Recently, the Chinese badminton world has ushered in the return of a "blockbuster" figure, that is, Tian Bingyi, who is known as the "Gold Medal Famous Coach". Tian Bingyi, a former badminton player, became the deputy head coach of the Chinese badminton team in 1997, and in the next 19 years, he helped Guoyu dominate the women's doubles event for 19 years, firmly holding all the world championships in his hands.
In 2017, Tian Bingyi left as the head coach of the women's doubles group, which made the majority of national feather fans regret. Now, almost three years have passed, and Tian Bingyi has officially returned to serve as the head of the coaching team of the Chinese national youth badminton team. Under the planning of Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association, gold medal coaches Li Mao and Tian Bingyi both returned, and also hired two Korean coaches for the first time in history, hoping to bring a qualitative leap to the Chinese badminton team.
Before becoming a coach, Tian Bingyi was a veritable member of the main chinese badminton team. As an athlete, he was Li Yongbo's golden partner, and the two won six world championships, including three Thomas Cups, two World Championships and one World Cup. He also won three Thomas Cup badminton tournaments in 1986, 1988 and 1990.
In 1992, Tian Bingyi encountered a turning point in his life. After finishing third in the Thomas Cup, he and Li Yongbo were accidentally injured at the Barcelona Olympics and eventually missed the championship and finished third. After successive blows, Tian Bingyi bid farewell to his career as an athlete and embarked on the position of women's doubles coach. Unexpectedly, Tian Bingyi, who was in the coaching position, ushered in a new breakthrough in his career.
In 1993, Tian Bingyi found Ge Fei and Gu Jun at the Seventh Games, transferred them to the national team and painstakingly cultivated them, and in a few years, he collected a series of gold medals in the World Championships such as the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Cup, the Sudirman Cup, and the All England Open. After that, he also trained a number of world champions such as Du Jing and Yu Yang, and became a "gold medal famous coach" with word of mouth and outstanding achievements.
Whether as an athlete or a coach, Tian Bingyi is a representative of success. On the family side, he did the same, his wife Zhou Jihong was a former diver, and at the 1984 Olympic Games she won China's first Olympic diving gold medal. After retiring from the army, she served as the coach of the national diving team, during which she left due to marriage and children, and in 1998, China's diving fell into a trough, and she was appointed as the head of the diving team, and has trained nearly 30 diving Olympic champions.
The "gold medal couple" has been traversing the Chinese sports scene for many years, and the son of the two, Tian Yu, has also inherited athletic talent. Zhou Jihong once revealed in an interview that Tian Yu is now a sports all-rounder, and he has mastered the sports skills of 8 Olympic sports alone. Tian Yu also won the third place in the Guangdong Junior Golf Championship. However, after Tian Yu studied abroad, there was no news of him, and it had to be said that it was very mysterious.