Zhang Jun was interviewed
For several days, Zhang Jun, a "race walker" from Qujing City, Yunnan Province, who has been talking about in the streets and alleys, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games with a race walk of 1 hour, 17 minutes, 39 seconds and 20 kilometers. The whole country is looking forward to Zhang Jun's good results in the Olympic Games on August 5.
It is reported that as early as Zhang Jun, Ma Long, known as the "hometown of race walking", has successively sent more than ten outstanding race walking athletes to the international sports arena, such as Li Zewen, Zhao Chengliang, Wu Chaocai, Gao Jiafu, Gao Yunbin, Chen Yunlong, Wang Jinli, Zha Rongchao, Yang Tao, Yang Wenbo, etc., and won 12 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal in international competitions, 22 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 2 bronze medals in national competitions, and 79 gold medals, 42 silver medals and 43 bronze medals in provincial competitions.
In recent years, the Malong District Party Committee and the District Government have taken the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country through sports as an opportunity, with the goal of building a "city of healthy sports", taking meeting the people's health needs and promoting the all-round development of people as the starting point and foothold of sports work, accelerating the development of sports in the whole region and the training of reserve talents in sports competition, continuously increasing financial investment, improving training conditions and facilities, improving the level of coaches, improving team allocation, grasping logistics support, and strengthening team management. It has created a good training environment and high-quality living conditions for children's sports training. At the same time, the Malong District Party Committee and the District Government insist on attaching equal importance to cultural education and professional training, strengthen the top-level design of the training of reserve talents in sports and education, and explore diversified ways to cultivate reserve talents in competitive sports. In 1996 and 1997, Ma Long was awarded the National Advanced Unit of Amateur Training at the County Level by the National Sports Commission, in 2009 it was designated by the National Athletics Management Center as the Olympic High-level Reserve Talent Walking Training Base, and in 2015 it was named "National Children's Sports Reserve Talent Base" by the State General Administration of Sports.
Zhang Jun's childhood photo
Zhang Jun in my mother's heart: a caring "little cotton jacket"
After the knock on the door, 50-year-old Zhang Guoyun opened the door, and the room that came into my eyes was clean, tidy and open, and the TV in front of the sofa was broadcast live from the Tokyo Olympics.
After understanding the author's intentions, his father, who was not good at words, became more and more restrained, and entered the bedroom on the pretext of looking for Photos and Awards from Zhang Jun's childhood. When he came out with a pair of awards that his son had won when he was young, Zhang Guoyun showed a proud and proud look on his face, and he was also sharp when he spoke. "My son's hard work and persistence over the years, I know best, he can have today's achievements, I am proud of him, proud of him, but also hope that he can adjust his mentality, do his best, and win glory for the country."
"I liked sports since I was a child, and then I went to junior high school and said that I liked race walking, and I didn't understand as a parent, so I could only silently support him behind his back." As a parent, I don't expect him to have a big career, nor do I expect him to become a talent, but I must be an adult, grateful and polite. Compared with her father Zhang Guoyun, her mother Lu Huixiang is more talkative, and when the author asks about her son Zhang Jun's childhood, Lu Huixiang is also on her mind and talks endlessly.
"Mom, I'm going to take care of you and Dad when I grow up." When he was 11 years old, Zhang Jun once said this to his mother Lu Huixiang. As the saying goes, "the children of poor families have long been home", which has been well verified in Zhang Jun's body. "In the past, the conditions at home were not good, the family was busy with farm work, Zhang Jun was very considerate of his parents since he was a child, often helping to do housework, picking vegetables, making a fire, boiling rice, stir-frying, one or two slowly he would also do it himself, most of the dinner at home was made by him. Later, I went to the provincial team for training, came back with less time, and then often went out to participate in the competition, only once a year, but every time I came back, I was still the same as when I was a child, washing, mopping, cooking, washing dishes, and I was sad that my father and I ran a taxi hard, and at night they would give us a pat on the back, rub our shoulders, talk about intimate words, talk about training, some interesting things in the game. Mother Lu Huixiang said.
Ancients: Children and daughters are a "good" word, but in this ordinary rural family, a pair of sons have also made up a "good" word. The brother is bold and dares to take responsibility, for many years to manage housework, take care of parents, for the younger brother to support a dream of the blue sky, brother Zhang Jun patient, meticulous, intimate, warm heart, from a young age to thank the family, heartache parents, can be said to be countless mothers in the eyes of the "intimate little cotton jacket".
Parents cheered Zhang Jun on the TV
Zhang Guoyun, the father who is not good at talking, is simple and kind, and the family did not deliberately dress because they knew in advance that they were going to be interviewed by reporters, and they wore a washed, old, white dress as usual, and there was a hole in the knee.
Looking at the furnishings in the house and my father's dress, the author fell into contemplation. It seems that such a simple, kind, and humble ordinary rural family has cultivated such an excellent sports competition talent for the country, for Yunnan, and for Ma Long.
Zhang Jun's coach was interviewed
Zhang Jun in the eyes of the coach: gratitude, filial piety, strong
Under the leadership of the relevant person in charge of the street, the author and his party found Zhang Jun's enlightenment coach Zhang Pinghong. "These dolls who went out from Malone are very good, no matter what kind of achievements they have achieved outside, the first thing they do when they return to Malone is to call me, come to the sports school to find me to sit and talk, Zhang Jun is no exception, every year when he comes back, he has to come to me to sit and talk, and he is also very polite to the brothers, very grateful, and very filial piety."
"I have always taken care of education as if they were their own dolls, and the dolls naturally like to tell me what they have in their hearts, Zhang Jun is the same, in 2012, because of the chance opportunity, he chose to join the race walking team when he liked sports since he was a child, and at first he encountered various difficulties and discomforts when he first practiced, but he never gave up and has been insisting, Li Zewen and Zhao Chengliang are his learning examples and goals."
"I remember once, the original plan to arrange a 20-kilometer race walk training, suddenly it rained heavily, because the children are still young, distressed and worried about them, they discussed with the children that they waited for the rain to stop and then start, but Zhang Jun was not happy, saying that since the teacher was set for training, why did it rain not go, today is the sky 'knife' also to walk through these 20 kilometers, the words just fell on the people to brave the rain." It can be said that Zhang Jun is very persevering and strong in training. Coach Zhang Pinghong said so.
"In my memory, Zhang Jun's family is not rich, the house is also an adobe house, the home furnishings are simple, and the living expenses are not much every time, but he is very frugal, never spends a penny indiscriminately, and once privately told me that his parents are not easy, he wants to study like Li Zewen and Zhao Chengliang, he must go out, use the money he earned to buy a house for his parents, let them live better, inadvertently on the childhood training ground, I did not pay attention at the time, symbolically encouraged him, let him not think too much about peace of mind training, do the best of their own."
In 2018, Zhang Jun, who was only 19 years old, fulfilled his childhood promise and used the money he earned to buy a three-bedroom apartment of more than 110 square meters for his parents in Malone County. It is reported that the house price at that time was about 300,000 yuan.
Zhang Jun's award certificate
Looking back, everything stems from not giving up and doing my best. Zhang Jun spent 10 years from a small county, with his feet and strong perseverance, step by step out of Malong District, out of Yunnan Province, to the whole country, to the world.
Ten years of trees, a hundred years of tree people, do not seek everyone to become talented, but seek everyone to become adults. From the age of 6, when he remembered the reason, he remembered the teachings and remembered the teacher's grace; on the road from adulthood to talent, he did not forget the teacher's kindness, gratitude to his parents, and inspiration to move forward.
Zhang Jun in the mouth of the playmate: talented, love to commit "two", small nerves
"What are you doing, going to Tokyo is not adaptable, the food there is still delicious, the food is good?" How's the preparation status? Don't be nervous every day, adjust yourself, don't say more, just come on, wait for you. At 10:00 a.m., the author and his party found Zhang Jun's playmate Zhu Chendong, the two were on a WeChat voice call, and from the dialogue, they could feel their ridicule, concern, understanding and support for each other, Zhang Jun was actively and nervously preparing for the game, and the state was also very good.
"Zhang Jun has a talent for race walking, but he is also very hard, And Li Zewen and Zhao Chengliang have always been his learning examples and goals." "He worked hard, and in one year of the youth 10km race walk, all the winners were like he was contracted, they were all first place, so he was also the person and the goal I wanted to be."
"Usually the training is very strict, the time is also very tight, and the time between the two is very small, but when they are together, he is very good at 'making two' and even a little 'small nerve'." "He is very good at taking care of people, will give me medicine after training injuries, often remind me to protect myself during training, and tell me how to pace and speed up during training and when I am racing." Zhu Chendong said with a smile.
It is reported that Zhang Jun and Zhu Chendong are both Malong people, who have trained together in the Malong District Sports School and the Race Walking School, and because of their outstanding achievements, they have been selected to enter the Chenggong Sports Training Base in Yunnan Province to participate in the provincial team training together.
Yunnan network correspondent Zhao Yanying Yang Ping photo report