Throughout the history of China's athletics development, women's throwing has always been the trump card project of Chinese athletics rushing out of Asia and going to the world, especially since the reform and opening up, it is a period of rapid development of China's women's throwing level, starting from Hebei shot put player Li Meisu won the first Olympic women's track and field medal for China in 1988, a batch of throwing stars have emerged, repeatedly on the podium in the world competition, and made outstanding contributions to China's athletics in the world. For more than 40 years, these four sports (shot put, discus, javelin, chain ball) have maintained a long-term prosperity, always maintained the world's advanced level, and women's throwing has long become a flag that does not fall in Chinese athletics. In order to better let the old irons understand the development process of China's women's throwing project, the author has selected ten outstanding women's heroes who have performed in these four sports for more than 40 years, hoping to arouse everyone's love and attention to Chinese athletics! (Ranking is not high or low, subject to chronological order)
<h1>One: Li Xiaohui (discus</h1>).
Li Xiaohui is a native of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, she can be called a figure in China's women's throwing event, creating many "firsts": in 1976, she won China's first Asian championship in women's throwing; the first Asian record-breaking women's throwing event, the first Chinese athlete to win the gold medal in athletics at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok. In 1980, she set an Asian record of 61.80 meters, becoming the first athlete in China and even Asia to break the women's discus 60 meters mark. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she broke Asian and national records 22 times, and was the first track and field athlete in China to reach the world level in women's throwing since the reform and opening up.
<h1>Two: Li Meisu (shot put</h1>).
Li Meisu, a famous track and field player in Hebei who is known as the "goddess" and "queen of shot put", is a shijiazhuang xinle person, and in her 26 years of long sports career, she has broken the national record 88 times and set a new Asian record 26 times. In 1988, she set two magical records that were permanently recorded in the annals of Chinese athletics: in the women's shot put final at the Seoul Olympics, She won a valuable bronze medal with a time of 21.06 meters, which is not only the first medal in the history of the Olympic Games for Chinese women's track and field, but also the only track and field medal won in asia at the Olympic Games, this year, Li Meisu also set an Asian record of 21.76 meters, which has been maintained for 32 years and still no one has shaken, which is one of the longest -held "beard records" of all Asian track and field records.
<h1>Three: Huang Zhihong (shot put</h1>).
Huang Zhihong was the famous "Queen of Shot Put" in the world of athletics in the 1990s, and her signature "Huang's Smile" was once all the rage. As the successor of veteran Li Meisu, she achieved a higher level in the World Series than her sister, and from the time she won the second place in the World Championships (indoors) in 1989, she created the "Huang Zhihong Era" in the women's shot put world: the 1989 World Cup champion; the triple crown of the 1991, 1993 and 1997 World Championships; and the only Chinese athlete who has won medals in all three major competitions. The only time in her sporting career that she regrets that she has lost two Olympic finals and is second in the world, just one step away from the honor of the first Grand Slam winner in the history of Chinese athletics.
<h1>Four: Sui Xinmei (shot put</h1>).
Sui Xinmei is one of the "troikas" in the Chinese women's shot put industry thirty years ago, although the fame is not as good as Huang Zhihong and Li Meisu, but it is a well-known power figure in the world throwing world, the world famous player belonging to the Shanghai Sports Team is actually Shandong Zhaoyuanren, in 1991 she and teammate Huang Zhihong went out to the World Indoor Athletics Championships, she defeated many world masters including Huang Zhihong with a good result of 20.54 meters, and won the world championship of the first indoor competition in the history of Chinese women's shot put. 1994 was the most glorious year of Sui Xinmei's sports career, she not only defeated Huang Zhihong again to win the women's shot put gold medal at the Hiroshima Asian Games, but also created the world's best result of 21.66 meters, which was second only to Li Meisu's Asian record of 21.76 meters, the second best in Asian history, in view of her excellent performance, Sui Xinmei was selected as the "Top Ten National Athletes" in 1994. She was also a silver medalist in the 1996 Olympic shot put competition in Atlanta.
<h1>Five: Xu Demei (javelin).</h1>
Known as the "girl", Zhejiang famous Xu Demei is the only athlete in China who has won the women's javelin world championship so far, and is one of the few "crazy people" competition players in the history of Chinese athletics, before the third Tokyo World Championships in September 1991, her best result was only the runner-up of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, and it is unlikely that she can achieve good results in the world championships with strong hands, but this player who is not optimistic has become the biggest dark horse in the javelins competition. She not only threw the world's best result of 68.78 meters that year, but also defeated the german star Fürck, who won the championship, and won the first women's javelin world championship in the history of Chinese athletics, which is not only the best result in Asia before the revision of the javelin rules, but also breaks through the monopoly position of European and American athletes on this event for many years, leaving a strong pen in the history of Chinese athletics.
<h1>Six: Xiao Yanling (discus</h1>).
Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, is the cradle of China's throwing wizards, and many world-class throwers have come out of here for decades, in addition to the famous shot put stars Li Meisu, Gong Lijiao, Li Meiju, the women's discus Xiao Yanling is also a famous player worth remembering, in 1992 at the Beijing Regional Athletics Competition, She set a new Asian record with an excellent score of 71.68 meters, which is not only the first female discus player in the history of Asian athletics to break the 70 meters mark, but also created the world's best result that year, which is a very remarkable result, you know, so far, only 5 people in the history of women's discus in the world have exceeded 70 meters. For 28 years, this astonishing achievement has been quietly sleeping in the Asian record book, becoming one of the most insurmountable Asian track and field records.
<h1>Seven: Li Yanfeng (discus</h1>).
Li Yanfeng is a discus player from Suihua, Heilongjiang, and an outstanding representative of the late chinese athletics industry. At the age of 30, she won the first women's discus world championship in the history of China's athletics at the 2010 World Cup (also known as the Intercontinental Cup) athletics competition, and was also the sixth world champion in the history of the Chinese legion in the World Cup athletics competition. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she won the first women's discus gold medal in the history of Chinese athletics at the World Championships with a score of 66.52 meters, becoming a veritable double world champion.
<h1>Eight: Zhang Wenxiu (Chain Ball</h1>).
Zhang Wenxiu, a track star from Dalian, is not only the best athlete in the history of China's women's chain ball, but also ranks in the top three in the history of the world's women's chain. In 1995, the women's chain ball was officially entered into the international competition, and Zhang Wenxiu began to participate in the world series in 1997, a total of three Olympic Games, four Asian Games, nine World Table Tennis Championships, known as the "World Championships Nine Dynasties Elders", can be called one of the witnesses of the development history of the world women's chain ball, in her more than 20 years of chain ball career, won two Olympic silver medals and many World Championship medals, no one in the Asian athletics world is unmatched. Regrettably, she was missing a World Series gold medal, and several competitions passed by the champion. Despite this, she is still recognized as one of the most unforgettable athletes in the history of the world's women's chain.
<h1>Nine: Lü Huihui (javelin).</h1>
Lu Huihui, a Henan girl who graduated from Sias College of Zhengzhou University, is one of the most sought-after beauty stars in the active national competition in China's athletics industry, and although she was banned for a year for doping seven years ago, it did not affect her popularity in the hearts of track and field fans. Her best result was to break the Asian record at the 2015 Beijing World Championships with 66.13 meters and win a silver medal, in 2019 she created a world best record of 67.78 meters in the women's javelin, and won the IAAF Diamond League Finals, the world best in 2020 was also created by herself, a little regret, she has not won the real world championship since her debut, and the abnormal performance of the competition has become a common problem for her to repeatedly lose the opportunity to win the championship, how to break through this bottleneck has become a key factor in whether she can surpass herself.
<h1>Ten: Gong Lijiao (shot put</h1>).
As the first woman in shot put today, run put veteran Gong Lijiao shoulders the heavy responsibility of winning gold for Chinese athletics at next year's Tokyo Olympic Games. This simple and stable Shijiazhuang girl has become an ace in the hands of active athletics countries after years of world competitions, winning two consecutive World Championships championships in 2017 and 2019, the overall championship of the Diamond League in 2017, and the first diamond league award to fully prove her unparalleled king status in the history of Chinese athletics.
Conclusion:
China's women's throwing event has never lacked awe-inspiring world-class athletes, the above ten athletes are only part of the highest level of throwing on behalf of our country, due to limited space, there are many famous players who have not been able to comment on them one by one. Comparatively speaking, China's men's throwing level is very humiliating to the Chinese people, in addition to the javelin event there are two short-lived athletes, the performance of the other three events in the world competition can be described as unbearable, even in the Asian level of the competition has always been japan, India, Iran and other countries athletes pressured, for China's athletics, especially the throwing event on the yin and yang phenomenon, what are the views and suggestions of the old irons? Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section!
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