Mention China's first gold medal at the Olympic Games, everyone knows Xu Haifeng. Xu Haifeng won the men's pistol 60 rounds of slow fire at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, becoming the first gold medalist of the Olympic Games and the first Olympic champion in China, achieving a breakthrough of "zero" gold medals in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games.
Xu Haifeng worked as a fertilizer salesman at a supply and marketing cooperative at the age of 22. In 1982, he joined the Anhui Provincial Shooting Team and began his shooting career.
In 1983, Xu Haifeng won the medal in the first major event of his life: two silver medals at the Five Games. A year later, in 1984, Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal of the Olympic Games in the men's self-gun event at the Olympic Games, the 50-meter pistol slow-fire gold medal, which was the "breakthrough of zero" for the Chinese Olympic gold medal. 20 years later, when a reporter interviewed how he felt about becoming the first athlete to win a gold medal, Xu Haifeng responded that he was the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic gold medal only because of the earlier shooting event. The priceless gold medal is now on display at the Museum of the Chinese Revolution.
Xu Haifeng won three championships at the 1986 Asian Games, including breaking the world record in the pistol event. Later, the national shooting broke the world record again. In 1990, he won four gold medals at the Beijing Asian Games, and a year later, the World Airsoft Championship and the five gold medals at the Asian Championships added more color to Xu Haifeng's shooting career.
At the end of 1994, Xu Haifeng retired as the head coach of the national women's pistol, later became the deputy head coach of the national shooting team, and in 2001 he served as the head coach of the national shooting team, and then became the deputy director of the shooting center of the State General Administration of Sports in June.
Xu Haifeng's disciples include Du Li, Tao Luna, Wang Chengyi and other famous shooters, most of whom are Olympic medalists. Xu Haifeng won the Best Coach Award at the China Television Sports Awards in 2003, jointly issued by the Chinese Olympic Committee, the All-China Sports Federation and CCTV.
In 2005, Xu Haifeng became the deputy director of the Bicycle and Fencing Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport.
In November 2017, he ceased to serve as the deputy director of the Bicycle Fencing Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport.
As for the winner of China's first Olympic silver medal, Yang Chuanguang. In 1960, he participated in the 17th Olympic Games in Rome, Italy, and won a silver medal in ten sports, which was the first silver medal in China and the first Olympic medal in Taiwan Province of China!
Yang Chuanguang, born on July 10, 1933 in Taitung Hall, Taiwan Province, is an Ami of the Malan tribe. He represented China in the Olympic decathlon competition and won the silver medal at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, which was also China's first Olympic medal. He is also the record holder of a 9,000-point breaker in the history of the decathlon, nicknamed the "Asian Ironman".
Before Yang Chuanguang became famous in the early days, his earliest contact with the sport was baseball, and during the Three-Army Games, Yang Chuanguang played for the Joint Logistics or Taitung baseball teams as a pitcher. Although he did not play a good result, he also invisibly laid a solid foundation in running, jumping and throwing, and in 1951, after graduating from Taitung Agricultural School, he entered the joint logistics track and field team and won the championship with a long jump of seven meters and thirty-two meters in the Games. He was later appreciated and funded by Kwan, and won his first decathlon gold medal at the 1954 Asian Games in Manila. After Yang Chuanguang was selected from the list of candidates for the Chinese team, because of an episode, Yang Chuanguang changed from "sparring" to "regular candidate" and then into the ranks of "regular selection list". This happened two years after the Chinese Sports Commission trained at the Zuoying Training Center (that is, the Zuoying National Training Center affiliated to the Sports Department of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China today, referred to as the "Left Training Center" or the "National Training Center"), and is preparing for the Manila Asian Games, and is strengthening military training and preparing in the form of training and training. It was just when Yang Chuanguang was ordered to be a runner, to accompany the quasi-national players who were selecting the waiting list to practice running, and when the training time began, Yang Chuanguang actually ran in the two-hundred-meter race to win the main selection candidate. To the astonishment of the selection committee members present, Guan Songsheng, who happened to be inspecting the scene, immediately issued instructions to let Yang Chuanguang enter the waiting list, let Yang Chuanguang accept the training menu of the main selection list, and gradually cultivate Yang Chuanguang. Later in the Asian Athletics Championships, although Yang Chuanguang only won the sixth place in the event, he had let the Sports Committee discover Yang Chuanguang, the tomorrow's star who might win medals in the future, and Yang Chuanguang has been gradually thriving under the cultivation of Guan Songsheng and others, and has opened a track and field life that has been winning awards and even winning medals and trophies in the world's large and small sports events for more than ten years. Four years later, he broke the Asian Games record at the Tokyo Asian Games and won the decathlon gold medal again. He then went to study at UCLA, where he practiced under Coach Derek with Silver Medalist Lafford Johnson at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and the two became lifelong friends. They also participated in the decathlon competition at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, yang Chuanguang in the game although there were seven events ahead of Johnson, but in the shot put too far behind, and finally lost with a slight gap of 58 points, Johnson won the gold, Yang Chuanguang won the silver medal. Yang Chuanguang thus became the first athlete from Taiwan Province of China to win a medal at the Olympic Games. In the last project, 1500 meters, after the two reached the finish line, Johnson collapsed on Yang Chuanguang, and the scene of the two supporting each other also became the focus of the camera. After the game, some spectators even shouted: "Give both of them gold medals!" On January 26, 1963, Yang Chuanguang broke the world record in pole vaulting with a score of 4.96 meters at the International Athletics Invitational Tournament in Portland, USA. On April 28 of the same year, he set a new world record for the decathlon at the San Antonio Hill College Athletics Competition in Walnut City, California, with 9121 points, becoming the first person in the history of the decathlon to break 9,000 points, and the way the decathlon was scored changed. Converted to the current scoring method, the score of 8010 points is still the current national record of Taiwan Province of China. Thanks to the new scoring standard, it was not until 2001 that Roman Schebler again broke through the 9,000-point mark.
After Yang Chuanguang left the sports field, he served as the coach and general supervisor of the Zuoying Training Center, and cultivated good players such as Gu Jinshui and Li Fuen. And because his wife and children are in the United States, he often travels between the United States and Taiwan. Yang Chuanguang was awarded the American Amateur Sports Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, proposed the Plan to Rebuild the Ten Kingdoms of Asia in 1999, and was admitted to Chang Gung Hospital in Kaohsiung for liver cancer and cirrhosis in 2001. On January 24, 2007, he was sent to the hospital in California for a stroke, and Lafoe Johnson also rushed to visit, but he still passed away on January 28, 2007, at the age of 73.
China's first Olympic bronze medalist was Ji Zheng, the first female bronze medalist.
Ji Zheng was born on March 15, 1944 in the countryside of Niupu, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu Prefecture, Taiwan (now Niupu-ri, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu City), the son of Ji Qingchi, who is of Taiwanese aboriginal Daokas ancestry, and his mother, Ms. Ji Wangwei, is a Member of the Xinpu Hakka family. She is explosive and specializes in athletics such as sprinting, hurdles, high jump, long jump and more. In 1968, at the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City, more than 2,000 meters above sea level, Ji Zheng represented Taiwan in the women's track and field 100 meter final, becoming the first Asian to qualify for the women's 100 meter final of the Summer Olympic Games (the first Asian to advance to the summer Olympics men's 100 meters final was Japan's Yoshioka Lund); Ji Zheng also advanced to the women's 80 meters hurdles final in athletics and won the bronze medal in the third place in the final. It was the first medal won at the Olympic Games representing a female athlete from Taiwan Province. She is also the second Taiwanese athlete to win an Olympic medal and advance to the finals after Yang Chuanguang won a silver medal in the men's decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics.