Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News Following the silver medal in the women's 400 meters on the 21st and the gold medal in the women's 800 meters on the 22nd, Anhui famous Wang Chunyu won the gold medal in the women's 1500 meters final of the 14th National Games held on the evening of the 24th with 4 minutes 16 seconds 61. Two gold and one silver, Wang Chunyu's third trip to the whole luck ended perfectly. As the "800-meter sister" in China and even in Asia, she will train her troops at the Hangzhou Asian Games a year later, and refer to the Paris Olympic Games three years later.
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The wind under the feet is covered with gold and silver
Wang Chunyu is currently the leader of China's women's middle and long distance running, and she is better known as the Tokyo Olympics that ended in August. She became the first Chinese athlete to qualify for the Women's 800m final of the Olympic Games, and set a new personal best (PB) in a row, and finally won the fifth place in the Chinese delegation in a historic way with 1 minute 57 seconds.
After returning from the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Chunyu was not affected by too many closures and quarantines. At this National Games, she reported three events: 400 meters, 800 meters and 1500 meters. From the 21st and 24th, the intensive schedule of the three events is a challenge to physical fitness, fortunately, after the Tokyo Olympic cycle, whether it is speed or physical fitness, Wang Chunyu has greatly improved, "(four days and five shots) is within the range I can accept." ”
The women's 1500m race cancelled the preliminary round and went straight to the final on the evening of the 24th, so a total of 15 players competed together. On the third trip to the National Games, 26-year-old Wang Chunyu has become the oldest player in the whole field. It rained heavily in Xi'an that day, and in order to facilitate the competition, Wang Chunyu, the "bow girl", pulled up her hair. The rain race is no small challenge for all the contestants, the gap between the first few laps of the players is not large, and it is the last lap, especially the last 100 meters, Wang Chunyu took the lead in rushing out of the team, and it was the first to hit the line with the sprint ability of the dominant arena, 4 minutes 16 seconds 61, Wang Chunyu won the 1500 meters gold medal.
She finished second in the women's 400m in 52.00 seconds, won the main event 800m without suspense, and continued to win the gold medal in the 1500m. Anhui girl achieved an excellent record of two gold and one silver at this National Games.
After the 400-meter race, Wang Chunyu congratulated the champion Sichuan yang for the first time. After the 800m race, she smiled and hugged her opponents.
In the face of the media, Wang Chunyu said bluntly that he created history in the Tokyo Olympics, and he also hoped to lead the young athletes around him to create a better women's 800m performance. In that domestic 800-meter peak showdown, driven by Wang Chunyu, 6 players, including Gui Ruyi, a young "post-00s" in Anhui, all created their personal bests.
Hard self-discipline to break through the self
If success has a password, Wang Chunyu's password is hard self-discipline. In her view, athletic talent is important, but hard self-discipline is essential.
Born in 1995, Wang Chunyu participated in the student sports meeting in 2007 in the Wanqiao District of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, met coach Zheng Xiaofeng, and began to train with him. This practice is 14 years.
Wang Chunyu did not practice at the beginning of the 800 meters, but 3000 meters of race walking. "At that time, I was competing in the province and found that the 800m champion was not as fast as me." Wang Chunyu told reporters that it was she herself who took the initiative to propose to the coach to practice 800 meters.
In 2011, at the 7th National Urban Games, 16-year-old Wang Chunyu "flew" into the sky and won the championship in the women's 800m final with a time of 2:01.34, shocking the athletics world. This championship was also a turning point in Wang Chunyu's career, and she was then selected for the provincial team and the national team, and began to compete in domestic and international competitions.
Being a good professional athlete is bound to sacrifice a lot, "for example, in terms of diet, I certainly can't eat anytime and anywhere like everyone else, these are things that need to be abandoned." In terms of work and rest, I set the alarm clock, get up at 7 o'clock every day, and go to bed at 10:10 pm. Athletes also have doping checks, need to fill in whereabouts information, and can't go wherever they want, which are restricted. ”
Since 2015, Wang Chunyu has won gold medals in domestic events (National Games, National Athletics Championships, National Athletics Championships, National Athletics Grand Prix, etc.), and she has few opponents in the Asian arena, including gold medals in the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships, 2018 Asian Athletics Championships, and 2018 Jakarta Asian Games.
Behind the results is hard training day after day. Athletics training is very boring, very hard, the intensity of daily training is very large, winter training a day to run 20.5 kilometers, equivalent to a "half horse". But Wang Chunyu never got tired enough to want to give up, "Sometimes when my physical condition is not very good, I may be lazy, but I never want to give up." ”
Keep moving and aiming at Paris
In addition to the competition, Wang Chunyu's studies did not fall. This year, she has completed her graduate studies at Anhui Normal University, "because of the postponement of the defense for the Tokyo Olympics, when she returned from Tokyo to quarantine in Beijing, she conducted an online defense." In order to give back to his alma mater, Wang Chunyu chose to stay in the school to teach, "After the National Games, he will report to the school." ”
After the National Games wearing gold and silver, Wang Chunyu will not stop making self-breakthroughs. At next year's Hangzhou Asian Games, Wang Chunyu wants to sign up for the 800 meters and 1500 meters events to challenge himself.
The last time the Asian Games were held in China was in Guangzhou in 2010, when Wang Chunyu was only 15 years old, "when the coach took me to watch the game. Next year, the Asian Games are back in China, and I definitely want to achieve good results on my doorstep. ”
Not only next year's Asian Games and World Championships, Wang Chunyu has set his sights on the Paris Olympic Games three years later. Wang Chunyu made history at the Tokyo Olympics, "1 minute and 57 seconds, I still think about it now. Before going to Tokyo, I had better run 1:59.18, and I didn't expect to improve my performance by two seconds at the Olympics. "But it also leaves regrets," the ranking is still a little regretful. Coach Zheng Xiaofeng also felt the same way, "In the Olympic final, Wang Chunyu did not keep up with a point in the middle, if he can keep up, he should be able to achieve a better ranking." ”
After experiencing the Battle of the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Chunyu officially entered the world stage. In the past two years, because of the epidemic, Wang Chunyu has not had the opportunity to go abroad to participate, and next, she hopes to have more opportunities to participate in international competitions, "competing with the world's top masters and improving her own level." Fortunately, after so many years of training competitions, Wang Chunyu basically has no injuries, which is also one of her advantages.
"She is now 26 years old, which is the best time for middle-distance runners, and the next Asian Games and Olympic Games are her rising period, and there is still a lot of room for improvement." Coach Zheng Xiaofeng is very optimistic about Wang Chunyu.
"It is said that middle-distance running is the world of European and American athletes. But after the Tokyo Olympics, I don't think we are far behind the world. After Tokyo, Wang Chunyu looked at Paris more confidently: "Just like Xiang Ge (Liu Xiang) said before, 'who said that yellow-skinned people can't enter the top eight of the Olympic Games', I also want to tell the world that China has a very strong female 800 meters runner." ”
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News reporter Xu Haiyan
Edit: Tao Na
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