On October 22, the 11th National Paralympic Games and the 8th Special Olympics Games with the theme of "Light Up Dreams and Set Sail for Love" were grandly opened at the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. The city sent 61 disabled athletes (52 Paralympic athletes and 9 Special Olympics athletes) to participate in 14 major events such as athletics, swimming, archery, table tennis, and badminton, which was the largest number of participants in the past.
Today, the National Paralympic Games schedule is more than halfway, as of October 26, the Ningbo Legion has achieved 26 gold, 17 silver and 18 bronze in the Paralympic Games, breaking 1 world record, 3 national records, and winning 3 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze in special Olympics projects, contributing nearly 30% of the gold medals and medals to the Zhejiang sports delegation, leading the Zhejiang Legion, continuing the glory of the city's disabled sports, showing the spirit of self-improvement and self-confidence of the disabled in our city.
Since the start of the event, the Ningbo Legion has performed strongly in swimming, archery, kayaking and other advantages. Swimming, is the Ningbo team's well-deserved "gold medal harvesting" project, the first day of the competition more blossoms, Chen Yi won the women's S10 level 50 meters freestyle gold medal and broke the national record; Wang Yinan won the men's S8 level 100 meters freestyle, and then in the men's 34 minutes 4× 100 meters freestyle relay with Xie Zhili, Wang Jie and other teammates to win the gold medal; Xu Jialing, Chen Yi and teammates won the gold medal in the women's 34 minutes 4× 100 meters freestyle relay; Hua Dongdong and teammates in the men's 49 minutes 4 × Won gold in the 100m medley relay, breaking the national record. On the second day of the competition, in the men's S9 level 400m freestyle final, Xie Zhili, Wang Jie and Shi Deli won the top three, especially the youngster Xie Zhili, who was born in 2005, won the championship with an absolute advantage and broke the national record of the project that had been sealed for 10 years... As of the 26th, the swimming team has won 15 gold medals, which fully demonstrates the overall strength and talent reserves of Ningbo's disabled swimming sports.
In archery, 6 participating athletes won 6 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze. Among them, Zhang Lu alone won 3 gold and 1 bronze, which is the zhejiang archery team won the most medals in this Paralympic Games; Zhou Jiamin, the double gold king of the Rio Paralympic Games and the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Chinese delegation of the Tokyo Paralympic Games, cooperated with Zhang Lu to win the gold medal in the women's composite bow open team elimination competition; Shi Wei, who participated in the National Paralympic Games for four consecutive years, won 4 gold and 4 silver in the rowing events of the 8th and 9th National Paralympic Games, and after practicing kayaking, he won 4 gold medals in the 10th and 11th National Paralympic Games, with an eye-catching performance.
Taekwondo, cycling and other potential advantages of the project to play a stable role. Li Ningshuang won 1 gold, silver and bronze medal in taekwondo events, and Wang Ting won 1 gold and 2 bronze medals in the cycling competition. Emerging project snowboarding results are gratifying, in the last National Paralympic Games won the first gold medal in the ice and snow sports in Zhejiang Province, Wang Xinyu, soon after recovery from injury in the paralympic games snowboarding won 1 silver and 1 bronze, she and another male athlete in our city Yang Jian was selected for the Beijing Winter Paralympic National Training Team, is currently fully preparing, looking forward to their surprise to Ningbo at the Winter Paralympic Games.
Athlete style
Zhang Lu
Born in Zhenhai in 1989, he was disabled in both lower limbs due to cerebral palsy. In 2009, as a full-time member of the Disabled Community in Zhaobaoshan Street, Zhenhai, she began to contact sitting volleyball, and in a sitting volleyball competition in 2013, she was selected by Shao Shufen, the coach of the provincial disabled archery team, and joined the team for training. The action of pulling a bow and shooting arrows, she had to repeat it thousands of times a day, and even the Spring Festival had almost no rest.
In the 9th National Paralympic Games and the 6th Special Olympics in 2015, Zhang Lu won 2 gold and 1 silver in the composite bow W1 project. In 2019, she retrained the compound bow open level project and won a silver medal at the 10th National Paralympic Games and the 7th Special Olympics. After that, she temporarily left the archery range due to pregnancy, and unexpectedly, the child was just 6 months old, and she returned to the team to resume training.
In this Paralympic Special Olympics, Zhang Lu won 3 gold and 1 bronze, which was the most cards won by the Zhejiang Archery Team. Few people know that on the fourth day of the archery competition, when Zhang Lu got up in the morning to wash up, his arm suddenly hurt so much that he couldn't lift it, and there were two finals of the mixed team and the women's team on that day. After the doctor's emergency treatment, she took the injury to the court and fought with her teammates for two precious gold medals.
Chen Yi
Born in Ninghai in 2001, congenital defect in the palm of his left hand. Since she was a child, she has had a fighting spirit of not accepting defeat, reading hard and training hard. In 2008, Chen Yi began swimming training. Every day after school, her father took her to the swimming pool in the county town for training, rain or shine. In order to strengthen his strength, Chen Yi practiced sit-ups, push-ups, etc. at home, and the room was equipped with a hanging ring, practicing pull-ups over and over again, and the palms practiced blood bubbles, and then they were worn out, and blood oozed out...
Since 2010, Chen Yi has been at the Ningbo Swimming Club Training Center to study with coach Tang Nengneng. "Our daily training is pretty much the same as that of able-bodied athletes." Behind this sentence is the many efforts she has made.
In 2015, Chen Yi won 5 gold and 1 bronze at the 9th Paralympic Games and the 6th Special Olympics, 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, 6 gold at the 2018 Asian Paralympic Games in Jakarta, and 5 gold and 2 silver at the 10th National Paralympic Games and the 7th Special Olympics in 2019.
At this Special Olympics, she continued to work hard after winning 2 gold medals on the first day of the competition, winning the gold medal in the women's S10 400m freestyle on October 24 and the women's S10 100m freestyle championship on the 26th, and has now won 4 gold.
Hua Dongdong
Born in 1999 in Haishu (formerly Yinzhou Shiqi), congenital visual impairment, when he was a child, he was taken by his father to learn to swim in the river in front of his home. At the age of eight or nine, under the recommendation of the Yinzhou District Disabled Persons' Federation and the Ningbo Disabled Persons' Federation, he studied under Coach Tang Nengneng and began professional swimming training, and in 2013, he was selected into the provincial disabled swimming team.
When swimming, Hua Dongdong relies on his fingers or the back of his hand to touch the swimsuit line to identify and grasp the direction. In the training of thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters every day, he has to hit the swimlane line thousands of times, and when the swimming speed is fast, the hand hitting the swimway line is very painful, so it is common for the fingers and arms to be bruised.
In the 2015 9th National Paralympic Games and the 6th Special Olympics, he won 2 gold and 2 silver; in 2019, the 10th National Paralympic Games and the 7th Special Olympics, he won 4 gold and 2 silver; in 2019, the British World Paralympic Swimming Championships, he won 1 gold and 2 bronze; this year's Tokyo Paralympic Games, he won 1 silver and 1 bronze.
At this Special Olympics, Hua Dongdong won another gold medal in the men's S11 level 50m freestyle after winning the gold medal with his teammates in the men's 49 minutes, 4×100m medley relay and breaking the national record.
Xie Zhili
In this Special Olympics, 7 of the 11 athletes of the Ningbo Swimming Team are post-00s. The youngest are Xie Zhili, Li Zhixin and Shi Deli, born in 2005 (this year's agreement to Tianjin), and since the beginning of the tournament, all three young players have performed well, all of them have medals.
Xie Zhili, since the lack of right forearm since childhood, since 2014, the Zhenhai District Disabled Persons' Federation has focused on cultivating it as an excellent seedling, and has trained at the Zhenhai Training Point of the Ningbo Swimming Team so far, and has won many honors such as the silver medal in the 200-meter medley of the youth group of the National Swimming Competition for the Disabled, the gold medal in the provincial and municipal swimming competition for the disabled and the silver medal in the provincial swimming competition of the healthy people.
This Special Olympics is the first national comprehensive large-scale event in which Xie Zhili participates. His performance was very impressive, first with his teammates in the men's 34 minutes 4× 100m freestyle relay gold medal, and then won the men's S9 400m freestyle with an absolute advantage and broke the national record for 10 years. As of the 26th, he has harvested 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze.
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