She was once the most dominant world-class star in the history of the Chinese short track speed skating team; she dedicated her 77 gold medals to the Championship Pavilion.
Today, she has transformed herself into a head coach for speed skating. But whether it was before or now, in our eyes she is what we call the "red whirlwind" Wang Mao.
In this issue, the Ziya Children's Fun Sports Observer will lead everyone to know Wang Meng.
She was born on July 9, 1984 in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang Province. Perhaps because of the geographical location, Wang Meng has loved to deal with ice and snow since he was a child.
In her childhood, she often went to the river to skate in the winter, and when she was ten years old, because she had a strong talent in skating, she was selected by the coach to go to professional training and participate in professional competitions.
At that time, because she was too young and a girl, there was no ice knife suitable for Wang Meng, so the coach spent a lot of time and energy just to find a suitable ice knife for her.
The coach's hard work Wang Meng also sees in her eyes, and she hopes to be able to repay the coach by relying on her own efforts to achieve results.
In the process of training, she worked harder than the average cadet, and at the age of 16, she was called up to the national team for her excellent performances.
Soon after joining the national team, she won the women's 500m title at the 2002 World Junior Championships.
Winning the championship for the first time did not let Wang Meng relax, she continued to insist on high-intensity training, and in 2006, she ushered in the peak moment of her life, she won her first Olympic gold medal in the 500-meter short track speed skating Olympic competition.
Wang's Olympic gold medal honor did not stop there, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the Chinese team won the only gold medal in short track speed skating.
Wang Meng began by being selected to skate, singing all the way and becoming the gold medal winner in the eyes of everyone.
For her, winning the gold medal seems to be a handy one, and after several gold medals, this makes Wang Meng more and more confident on the track, and the more courageous he is.
After winning the championship in 2006, in the following competitions, the status of the champion was more like being dominated by her.
From 2007 to 2009, in just three years, Wang Meng won thirty gold medals, and she was the real gold medal overlord.
Whether it is the World Championships or the stage of the World Cup, Wang Meng's winning three golds is "commonplace", and he is also the champion of the women's all-around.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, in 2010, Wang Meng, who has been singing all the way to the present, has become the object of worship of many people, and in the Vancouver Winter Olympics held this year, she once again broke the Olympic odds with her own strength.
In addition to winning the gold medal in the women's 500 meters of short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics, she also helped the Chinese team win the gold medal in the women's 3000 meters relay event, achieving a breakthrough in the winter Olympics collective event.
Far more than that, Wang Meng also won the gold medal in the 1,000 meters, becoming the first triple crown in the history of Chinese short track, and a Chinese athlete who won three gold medals in an Olympic Games after Li Ning and Zou Kai.
Her astonishing results quickly became popular on the Internet. In the face of the interview, Wang Meng also confidently said, "I don't want the second, I want the championship."
Indeed, at that time, Wang Meng was the first overlord and the overlord of the gold medal, so saying the sentence of not wanting the second did not make others feel that she was conceited.
We all know that the speed of short-track speed skating is very fast, according to calculations, it may reach a speed of fifty kilometers per hour.
Because the speed is very fast, in order to ensure safety, most athletes will choose to support the ground with their hands when cornering, giving themselves a fulcrum to prevent falling.
And Wang Meng's backhand sliding trick is to use hand support when bending, backhand operation, which is difficult for many players to complete, so she uses her backhand to slide to show her strength.
But there is one drawback to backhand slippage that is that it is easy to get injured.
With 22 days to go before the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, something unfortunate happened.
At that time, Wang Meng was still seriously training to cope with this competition, but in the process of training, due to mistakes, he finally caused two fibula fractures in his right ankle.
We often say that it will be a hundred days before the opening of the Olympic Games, which means that Wang Meng will not be able to participate in this Winter Olympic Games.
At the Sochi Winter Olympics, everyone did not see Wang Meng, and in the subsequent international competitions, everyone did not see Wang Meng's figure.
Slowly, Wang Meng disappeared from the public's field of vision, in fact, during the period of disappearance, Wang Meng did not rest.
She has participated in many variety shows and opened a company, but this does not make Wang Meng very happy, because she still thinks about her short track speed skating.
After much deliberation, in the spring of 2018, she plucked up the courage to write a cover letter to the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China, hoping to coach the national short track speed skating team.
For Wang Meng, the reason why she was able to summon up enough courage to introduce herself to the National Sports Bureau was mainly because of her love for sports, and she thought she should summon up enough courage to rush forward.
Now she is much calmer than before, and pays more attention to athletes and coaches than before.
After that, Wang Meng finally returned to his dream path as usual and became the head coach of short skating.
When she took over the team, the team wasn't all roller skaters, but also cyclists, so the team as a whole wasn't very strong.
But Wang Meng's strength is not lost, under her leadership, through five months of hard training, the Chinese speed skating national team in October 2018 in The Calgary Short Track Speed Skating West Classic, successfully won the championship of a total of 8 men's and women's events.
After the excellent results of the national team under her leadership, Wang Meng was appointed as the head of the coaching team of the short track speed skating and speed skating national team in May 2019.
After the "promotion", she has to be responsible for more projects, mainly speed skating and short track speed skating.
Although she was once a general who won the chinese speed skating national team under her leadership, it was difficult to convince the public because she only had one year of coaching experience, which made many fans question Wang Meng.
After all, short track speed skating is an important gold medal winning project in China at the Winter Olympics, and the 2022 Winter Olympics is coming, this time it is held at the doorstep of our country, so speed skating is of great significance to our country.
In the face of all kinds of doubts, Wang Meng wanted to prove himself with his own achievements, so he made many innovations in training methods.
Her training methods mainly have two points, the first is the "strict" word, and the second is to hire an excellent coaching team.
In her daily training, she conducts high-intensity training, and each time she trains, she not only asks her students to sing the national anthem, but also asks foreign teachers to sing the national anthem.
Ideologically, Wang Meng has made every student and every coach come up with full motivation to train.
In terms of strategy, Wang Meng added a part-time team and carried out rigorous training for the cornering part, and she mainly improved the center of gravity of straight-line sliding by practicing short-track strengthening and short-track sports.
For many good players, this approach can maximize their potential and improve their performance.
In terms of coach selection, in addition to inviting well-known coaches in her country, she also hired Zhang Jing from Hungary as a consultant and Kim Sun-tae from South Korea as a coach.
Whether her training style has worked well still needs to be proven by the results of the game.
In the 2019-2020 short track speed skating World Cup Salt Lake City station, after fierce competition, the Chinese team finally achieved good results, winning 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze, ranking first in the medal table and second in the gold medal list.
These achievements prove that the Chinese team is strong, and also prove that the method used by Wang Meng is correct. This also makes Chinese fans more confident about speed skating.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is approaching, and Wang Meng also expressed her determination in an interview with reporters, telling reporters: "No matter what I am, it may be difficult for you to win me!" ”
We also believe that under the leadership of gold medal coach Wang Meng, China's short-speed skating will have a different landscape.
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