The 32nd Summer Olympics in Tokyo are in full swing, with China currently ranked Third in the gold medal table with six gold medals. When it comes to the Olympic Games in previous years, Guangdong is a strong gold medal province, and in the province, the Chaoshan region is a region that produces more gold medals.
So, what are the Olympic champions in the history of the Chaoshan region? Let's take a quick look.
First: Sun Shuwei.
As a post-70s boy born in Jieyang City, he won the men's 10m platform gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, which was also the first athlete in Chaoshan to win an Olympic gold medal and the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese swimming.
Second place: Lin Yue.
Born in Chaozhou City, he won the men's 10m double gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is also the first Chaoshan athlete to win two gold medals at the Olympic Games.
Third place: Fu Haifeng.
He is also a jieyang male badminton player who has won gold medals in the men's doubles of badminton at the London Olympics and the Rio Olympics. He is another Chaoshan athlete who won the double Olympic championship after Lin Yue.
Fourth place: Guo Weiyang (born in Chaoshan, born in Chaoshan, training is not in Chaoshan)
His ancestral home is shantou, but he was born in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, where he won the men's gymnastics team gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
Fifth place: Zhang Yanquan (birthplace is not in Chaoshan, born in Chaoshan, training in Chaoshan)
The diving Olympic champion is from Tai Po County, Meizhou City, but he was born in Chaozhou City and won the gold medal in the men's doubles 10m platform at the 2012 London Olympics.
Sixth place: Ma Lin (birthplace is not in Chaoshan, birth is not in Chaoshan, training is in Chaoshan)
Ma Lin is also an athlete whose ancestral home is not in Chaoshan and was not born in Chaoshan, but he is the "Mr. World Cup" who went out of the Chaoshan region, and he has won 18 world championships, including the men's doubles champion at the Athens Olympic Games, the men's team champion at the Beijing Olympic Games and the men's singles champion.
Seventh place: Hu Jia (birthplace is not in Chaoshan, birth is not in Chaoshan, training is in Chaoshan)
The diving star Hu Jia is also not from the Chaoshan region, but only trained in the Chaoshan region, and finally won the men's 10-meter platform diving championship at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Have you found that these seven "Olympic champions from the Chaoshan region" are all male compatriots, so we are very much looking forward to the emergence of some female compatriots.
In addition to our business in Chaoshan area, we also have a lot of achievements in sports, including swimming and table tennis projects, because these two projects have a national training base in Chaoshan, among which many famous players have emerged, such as Ma Lin of table tennis, Hu Jia of diving, etc.
In fact, in addition to the hard conditions of a good training base, but also because the Chaoshan area is lined with the sea and many rivers, coupled with the Chaoshan people can bear hardships, the body and feet are more flexible, etc., in the end, if you want to cultivate an Olympic champion, in addition to having a certain talent, the surrounding sports atmosphere must also keep up, in short, only with a certain mass base, let more locals participate in various sports projects, there is a chance to discover some future sports pillars.