Li Qian gave a thumbs up. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Beijing News (Special Tokyo reporter Sun Haiguang) In the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Boxing Women's MiddleWeight Final, Chinese boxer Li Qian lost to the top seed, British Player Lauren Price, and won the last medal of the Chinese delegation at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Today's two boxers did not initially practice boxing, and Li Qian, who is 1 meter 80 tall, first practiced basketball and only began to contact boxing in 2007. Lauren Price was a former professional footballer before practicing free-form fighting before finally starting boxing.
Born in 1990, Li Qian is one of the few female middleweight players in China, and she has won national championships since 2012. In 2015, Li Qian won the Asian Championship for the first time, successfully qualified for the Rio Olympic Games, and won a bronze medal.
In the Tokyo Olympics Sub-Region Boxing Qualifier last March, Li Qian won all competitions with an absolute advantage of 5-0. "Compared with the previous cycle, I am more mature than before, and my psychological and on-the-spot processing is more stable." Ms. Li, 31, said she was in a mature period, and the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics gave her more time to make up for her shortcomings.
Under the guidance of Zhang Chuanliang, the head coach of the Chinese team, Li Qian has an in-depth study of the wandering style of play and the robber style of play, "On the field, every technique must be known. These technical characteristics were also reflected in today's competition, but the helpless opponent performed better, and Li Qian finally lost to Price 0-5, winning the last medal of the Olympic Games for the Chinese delegation.
The Beijing News sent a special Tokyo reporter Sun Haiguang to edit Xiao Wanli