Hurdles are representatives of athletics projects that combine speed with skill, and have a long history of development since they first appeared in Britain around 1830. As early as the first Olympic Games in 1896, hurdles entered the Olympic family, and the time of introduction to China was about the beginning of the 20th century.
For hurdles, most Chinese sports fans have a special complex. Because of this project, China has produced a famous player Liu Xiang. As a yellow athlete, Liu Xiang is the first Grand Slam legend in the history of the event to combine olympic champions, world championship champions and world record holders, and the first yellow race to reach the top of the world in the straights short track and field event.
In fact, Liu Xiang has also injected long-term attention into the project, and the outstanding players who have developed in Liu Xiang's contemporaries or behind him have also received more attention than their predecessors. Placed in the 110-meter men's hurdles, Liu Xiangzhi is an extremely top-notch gear in the whole of China and even in the entire Asian level, and the analogy between him and other players is tantamount to a dimensionality reduction blow. true
In addition to Liu Xiang, what are the more representative hurdles in the history of Chinese athletics? In this article, the author will sort it out a bit and make an inventory.
5. Lin Shaozhou
In the list, Lin Shaozhou is a rather special hurdles player. Born in 1904 and died in 1987, Lin Shaozhou, born in Tainan and raised in Xiamen, was the first Chinese to stand on the Olympic stage.
Looking back at the 1932 Olympic Games, Liu Changchun, a 100-meter flyer, went to the meeting with a single knife and almost could not come back; in the next 1936 Olympic Games, it was no longer Liu Changchun's single shadow, and Lin Shaozhou, the national champion whose hurdles strength was second to none in China at that time, was in the Olympic list.
After retiring from the army, Lin Shaozhou made a living in the business of pulling scooters in Chengdu. When New China began to develop sports, Lin Shaozhou finally got the opportunity to show his strengths again, entered the Southwest Sports Team and became the first hurdles coach in New China, bringing out Four & the first batch of Chinese 110-meter hurdles professional athletes, including Luo Wenren, Yang Yuhong, Deng Qi and Liao Xianxi.
He was the first Chinese to appear in the Olympic hurdles event and the first professional coach of the Hurdles in China. No matter how many years, Lin Shaozhou should have a place when it comes to China's hurdles.
4. Chen Yanhao
Chen Yanhao, 49, from Shanghai, has won two Asian Championships, one Asian Games champion, and two National Games consecutive crowns, with a personal best of 13.37 seconds, and is Sun Haiping's senior disciple and Liu Xiang's brother and initial opponent.
Back in 2001, Liu Xiang, a new generation of flyers also from Shanghai, won the championship at the Guangzhou Nine Games, thus initially entering the vision of track and field fans. At that national games, Liu Xiang defeated his predecessor Chen Yanhao, with an advantage of 0.06 seconds, which was the last battle of Chen Yanhao's career. Since then, China's hurdles have entered the Liu Xiang era.
3. Li Tong
Li Tong, 54, from Beijing, was the "King of Asian Hurdles" in the 1990s and the holder of the Asian record in the top 110m hurdles. Looking back on Li Tong's career, his personal best was 13.25 seconds, which was created in 1994. It was not until the rise of Liu Xiang that Li Tong's dusty Asian record was broken.
In the history of the development of the 110-meter hurdles project, Li Tong is an iconic breakthrough figure. Back at the 1991 World Championships in Japan, Li Tong reached the final and became the top eight Asian athlete in the history of athletics in the world championships, which has great inspiration for future generations. After retiring from the army, Li Tong went to the United States to study, and served as the director of Nike's sports marketing department in China.
2. Shi Dongpeng
As a famous Chinese hurdles player who is active in the same era as Liu Xiang, the 37-year-old Shi Dongpeng is a familiar face for everyone. To some extent, Shi Dongpeng's results in Asia are also representatives of first-class players (the personal fastest time is 13.19 seconds, a regular in the semi-final level of the competition).
As the strongest yellow race outside of Liu Xiang in the same era, Shi Dongpeng's aura had to be submerged under Liu Xiang's aura, and the media had long taken the "millennium old two" to engage in propaganda effects. On another level, because of Liu Xiang's huge influence, in fact, Shi Dongpeng also enjoyed some famous dividends. Compared with Li Tong and Chen Yanhao, Shi Dongpeng's popularity is still good, and individuals can also receive some activities to help supplement income in the heyday.
1. Xie Wenjun
In the blink of an eye, Xie Wenjun has also reached the age of 31, and there will not be too many days of active in the arena. Also from Shanghai, China, and also under the door of Coach Sun Haiping, Xie Wenjun has been named "Liu Xiang's successor" since his debut.
Liu Xiang's class needs to be picked up by the chosen one, and in fact, Xie Wenjun has worked hard enough to achieve excellent results at the Asian level. His personal best, Xie Wenjun was 13.17 seconds, second only to Liu Xiang in China. In the history of Asia, there are only a few people who can outperform Xie Wenjun.
Looking back on Xie Wenjun's career, the most regrettable thing is the 2012 London Olympics. At the time, Xie finished 13.34 seconds in the semifinals, the fastest of all those who failed to make it to the final. That is to say, when Xie Wenjun was the strongest, he was the ninth in the world.