At the London Olympics, she was still a sparring team member; at the Rio Olympics, she won a bronze medal; at the Tokyo Olympics, she was still chasing her dreams... On August 8, in the final of the women's middleweight (69-75 kg) of boxing at the Tokyo Olympics, China's Li Qian lost to Britain's Lauren Price and won the silver medal. Li Qian, who is 1 meter 8 tall, has a fair and beautiful face, and how to look at it cannot be equated with the appearance of a tiger and a tiger waving on the stage. The bronze medal at the Rio Olympics gave her the courage to hit higher goals. In the past 5 years, Li Qian has worked hard step by step, and finally broke through her best result in the Olympic Games and won the silver medal.
In the Tokyo Olympics boxing women's middleweight final, Li Qian lost to British player Lauren Price to win the silver medal According to Visual China
Switch from basketball to boxing
Li Qian's father was originally a hundred unwilling
Li Qian, whose ancestral home is Henan, was born in 1990. At the age of 17, she came to Ordos, Inner Mongolia from Henan with her parents and her family, and later entered the Inner Mongolia Sports Vocational College. Before practicing boxing, Li Qian had no idea that there was such a project. In contrast, she prefers basketball and plays well in the defender position. Not only Li Qian, but also her father Li Shouying also believes that "playing basketball is very good, but also a way out", a hundred unwilling. But it wasn't until he met boxing coach Hada Battel that his thinking was completely broken. Li Shouying said frankly, "At that time, I had a traditional concept that girls were not good at boxing. But after coach Hada Battelle's continuous work, I finally announced my 'surrender'. ”
In the Tokyo Olympics boxing women's middleweight semifinals, Li Qian advanced to the IC photo
"At first glance, I thought that Li Qian was learning boxing material, and her physical condition was very good." Hada Batel said that After several years of training in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region boxing team, Li Qian finally confirmed that her judgment was not bad. Since stepping into the boxing ring, Li Qian has become more and more fond of boxing, which is also her motivation to move forward. Relying on good physical condition and hard training, by 2012, Li Qian had almost won all the domestic championships in the women's boxing 75 kg category. When asked about the topic of girls' boxing, Li Qian, who has a straightforward personality, said bluntly: "I have been practicing boxing for more than 10 years, in fact, boxing is not as violent as everyone says. Many people say that girls should fight boxing, but boxing is actually a very comprehensive sport, and it also pays attention to wisdom and tactics. ”
Calm down and hit the gold medal again
Girls can also box
For every athlete, "participating in the Olympic Games" is very sacred. Although Li Qian's results in 2012 were also very good, she was still a sparring team member of the London Olympic Games and only dared to dream of participating in the Olympic Games one day. Compared with the previous "highlight moment", that period of time was also the trough of Li Qian's sports career. The 12th National Games in 2013 and the subsequent 2014 Incheon Asian Games were unexpectedly defeated, only to finish runners-up. Such a life situation occurred repeatedly in Li Qian's subsequent sports career. At the 2014 World Championships and the 2015 Asian Championships, Li Qian's only constant ranking was still the runner-up.
Li Qian at the Tokyo Olympics boxing women's middleweight semifinals According to IC photo
Until 2016, she got her ticket to the Rio Olympics and won the bronze medal. Although there were some regrets, Li Qian never gave up her pursuit. In order to climb the highest podium of the Olympic Games, no matter how high the load, no matter how intense the training, Li Qian can grit her teeth and insist. The reason why she was able to achieve such good results was due to the guidance of head coach Zhang Chuanliang's training concept and technical and tactical system, and to the meticulous implementation and execution of the head coach Hada Batel. Zou Shiming's pirate style of play has been widely known, in fact, Zhang Chuanliang has already expanded the pirate style when he brought Zou Shiming to four technical types of pirate, robber, bullfighting and aggression, and these different playing styles Li Qian must try in training. More importantly, compared with the first time she entered the Olympic arena, Li Qian's mentality is now more relaxed.
Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei intern Wang Zuxi
Edited by Ou Peng
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