Known as Gong Lijiao's best successor, Shanghai's "tomboy" Song Jiayuan won the fifth place in Tokyo

In the just-concluded put final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Song Jiayuan from Shanghai played well, finishing fifth with a time of 19 meters 14. Although there is still a certain gap between Gong Lijiao, who won the gold medal, she has actually become recognized by the athletics industry as "Gong Lijiao's best successor".

In 2008, at the age of 11, Song Jiayuan was selected by Wang Fang, the coach of the athletics team of the Changning District Youth Amateur Sports School, to join the Changning Junior Sports School athletics team to participate in shot put training, and in 2010, she was sent to Shanghai No. 2 Sports School. Shanghai athletics team leader Duanmu Guojie said in an interview with reporters: "From the junior sports school to the second sports school to the first team, Song Jiayuan has taken a very solid step by step, and her biggest feature in daily training is that she can afford to suffer, and at the same time, she is very outstanding in self-management. In addition, Song Jiayuan is also very fond of the shot put project, plus her personality is very cheerful like a 'tomboy', so she has never had anything to say in training. ”

With unremitting efforts, Song Jiayuan's achievements in the past two years have improved rapidly. Before this season, Song Jiayuan's personal best was 18m 32 thrown in Chengdu in April 2019. On March 30 this year, at the 2021 throwing competition in Chengdu, Gong Lijiao easily won the championship with 19 meters 54, and Song Jiayuan threw 18 meters 91 in the third throw, which greatly improved her personal best and also greatly surpassed the 18 meters 50 Tokyo Olympic standard. This is not the end, at the athletics division invitational tournament held at the end of April this year, Song Jiayuan's performance once again shocked everyone, and the good result of 19 meters 32 has the strength to obtain a good place in the international arena.

Unlike many female shot put players, Song Jiayuan used a more difficult rotary throwing method in the game, in order to allow her to better master the technology, so that it is more in line with her physical conditions and characteristics, Song Jiayuan's coach in the Shanghai team Sui Xinmei dedicated herself, in addition to teaching her true biography, she also asked the Shanghai Institute of Physical Science to use the most advanced "three-dimensional motion capture" technology to digitally and comprehensively analyze Song Jiayuan's throwing movements, and use these data to make up for shortcomings and improve her ability. This may also become one of the important reasons why Song Jiayuan can get a performance improvement in a short period of time.

"Song Jiayuan is only 23 years old this year, and we didn't give her any tasks when we went to Tokyo this time." "We hope she can experience for herself what the Olympics are all about, and her real stage should be in Paris in 2024," Said. ”

After achieving today's good results, I believe that in Paris three years later, Song Jiayuan will become more confident.

Author: Chen Haixiang

Edit: Gu Miao