hong Kong, and was promoted to hot mother. On the evening of December 31, 2014, Zhang Yining was interviewed for the first time after retiring from retirement, saying the reasons for retiring that year, "At that time, playing the Complete Games, it was exactly a node, for athletes, this means that a milestone has been completed and a good end has been drawn." With the growth of her daughter, Zhang Yining gradually returned to the sports circle.
Fu Mingxia (27 years younger than her husband)
Fu Mingxia was born on August 16, 1978 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. In 1990, Fu Mingxia was selected for the Chinese diving team. At the Barcelona Olympics in July 1992, at the age of 14, Fu Mingxia won the gold medal in the women's 10-meter platform, becoming the youngest champion in Olympic history. The most brilliant is that at the Atlanta Olympic Games four years later, Fu Mingxia won both the women's 10-meter platform and the women's 3-meter board, becoming the first board double champion in the history of China's Olympic diving. Four years later, Fu Mingxia, who came back after a brief retirement at the Olympics, defended the Olympic gold medal in the women's singles 3m board in Sydney. Fu Mingxia, who has participated in three consecutive Olympic Games and won four gold medals, has become the undisputed diving queen.
After the Sydney Olympics, 22-year-old Fu Mingxia chose to retire. On March 1, 2001, the 23-year-old Fu Mingxia was invited to attend the annual Hong Kong "Outstanding Leaders" Awards Ceremony held in Hong Kong and served as the guest of honor. She met Leung Kam-sung, then 50, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, and quickly began a relationship. This relationship was sensational in Hong Kong and mainland China due to the special status and disparity in age between the two.
It is said that Liang Jinsong did not hesitate to give up the position of director for this love. In July 2002, Fu Mingxia and Liang Jinsong held a wedding in Hawaii, USA. After marriage, the two had a daughter and two sons. The eldest daughter, Liang Siyu, was born in 2003, and the second son, Liang Haojia, and the youngest son, were born in 2004 and 2008 respectively. After marriage, Fu Mingxia lived a leisurely life and occasionally appeared to participate in some charity activities.
Chen Yanqing (21 years younger than her husband)
Chen Yanqing was born in May 1979. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Chen Yanqing won the gold medal in the 58 kg women's weightlifting category with a total of 107.5 kg in the snatch, 130 kg in the deadlift, and a total of 237.5 kg; four years later in the Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Yanqing successfully defended the gold medal and broke the Olympic record of the deadlift and the total result of 244 kg with a total score of 106 kg and 138 kg in the snatch.
After the Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Yanqing officially retired. Chen Yanqing graduated from soochow university business school in July 2007 with a bachelor's degree in business administration and later pursued a master's degree in educational psychology at soochow university's school of education, in fact, Chen Yanqing was appointed deputy director of the Suzhou Municipal Sports Bureau in 2007, when she was the youngest division-level cadre in Suzhou. In June 2010, Chen Yanqing's coach Cao Xinmin was disqualified from coaching due to the Doping incident of the Suzhou Women's Weightlifting Team, and it was at this time that Chen Yanqing married his coach, Cao Xinmin, who was 21 years older, and soon became pregnant with a child. Chen Yanqing and Cao Xinmin's marriage was quite low-key, and the wedding was very simple, only a few relatives and friends were invited to their hometown Xishan to eat a wedding feast. Chen Yanqing said that her relationship with the coach was a natural thing within the plan, and although some people objected, she was very firm.
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