She is a national weightlifter and grand slam winner, and at the age of 21 she has already won all the Championships, National Games, Asian Youth Championships, Asian Games, World Youth Championships and World Championships. She has retired three times and three times out of the sports arena, although her sports career is not "smooth", but as long as she pays, she will definitely win the gold medal. What exactly makes her go in and out of the sports world? In this issue, the Ziya Children's Fun Sports Observer and everyone know that Chen Yanqing, the first chinese women's weightlifting player in the history of consecutive Olympic gold medals, has won the Olympic games.
Chen Yanqing was born in May 1979 to a family of fruit growers in Xishan Town, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. She has been very lively and active since she was a child, often climbing trees with her friends in her spare time and catching knowledge, swimming in the river, just like a boy. In addition to being a little more naughty than other girls, Chen Yanqing is no different from other peers. At that time, she was still very new to sports, let alone weightlifting. All of this changed when she was 11 years old.
At that time, Chen Yanqing participated in the throwing softball project of the Primary School Athletics Games, and the whole process of this game was seen by the coach of Suzhou Amateur Sports School at that time. He asked Chen Yanqing after the game if he would like to follow him to Suzhou to participate in training. But at that time, Chen Yanqing had no concept of sports training at all, so she returned home to ask for her father's opinion.
Although Chen Yanqing's father did not know what the specific content of sports training was, the honest man understood that this was an opportunity, and if he seized it, his daughter could also stand on the world stage like a sports athlete on TV and win glory for the country. In this way, with the support of her father, Chen Yanqing, who knew nothing about weightlifting, went to Suzhou to participate in training.
Chen Yanqing, who has just arrived at the training base, has not been able to keep up with his teammates in the same period because he does not have any sports foundation. But she did not give up, but actively learned from the people around her, trained hard, and improved her strength.
In 1995, Chen Yanqing participated in the first Asian Youth Women's Weightlifting Championships and won the championship, and in the same year she was selected for the national team and began to step into a bigger stage. Since then, her career has been very brilliant, with countless gold medals in various formats, such as national championships, world youth championships, Asian Games, world championships, etc. But as an athlete, everyone hopes to have an Olympic gold medal in their career, and Chen Yanqing is no exception.
At that time, Chen Yanqing had already participated in the selection competition of the Sydney Olympic Games, and won the top spot with a total of 242 kg in the snatch and deadlift. Anyone who knows weightlifting knows that there are 7 sub-events in Olympic weightlifting, but each delegation can only choose to participate in 4 of them. For the Chinese team, the women's "dream team", participating in the Olympic Games means winning the gold medal. But at this time, a piece of news that turned out to be Chen Yanqing was missing the final venue of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
The news said that there is a player in North Korea, although he has not participated in any international competitions, but has been secretly trained, and his total score has reached 242 kilograms, which is comparable to Chen Yanqing. The weightlifting team, with the mentality of "rather believe what it has than not believe it has", disqualified the Chinese team from participating in the Sydney Olympic Games in the women's 58 kg category. This also means that Chen Yanqing's most advantageous game is gone.
The most infuriating thing is that with the sydney Olympic women's weightlifting event, this news is self-defeating. Because of an unconfirmed piece of false news, Chen Yanqing, who had a special skill, lost the possibility of winning gold.
After this, Chen Yanqing was very depressed, and her grades were also affected by her mentality and fell sharply. At the 9th China Games in 2001, she only finished third. It was also after this game that Chen Yanqing made the decision to retire for the first time in her life.
After retiring from the army, Chen Yanqing chose to study at Soochow University. Because she could not give up her special feelings for weightlifting in her heart, Chen Yanqing also worked as a weightlifting coach at the training base of the Jiangsu Provincial Weightlifting Team while studying. At that time, Chen Yanqing thought that her career was over, but her coach Cao Xinming contacted Chen Yanqing in 2003, hoping that she could make a comeback and win glory for the country.
The coach told Chen Yanqing that she is still young and can still fight again, and if she gives up now, she will never be able to participate in a big event again. After hearing this, Chen Yanqing experienced a struggle in his heart, and finally chose to make a comeback in August 2003 and was selected for the national team in May 2004. After her comeback, she has no confidence in herself. However, Chen Yanqing has never been a person who gives up lightly. In day-to-day training, she stabilized her total results in snatching and deadlifts at 247.5 kg, which surpassed the international athletes at that time.
In August 2004, the Athens Olympic Games arrived as scheduled, and with excellent selection results, Chen Yanqing successfully entered the final. He also meets his old rival, Lee Sung-hee from North Korea. This pair of "wrongdoers" are evenly matched, but Chen Yanqing still won the first gold medal of the Chinese women's weightlifting team at the Athens Olympic Games with a total score of 237.5 kg with a strong psychological quality and stable play.
Chen Yanqing proved with strength that setbacks would not defeat her. Subsequently, Chen Yanqing won the gold medals at the 10th Games and the East Asian Games. At this time, she realized her wish, so she chose to retire from success and chose to return to Soochow University to continue her studies.
In 2006, after hearing that China did not have a very prominent female weightlifter in the National Championships, Chen Yanqing chose to make a comeback again and successfully won the gold medal under the impetus of a sense of responsibility and mission in her heart. Later, at the Doha Asian Games, Chen Yanqing won the championship again with excellent results.
At the Asian Games, Chen Yanqing performed well, and won a gold medal known as "the highest gold content, the heaviest significance and the most valuable gold medal of the Chinese delegation at the Asian Games" with the miraculous result of breaking the three world records of the snatch, the deadlift and the total result. Subsequently, Chen Yanqing once again chose to retire in a low-key manner, because she was already 27 years old at this time, and strictly speaking, this age is not the best age for athletes.
Fast forward to 2007, when there was only a year left before the Beijing Olympics, and many people were persuading Chen Yanqing to make a comeback, and Chen Yanqing did not want to win a championship on his doorstep. But at that time, she hesitated, first, because she was not young as an athlete, and second, she had been training outside the country for many years, and she had never been able to accompany her family well. For Chen Yanqing's comeback, her father was not very willing.
Chen Yanqing's father knows how hard it is to practice weightlifting, this father does not want to let his daughter suffer again, he does not covet the name of the so-called "champion father", he only wants his daughter to find a suitable object and live the rest of her life happily.
Chen Yanqing is very entangled, she has listed two lists, weighing the pros and cons of comeback and non-comeback. Before the results were displayed, Chen Yanqing tore two pieces of paper, and in the depths of her consciousness, she always believed that weightlifting was something she could not give up in this life, and letting go and moving forward for her dreams was the most important thing she should do at present.
So she told her father about this decision, and Chen Yanqing clearly saw that tears were swirling in his father's eyes. In the end, Chen Yanqing's father still respected his daughter's choice.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Yanqing walked into the weightlifting arena with everyone's expectations. In the end, she lived up to expectations and successfully defended the gold medal in the 58 kg event, and broke the two Olympic records of the deadlift and the total result, becoming the first Chinese women's weightlifter to win a consecutive Olympic gold medal. After the Beijing Olympics, Chen Yanqing announced his official retirement.
After retiring for the third time, Chen Yanqing did not choose to be a coach, but served as the deputy director of the Suzhou Municipal Sports Bureau. With years of experience as an athlete and a passion and sense of responsibility for the weightlifting industry, Chen Yanqing strives to promote the development of weightlifting in Suzhou and is concerned about the weightlifting cause in China.
However, Chen Yanqing has been focusing on her weightlifting career for many years, so she has not been married until she retired from the army. There were once rich american businessmen who admired Chen Yanqing very much, and almost Chen Yanqing often came to the game and wanted to give Chen Yanqing a villa, but Chen Yanqing refused at that time. It was not until a few years after his retirement that Chen Yanqing began to consider his marriage.
Although Chen Yanqing has retired, she has become a legend in the history of Chinese women's weightlifting, realizing her personal and social value. She ignores the powerful and wealth, can guard against arrogance and impatience at any time, and takes root in China's weightlifting business with a simple heart, and the quality is really precious. Chen Yanqing's legendary life experience also tells us that we must hold a sincere and serious heart in everything to be able to do the things we love to the extreme.
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