As Gong Lijiao threw a personal best of 20.58 meters at the Tokyo Olympics, winning the gold medal in the women's shot put, it also reassured Chinese track and field athletes. On the evening of August 3, Wang Zheng threw 77 meters 03 in the women's chain ball competition and won the silver medal, defending the prestige of the Chinese women's chain ball.
From shot put to chain ball, it is a cold sport. Practitioners must not only have physical advantages, weight advantages, but also technical advantages. Chinese women's throwing events have accumulated a lot. Gu Yuan was the first Asian female player to throw a 70-meter mark with a chain ball; Zhang Wenxiu made history by winning two silver medals in the chain ball at the Beijing Olympics and the Rio Olympics.
After Zhang Wenxiu retired from the 13th National Games, the baton of the chain ball was handed over to Wang Zheng and Luo Na. Wang Zheng was born in December 1987 in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, from a small size, with great strength, and did not graduate from primary school, he was picked up by the sports school to practice shot put. In 2002, Ou Xiyuan, a famous chain ball coach of the provincial team, came to Baoji Sports School and took a fancy to Wang Zheng at a glance, and wang Zheng has practiced chain ball since then.
In 2019, at the Asian Athletics Championships and the IAAF World Challenge, Wang Zheng won the championship with a result of more than 75 meters, and the results were very stable.
Coming to the Tokyo Olympic Games, on August 1, in the Women's Chain Ball Qualification Tournament for athletics at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Zheng, the "Asian Chain Ball Sister", achieved a good result of 74.29 meters in the second test shot, second only to the world record holder Rodalchik, and successfully advanced to the final. In the final, Wang Zheng played well from the first shot, and finally won the silver medal with a best time of the season at 77 meters 03. Poland's Volodachik won the championship with 78 meters 48 meters.
Wang Zheng, the "Asian Chain Ball Sister" who became a late bloomer, said: "Winning a medal at the Olympic Games is my dream, I was worried that I would miss this Olympic Games with a knee injury, but I did not expect that the Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed for a year because of the epidemic, which gave me the opportunity." At this Olympic Games. I unleashed all the power I had accumulated over the years.
Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng
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