This Chinese women's volleyball player is tall and big, her slam kill has reached more than 300 pounds, and even smashed the Japanese player in the game, she is once the main attacker of the Chinese women's volleyball team's trough period, the glorious No. 1 jersey owner.
Wang Yimei, known as the "heavy gunner", what legendary experience does she have as the main force of the women's volleyball team? Why was he abandoned after Lang Ping ascended to the throne? And what about her, who has never announced her retirement and rarely appears?
Wang Yimei is a Liaoning girl born in 1988, unlike girls of the same age, Wang Yimei has a great advantage in height since childhood, so the family thinks that she must be a talent in sports, so she has embarked on the road of sports.
In fact, Wang Yimei did not specialize in volleyball at the beginning, but practiced swimming for many years.
At the age of 7, Wang Yimei was excavated by a swimming coach and began her short swimming time.
When he was 10 years old, Wang Yimei was already 1.75 meters tall, which made many older children look out of reach, and it was a good seedling for practicing volleyball. Therefore, after some thought, Wang Yimei and her parents unanimously decided to transfer to volleyball.
So how did Wang Yimei perform when she turned into a volleyball player when she was a teenager?
Wang Yimei used his own efforts and strength to prove that the coach did not look at the wrong person at the beginning, and his choice was not wrong.
Less than three years after training volleyball, Wang Yimei was selected into the Liaoning women's volleyball team, and after a year, she became the main force of the Chinese women's volleyball youth team, when she was only 15 years old!
This year, she rose to prominence at the World Youth Championships, won the second place, became the MVP of that game, and then she was recruited into the national team and became a key player cultivated by coach Chen Zhonghe.
By the age of 16, Wang Yimei had grown to 1.9 meters, taking full advantage of her height and weight, making her slam serve very powerful.
Under the careful cultivation of the coach, Wang Yimei became the brightest star in the trough of the women's volleyball team in 2006!
At that year's World Championships, Wang Yimei scored the most points for the team, and in the later Asian Games in Doha, she won the gold medal with a single blow! Her excellent performance has attracted the attention of the outside world, and at the same time, Lang Ping has been full of praise.
However, after this year, Wang Yimei ushered in the trough of her career.
In 2007, Wang Yimei's weight suddenly plummeted, which made her move a little slower, and every time she jumped and landed, it was a heavy blow to her knees, so she made up her mind to launch a devilish weight loss plan.
Since then, she has lost 20 pounds in 20 days and 36 pounds in two months, but when she lost her ideal weight, her toes were broken! It was a waste of a year of her training.
Therefore, after recovering, her state was very unstable, and she repeatedly made mistakes in the game.
But fortunately, Wang Yimei's recovery ability is very fast, she adjusted her state and trained hard, and finally returned to the peak again at the 2008 Olympic Games, and she was the player with the most points in the team, ranking second in the Olympic scoring list!
Unfortunately, the time and place are also favorable, and the women's volleyball team at that time was in a period of great blood change, and she missed the golden period of her olympic championship.
So how did Wang Yimei's title of "heavy gunner" come about?
At the 2011 World Cup, Wang Yimei slammed a violent buckle on the head of Japan's Saori Kimura, directly knocking the person unconscious, and was found to have a slight concussion, when her ball speed could reach 89km/h.
This is not the first time this has happened, in a 2008 match, Saori was also hit and fainted, when she regained consciousness actually hurt to tears.
As a result, Wang Yimei's power shocked countless people. How powerful is she?
To this end, the Japanese also conducted a special study, they simulated her ball speed to fire at the karate special bricks, and actually smashed 4 pieces in one fell swoop! In the end, it was also measured that her slam lethality actually reached 150 kg.
However, as Wang Yimei grew older, her former legacy of injuries and weight shortcomings gradually appeared, her offensive speed became slower, and her bouncing ability was not as good as before, so her pass was not high and it was easy to be taken down by the opponent, coupled with her average defensive ability, she became a target in the game.
At that time, after Lang Ping took over the women's volleyball team, for the long-term development of the women's volleyball team, he gave up the 26-year-old Wang Yimei and chose Zhu Ting instead. Wang Yimei also gradually faded out of the national team.
However, she has never announced her retirement, so what is Wang Yimei doing now?
Now she is already the executive director of the Liaoning Women's Volleyball Club, and she has not given up volleyball, has been training silently, will continue to compete in the Volleyball Super League as a team member, but also manage the development of the club, cultivate more good seedlings of volleyball.
Wang Yimei said that she does not want to retire and does not want to leave the volleyball field she loves, she will always stick to her dream until the day when she can't move!
It seems that this veteran has not given up his dedication to volleyball! Are you looking forward to seeing her at future competitions?