Jedi Strike Back! In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics weightlifting men's 67 kg competition that ended on July 25, Yiyang Lingzi Chen Lijun performed well in the snatch under the premise of general performance, and the second weight was 12 kg and successfully lifted, and finally won the gold medal with a snatch of 145 kg, a deadlift of 187 kg and a total of 332 kg.
Chen Lijun at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in early 2021.
At the moment when Chen Lijun won the championship, the mother of the editor who was watching the live broadcast on the TV jumped up directly from the sofa, so excited that even the remote control could not be grasped.
This is the second gold medal won by Hunan athletes at the Olympic Games and the sixth gold medal won by the Chinese delegation. Now Xiaobian will use his excitement and trembling hands to comb and relive the Hunan weightlifting champions on the Olympic field.
Up to now (July 25, 2021), Hunan has produced 6 Olympic weightlifting champions and won a total of 7 gold medals in Olympic weightlifting.
Hunan has always been a charming land, and countless people with lofty ideals have struggled for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in modern times. In the sports world, Hunan athletes are also a beautiful landscape, leaving a strong mark in the history of the Olympic Games.
The Tokyo Olympics are in full swing, and today I will count the 6 weightlifters in the Olympic Arena, who show the strength of China and the strength of Hunan in their own way.
Yang Xia (third from left) takes over the first torch at the Xiangtan Station of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
1. Yang Xia: Centennial Olympics, the light shines
Born in 1977 in Baojing County, on the hunan border, Yang Xia is an authentic Tujia girl. Entering the millennium, women's weightlifting at the 27th Sydney Olympic Games became an official Olympic event for the first time. As an international weightlifter, Yang Xia is The first women's weightlifting Olympic champion in China. In September 2000, at the Sydney Olympic Games, Yang Xia, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, calmly walked to the final with confidence and calm heart, won the gold medal in the 53 kg category with absolute superiority, and broke 3 world records, becoming China's first women's weightlifting Olympic champion. Since then, the glorious journey of the Weightlifting Xiang Army has begun, and The Xiang athletes have continuously won gold and silver in the Olympic Arena. After retiring from the army in 2001, Yang Xia chose to enter Hunan Normal University for further study, and then entered the weight management center of hunan provincial sports bureau, continuing her weightlifting career in another capacity.
Olympic champion Long Qingquan (second from left) shares his growth journey at the 2008 Hunan Province "Tribute to Thirty Years" party
2. Long Qingquan: the best breakthrough, twice picked the laurel
Long Qingquan, born in 1990 in Longshan County, Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, is the world record holder in the men's weightlifting category 56 kg and the Olympic record holder. Long Qingquan, a "little man" of 1 meter 56, shined in the Olympic Games three months after entering the national team from the Hunan Provincial Weightlifting Team, winning the men's weightlifting 56 kg championship at the Beijing Olympic Games on August 10, 2008, winning the sixth gold medal for the Chinese sports delegation, which was also the first gold medal produced by the men's weightlifting competition. Long Qingquan, a young general under the age of eighteen with a "baby's face", became China's first "post-90s" Olympic champion. In 2012, he missed a ticket to the London Olympics because of a shoulder injury, during which time he fell into a low point and even considered retiring.
Eight years later, the 2016 Rio Olympics. He was under too much pressure in this battle, and in 2008 it seemed to be "short-lived", 2012 London was lost, and the Chinese Olympic team did not receive any results on the first day. He stood on the Olympic court again, winning the men's weightlifting 56 kg title at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with a total score of 307 kg, breaking the world record held by Turkish prodigy Mutru for 16 years, announcing to the world that he was back to the top. At the end of 2016, the hall-level award of Chinese sports, "China's Top Ten Lawrence Champions Award", was announced, and Long Qingquan won the Best Breakthrough Award, which is an affirmation of his eight years of grinding breakthroughs.
The day after winning the gold medal at the London Olympics, Wang Mingjuan and coaches He Yicheng (first from left) and Zhou Jihong (first from right) took a group photo in a hotel opened by Hunan Ren.
3. Wang Mingjuan: Thick accumulation of thin hair, and finally reach the top
Wang Mingjuan, born in 1985 in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, is a Yao nationality, an international athlete in weightlifting and a world champion. At the age of 16, she won the national 48 kg championship, but she lost the Olympics twice when she became famous as a teenager. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, she missed it because of an injury to her left knee. When preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games, there was a "cruel" scene of her simultaneous competition with Chen Xiexia and Yang Lian, three world championship champions, because of her own training state and psychological state declined as a whole, entered a trough period, and once again lost contact with the Olympics. At the 2012 London Olympics, she won the women's weightlifting 48 kg championship, the five-star red flag was rising, and the 27-year-old veteran Wang Mingjuan finally realized her dream of the Olympics. Wang Mingjuan won the second gold medal of the Olympic Games for the Chinese team and was also the opening touch of the Chinese weightlifting team at the London Olympic Games. After three Olympic games, Wang Mingjuan used her undisputed strength to declare to the world: she can, always can.
Today, as the manager of the "dream team" of the Hunan Provincial Weightlifting Sports Management Center, she is constantly cultivating new talents for the Chinese sports community.
At the 2017 National Games, Xiang Yanmei won the National Games championship for the first time with a score of 258 kg (115 kg for grabs and 143 kg for deadlifts).
4. Xiang Yanmei: Rio won the championship and kept walking
Xiang Yanmei was born in Baojing, Hunan in 1992, and is a fellow villager with Yang Xia. When she was a child, she dreamed of becoming a singer. This Hunan girl comes from Song Zuying's hometown, and has loved singing since she was a child, especially likes to listen to the songs of Sun Yanzi and Song Zuying, and when she laughs, she is also the appearance of a sweet girl, and finally she went to the road of weightlifting. Before the London Olympics, she was even the first person on the Chinese weightlifting team to wear a team uniform, but she was taken down on the eve of the departure from London, and now looking back: "It was too young at that time, and now it seems that it should not be ready, too fast." 」 After conquering 113 kg and 116 kg in two tackles in the women's weightlifting final at the Rio Olympics in 2016, the third attempt was due to Xiang Yanmei's lack of arm support, and the barbell slipped from the top of her head and hit the back of her head as she fell. With pain, Xiang Yanmei conquered 142 kg and 145 kg successively, and announced the gold medal with a total result of 261 kg.
On August 30, 2017, Xiang Yanmei won the championship in advance in the women's 69 kg competition of the National Games, and achieved the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup and National Games gold medal Grand Slam in the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup and National Games. After confirming that she could not participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games, she entered Beijing Sport University in 2019 while actively preparing for the 2021 Shaanxi National Games.
5. Hou Zhihui: Lifting weights and the first gold, the return of the Great Sage
Hou Zhihui, affectionately known as "Little Monkey", was born in 1997 in Guiyang County, Hunan Province. Like her sister Xiang Yanmei, she once missed the Olympic Games. In Rio 2016, less than a week before the start of the Olympic Games, hou Zhihui was temporarily replaced due to her own injury, and Hou Zhihui went to Brazil but could not shine on the Rio Olympics, and the 19-year-old girl cried in the room all night. Before the Tokyo Olympics, she responded domineeringly: "I will personally take back this 49 kg champion!" "Let's see this Xiang girl's domineering spirit." On July 24, 2021, she appeared at the Tokyo Olympic Games, appearing in an explosive head shape, walking tiger and tiger, showing the posture of a king. The thermos cups and wind oil essences used during the competition are on the hot search, making people sigh the mysterious power from the East. In the women's 49 kg weightlifting competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hou Zhihui won the championship with a snatch of 94 kg, a deadlift of 116 kg and a total score of 210 kg, and set a new Olympic record of 94 kg of snatch. Like Wang Mingjuan nine years ago, this is the first Chinese weightlifting gold medal won at the Tokyo Olympics and the second gold medal won by the Chinese delegation at this event.
(Did you know?) Hou Zhihui, like Yang Xia, initially studied athletics, and after being favored by Li Zhiping, the weightlifting coach of Guiyang Third Middle School, Hou Zhihui entered the weightlifting team)
6. Chen Lijun: Earth-shattering reversal, realizing the dream of the Olympics
Chen Lijun, who won the 6th gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics for China, is also the 6th weightlifting Olympic champion in Hunan, which is the 7th weightlifting Olympic gold medal in Hunan.
Chen Lijun was born in 1993 in a village in Anhua, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, Where Anhua Black Tea is famous all over the world, and now Anhua has also come out as an Olympic champion. Five years ago, on the second day of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Chen Lijun had no choice but to abstain due to two failed attempts with foot cramps and withdrew from the gold medal competition. That year, he was pinned high hopes on as a big favorite to win the championship, but eventually became a "loser". Five years later, on the evening of July 25, 2021, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the final of the men's 67 kg weightlifting class at the Tokyo Olympic Games, he made two mistakes in grasping 150 kg and 151 kg, which made the hearts of the audience in front of the screen hang high, and they could not help but think of that night five years ago. The final snatch was only 145 kg, and Colombian veteran Mosquera ranked first in the 151 kg tackle. In the deadlift link, The Moskra 180 kg was judged to fail, Colombia immediately appealed, the scene was successfully changed, the total result was 331 kg, at this time The Moskra was relaxed, and the champion was already at hand. Chen Lijun was under tremendous pressure, 11 kilograms behind, a chasm like a chasm. He also has a nearly 15-centimeter-long scar on his right upper arm, a ruptured tendon in his injured arm during a match last October. As the CCTV commentary said, he encountered all the unfavorable factors in the game, psychological burden, wrong grasping, new injuries to the arm, referee penalties and so on. But in the end, he withstood the pressure to lift the second 187 kg successfully, and finally the total score of 332 kg overwhelmed the opponent, reversed the championship, won the sixth gold for the Chinese team, and realized the dream of the Olympics!
Small science popularization: the kilogram level in sports means that the weight of athletes cannot exceed a certain value. For example, the women's weightlifting class of 48 kg means that the weight of the athlete is not allowed to exceed 48 kg, and the athlete must weigh less than or equal to this weight before the competition. Hou Zhihui lost 0.1 kilograms of weight before the race, and she ran in the sun for several minutes, wiping her sweat before passing the weighing. Each kilogram setting must ensure a sufficient number of participants and prevent athletes with large differences in weight from competing together, resulting in unfairness.
Knock on the blackboard: Tonight at 18:50 women's 55 kg final, Liao Qiuyun from Yongzhou, Hunan Province, participated, everyone cheered for the Olympic athletes, cheered for the Olympic Xiangjun!
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