Gong Li made up for the olympic regrets with the gold medal of the National Games. Photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau
Beijing News (Chief Reporter Sun Haiguang) The karate competition of the 14th National Games continued to be held today at the Lintong Campus of Xi'an Polytechnic University, and Beijing's Gong Li won the gold medal in the women's +61 kg category with a 3-0 victory over Jiao Wenlu of the Shandong team.
At this year's Tokyo Olympics, karate became an official competition for the first time, which also attracted a lot of attention. In the Women's +61 kg karate competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Gong Li won a bronze medal. During the period of isolation back to China, Gong Li has maintained exercise and maintained a good state of competition.
Gong Li (right) won 3-0. Photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau
At the beginning of the game, Gong Li used a set of combination punches to score 1 point first. Subsequently, Gong Li took the initiative to attack, and in the case of being fallen, neither side hit an effective scoring point. In the final stage of the game, Gong Li scored two more points to win 3-0 against Jiao Wenlu.
"Today's championship is inseparable from the long-term help of the national team coaching staff, and I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart." Without their cultivation, I wouldn't have been able to progress so fast. Gong Li revealed that often for a scoring point for a lesson of training, at least to play hundreds of punches, kick hundreds of legs, are toward a positioning hit, has been hard to hone, "In fact, I was not very good at boxing before, but after a particularly hard training, I think today's game is a lot of relying on Chinese boxing to get points, and then finally won the game, very happy." ”
Sun Haiguang, chief reporter of the Beijing News
Edited by Bao Hongguang