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An amputee girl who uses basketball as a "foot" is now a swimmer, holding up dumbbells and doing sit-ups every day

author:Nine News

Recently, in the Women's 100m Breaststroke SB5 competition of the Paralympic Games, "Basketball Girl" Qian Hongyan won silver.

She was born in 1996 to a peasant family in Zhuangshang Village, Majie Town, Luliang County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province. When she was 4 years old, when Qian Hongyan was playing with her friends on the road outside the village, she suffered a life-changing car accident: in order to pick up her shoes that had fallen off, she was hit by a large truck and swept into the bottom of the car, resulting in a complete amputation below the pelvic bone.

In order to let her continue to school, Grandpa cut the old basketball from the middle and put cotton on it, put half of the basketball under her, and also specially made a pair of "wooden hand pads" that she could carry to help her "walk". Qian Hongyan is also known as the "basketball girl".

An amputee girl who uses basketball as a "foot" is now a swimmer, holding up dumbbells and doing sit-ups every day

According to the People's Daily, when Qian Hongyan was 11 years old, she was selected by the Yunnan Provincial Disabled Swimming Team, because she had no lower body, and was seriously unbalanced in the water, she said that "losing her legs is like a boat without a rudder, there is no sense of direction in the water, it is easy to swing laterally, affecting speed." Therefore, the coach specially customized a training program for her.

An amputee girl who uses basketball as a "foot" is now a swimmer, holding up dumbbells and doing sit-ups every day
An amputee girl who uses basketball as a "foot" is now a swimmer, holding up dumbbells and doing sit-ups every day

During those days, Qian Hongyan had to undergo no less than 4 hours of professional swimming training every day, lifting dumbbells, doing sit-ups and arm stretching... After training again and again, slowly, she found a way to move forward in the water, and swimming also allowed her to go from the mountains to the world.

An amputee girl who uses basketball as a "foot" is now a swimmer, holding up dumbbells and doing sit-ups every day

According to public information, in 2009, Qian Hongyan won three gold medals in the 9th Paralympic Games in Yunnan Province, and won 1 gold and 2 silver in the National Paralympic Under 18 Swimming Championships held in the same year; in 2016, the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, won the ninth place in the women's 100m breaststroke competition; in 2019, Tianjin Paralympic Games Qian Hongyan won a bronze medal in the S7 women's swimming 400m final.

【Source: Nine Schools News Synthesis】

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