At noon on August 30, Dong Chao, a representative of Chengdu athletes participating in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, successfully defended his title with a record-breaking performance in the R1-SH1 men's 10m air rifle standing event, and won the gold medal in the event again after the Rio Olympic Games, which was also the first gold medal of Sichuan athletes at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, and Dong Chao, a 36-year-old "elder of the four dynasties" who participated in the four Paralympic Games in Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo, also won his third Paralympic gold medal!
Dong Chao has three more shooting competitions to participate in, and I hope that he will continue to work hard and create brilliant achievements!
Dong Chaoneng, who lost his left leg at the age of 3, calmly faced the disaster,
After changing from table tennis to shooting, he showed his talent
Dong Chao was born in 1985, he was lively and cheerful as a child, but an unexpected car accident when he was 3 years old made him suffer the biggest disaster in his life. While playing on the side of the road, Dong Chao, who was hit by a truck, went through two major surgeries to defeat the "God of Death", but lost his left leg forever. Dong Chao, who has an optimistic personality, has always been able to face the car accident calmly, and he once told the Red Star News reporter that in the face of life, the amputation of the left leg is actually nothing. And his parents often gave him psychological counseling when he was a child, helping Xiao Dongchao establish a strong inner world, which also allowed him to be independent and self-reliant in life and work!
Tokyo Paralympic Men's 10m Air Rifle Standing R1-SH1 Final, Dong Chao won the gold medal and broke the Paralympic record According to IC photo
Even if Dong Chao, who is active by nature, loses his left leg, he still loves sports. In school, he could stand on one leg and play table tennis and basketball. Dong Chao worked as an auto mechanic after graduation, but due to the good play of table tennis, Dong Chao, who was only 19 years old in 2004, was given the opportunity to enter the provincial team trial training. At that time, under the advice of the provincial coach, Dong Chao tried shooting training, and as a result, when he first picked up an airsoft gun, he was able to shoot every shot, and the dispersion range was also very concentrated, which also began his shooting career. Under the systematic training, Dong Chao's talent in this sport has also been fully excavated.
More than ten years of shooting training has allowed Dong Chao to win more than 200 medals on the shooting field, becoming a real strongman in the project. At the National Games, he once won 5 gold medals. At the Beijing Paralympic Games, Dong Chao won two bronze medals. At the London Paralympic Games, Dong Chao achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals for Sichuan Province at the Paralympic Games. At the Rio Paralympic Games, Dong Chao not only won the gold again, but also the first gold of the Chinese delegation at the Paralympic Games, when the Chinese Disabled Persons' Federation, the State General Administration of Sport, and the Chinese Paralympic Committee all sent a telegram to congratulate Dong Chao on winning the first gold medal of the Rio Paralympic Games for the Chinese sports delegation.
The finals were unprecedentedly intense,
Dong Chao showed a strong psychological quality at a critical moment
On August 30, Dong Chao, who was playing for the fourth time in the Paralympic Games, was on the first day of the Tokyo Paralympic Games, and he was very calm after arriving in Tokyo, saying that he was already playing in the Paralympic Games for the fourth time, and the athletes who engaged in shooting were usually quiet, so they could also stop the water before the competition.
In the R1-SH1 men's 10m air rifle standing event qualification event held on the morning of August 30, Dong Chao finished 5th and advanced to the final. Interestingly, at the Rio Paralympic Games, he also broke through from the qualifiers to the final with a 5th place, and in the final, Dong Chao won the gold with a total score of 205.8 rings and broke the world record of the project. It wasn't until two years later that the world record was rewritten by Slovak players.
In the final at noon today, Dong Chao entered the state very quickly, and the first shot hit a good result of 10.5 rings. After the end of the first group of 5 shots, Dong Chao temporarily ranked third. But at the beginning of the second group, Dong Chao's five shots were all above 10 rings, namely 10.6 rings, 10.4 rings, 10.5 rings, 10.2 rings and 10.2 rings, and he also rose to the first place in a state of explosion!
Entering the knockout stage, India's Ankhalka also began to exert strength, he and Dong Chao alternately rose in the first place, and the competition was extremely white-hot. After the first 3 groups of the knockout round, Dong Chao was only 0.3 rings behind Onhalka. In group 4, Dong Chao only hit 9.6 rings in the first shot, but he quickly adjusted his form, and the second shot played the highest 10.8 rings of the game, rising to the first place again! And Anhakar only had 9.9 rings and 9.5 rings in the 4th group, and the ranking plummeted to the fourth place, in the most critical stage, Dong Chao showed his strong psychological quality! After that, the competition for the first place became a dispute between Dong Chao and South Korea's Park Jin-ho, and after group 5, Dong Chao temporarily ranked first with an advantage of 0.1 rings. In the most tense moment, Park Jin-ho made a major mistake, the first shot of the 6th group only hit 9.4 rings, while Dong Chao's shot hit 10.6 rings steadily. Before the final battle of the champions and runners-up in the last group, Dong Chao led the second place by 1.5 rings, and the gold medal was already in sight!
In the final championship and runner-up showdown, Dong Chao shot 10.0 rings and 10.3 rings respectively, and finally defeated the Ukrainian player Dorohinko who came up later with a record of 246.4 rings, and successfully won the gold medal!
Dong Chao has a happy family,
His parents never watched the game live
Dong Chao now has a happy family, he and his wife Huang Xuemei have a pair of children, although most of the time he spends training in the Sichuan Provincial Land Sports School or the national team in Beijing, but as long as there is a holiday, Dong Chao will spend time with his family. In the home of Dong Chao's parents, it is also full of photos of Dong Chao participating in the competition in various periods, but even if they are proud of their son, the old couple is still reluctant to go to the scene to watch their son's game.
In 2015, the 9th National Paralympic Games and the 6th Special Olympics games were held in Chengdu, and Dong Chao lit the flame as the main torchbearer of the event. At that time, in an interview with a Red Star News reporter, Dong Chao also revealed the reason why his parents did not come to watch his game, "The less interference the shooting competition scene, the better, if the family is present, I may be very excited, which is not conducive to play." ”
Therefore, Dong Chao's father Dong Zuyun and mother Zhong Zhenfu also hope to let their son unload the pressure and lightly pack in the game, not only will they not go to the scene to cheer for Dong Chao, but they generally will not take the initiative to contact their son during the game, but it is precisely because of the family's unconditional support and tolerance that Dong Chao can become an "evergreen tree" in the shooting class!
Red Star News reporter Jiang Shan
Edit Bao Chengli
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