On July 24, 2021, the first day of the official start of the Tokyo Olympic Games. At 12:50 p.m., the women's 49 kg weightlifting competition was held in the Tokyo International Forum Building, which was also the second event in which the Chinese team participated, and with a roar, the second gold medal of the Chinese delegation to the Tokyo Olympic Games was born.
Hou Zhihui, a 24-year-old girl, won the gold medal in the women's weightlifting 49 kg category with a score of 94 kg in the snatch and 116 kg in the deadlift, which set a new record for the Olympic Games, and could not help but remind all the spectators of the thrilling scene of the weightlifting competition at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Tang Gonghong
On August 21, 2004, the women's 75 kg weightlifting competition was being held in the Athenian Nikea Weightlifting Hall, and the Chinese athletes failed twice in the snatching stage, ranking only 8th. After catching up in the deadlift stage, the Chinese player finally caught up to the second place.
In order to win glory for the country, but also in order to live up to her own efforts, this Chinese player made a bold decision, she wanted to challenge the 182.5 kg that had never been tried, which is a weight that no one in the world dared to try, once it failed, not only did not win the championship, but even crippled for life, but this Chinese girl had no remorse, she whispered to herself before going on stage: "Death will also die on the stage!" ”
Tang Gonghong won the championship
Kung Fu pays off, and this Chinese girl's "risking death" not only cited a new world record, but also cited China's 100th gold medal. However, after stepping down, the girl suddenly spewed blood from her nose, and her blood pressure soared rapidly. As she was carried backstage, the public completely lost her message.
Who is this girl who "risked death" to win the championship for the country? Why did she choose weightlifting? What happened after she stepped down? What kind of life did she live after returning to China? It all started with her hard childhood. Today's big guy's log will take you to know Tang Gonghong, who risked death at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games to win the national championship. Interested friends may wish to pay attention to the big guy's log, which is convenient for reviewing past video colors and not missing the latest content.
Tang Gonghong was born on March 5, 1979, to a poor family in Fushan District, Yantai, Shandong Province, to ordinary working-class parents. Although his father had a fixed income every month, most of it was spent on buying medicine for Tang Gonghong's grandmother, so their family's life was very poor.
As the saying goes, "The children of the poor are already in charge!" Living in such a family, Tang Gonghong began to help the family share the farm work early, and before the age of 10, she began to go up the mountain with her mother to cultivate the land. It is also this long-term physical labor that makes Tang Gonghong's meal volume more and more large. Just after turning 11, she weighed more than 60 kilograms and had great strength.
In order to tap her strength potential, Tang Gonghong's physical education teacher often instructed her to practice sports such as shot put and discus, and also tried his best to take her to the competition. By chance, Coach Zhang Jianmei of Fushan Sports School noticed Tang Gonghong's amazing explosiveness, and then suggested that she undergo professional weightlifting training, and Zhang Jianmei also went to Tang Gonghong's home to do her parents' ideological work
Practicing weightlifting is naturally a good thing, not only can win glory for the country, but also can get ahead, but if you want to enter the sports school, you need to pay 500 yuan tuition, which is undoubtedly a sky-high number for Tang Gonghong's family, who only earn 30 yuan per month, Tang Gonghong's father immediately refused.
But Tang Gonghong's mother, Wang Jinrong, is full of foresight, she hopes that her daughter can get out of such an unbearable original family, and she hopes that her daughter will see a different world.
In the end, Wang Jinrong traveled around the village and finally borrowed enough to borrow 500 yuan for tuition. On the occasion of parting, Tang Gonghong made a very firm commitment to his mother: "I will definitely train hard and earn countless 500 yuan in the future to honor you." Wang Jinrong, who was originally full of confidence in his daughter, suddenly received a call from Fukuyama Sports School a few days later.
Tang Gonghong's mother, Wang Jinrong
Coach Zhang Jianmei said with concern on the phone: "Tang Gonghong has been clamoring to go home, take her back!" You go back and think about it for a few days and see if you want her to continue. ”
In just a few days of training, Tang Gonghong was already full of injuries, and his hands were full of blood bubbles, but compared with these, Tang Gonghong could not bear the huge psychological pressure. She knew very well that in order to get herself into this sports school, the whole family was saddled with a lot of foreign debt, and the work in the field was all done by her mother alone. As soon as he thought of this, Tang Gonghong's heart was not a taste, but also an unintentional training.
Tang Gonghong and his mother
After Wang Jinrong brought his daughter Tang Gonghong home, he said to her in a serious tone: "If you want to get a better life, you must rely on your own efforts to fight, even if your family is poor, as long as you are willing to work hard, I will definitely provide you for training." Hearing her mother's words, Tang Gonghong made up her mind completely, and she vowed to make some achievements. The next morning, Tang Gonghong said goodbye to her parents and ran toward the sports school without turning back, but what she didn't know was that the day after she went back, her sister chose to drop out of school.
In order to live up to her mother's expectations and to complete her dreams, Tang Gonghong put all her thoughts on weight training after returning to sports school, practicing until late at night almost every day, in addition to completing the tasks assigned by the coach, she would practice for an additional 2 hours.
In 1993, there was a large sports competition in Shandong Province, including weightlifting. In order to let Tang Gonghong compete smoothly, her coach finally won a place in the competition through various efforts. What made the coach excited was that Tang Gonghong not only won the first place in the snatch, the deadlift and the overall result in this competition, but also the results were close to the national record at that time. For a time, Tang Gonghong became the object of competition among major sports schools.
In January 1994, Tang Gonghong entered the Weihai Training Base in Shandong Province for training, and participated in more and more provincial competitions, and his strength became stronger and stronger. 2 years later, Tang Gonghong was admitted to the Shandong Provincial Team, and since then she has begun to participate in some large-scale competitions at the national level, and her strength has also been seen by more and more people, and soon, Tang Gonghong has received an olive branch from the national team, and since then she has officially begun her dream olympic road.
In fact, as early as 2000, Tang Gonghong almost shined at the Sydney Olympic Games. In 1998, Tang Gonghong was selected for the national team in order to prepare for the Sydney Olympic Games, but later the national weightlifting team chose Tang Gonghong's teammate Ding Meiyuan to participate for comprehensive consideration.
After 2 years of hard training, but finally missed her dream of the Olympic Games, when she first learned the news, Tang Gonghong did have a little loss in her heart, but she was soon relieved. Tang Gonghong said to himself in his heart: "It must be that I have not trained hard enough, and my strength is not strong enough!" Since then, Tang Gonghong has worked harder in training, and it has become more and more difficult to set training goals for himself. In order to successfully participate in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Tang Gonghong did not miss any opportunity to prove his strength.
In 2001, Tang Gonghong participated in the 9th National Games as a Shandong team, and finally won the national championship in the women's 75 kg category with a total score of 312.5 kg. It was also from this time that Tang Gonghong's name began to have a place in the hearts of audiences across the country.
In 2002, Tang Gonghong participated in the Busan Asian Games as a Chinese team, which was also her first time to go abroad to participate in international competitions, and she finally won the overall championship with a score of 167.5 kg and broke the world women's record for more than 75 kg in the deadlift. In the same year, Tang Gonghong finished second in the women's weightlifting world championships, but this was far from enough for Tang Gonghong, because in her heart, only the champion is a real victory.
Before 2004, no matter how hard the training was for Tang Gonghong, she never said a "tired" word because the training intensity was too great, because she had only one goal, that is, to be the weightlifting champion at the Athens Olympic Games. Although Tang Gonghong knew that the Olympic Games were as strong as clouds, she was also ready for everything. But what Tang Gonghong did not expect was that when he arrived at the field, Tang Gonghong still encountered a fierce enemy, and in order to defeat this opponent, Tang Gonghong even almost risked his life.
In weightlifting, athletes have 6 chances to try, grab and jerk 3 times, and then use the best result in each event as the final result. However, at the beginning of the women's weightlifting competition at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Tang Gonghong fell into the inferior position.
The first thing to start was the grasping link, and Tang Gonghong failed the first two snatches due to reasons such as water and soil dissatisfaction and physical discomfort, and South Korea's Zhang Meilan ranked first, while Tang Gonghong only ranked 8th, with a difference of nearly 10 kg with Zhang Meilan's performance. But such a big gap did not make Tang Gonghong concede defeat, and she decided to chase the gap back in the deadlift link.
With the start of the deadlift link, South Korea's Zhang Meilan successfully lifted a weight of 165 kilograms in the first move, which also made the Korean weightlifting team mistakenly think that they had won the game, and even many Koreans have made a move to celebrate winning the championship.
If Tang Gonghong, who ranks low in the grasping link, wants to impact the championship, then she must ensure that she lifts at least 172.5 kilograms of weight, after two attempts, Tang Gonghong finally equaled the results with Zhang Meilan, but because Tang Gonghong's weight is heavier, it temporarily ranks second.
In order to completely win the championship, Zhang Meilan completely used the killer skill in the last move, successfully lifting a weight of 172.5 kilograms. The competition has progressed to this point, and the enthusiasm of the audience has boiled to the extreme, especially the Korean audience has taken out the national flag and begun to show off.
If Tang Gonghong wanted to realize her dream of winning the championship, she had to lift a weight of 182.5 kilograms, a weight that no one in the world dared to challenge at that time. Out of consideration for Tang Gonghong's life safety, her coach advised: "Don't be strong, be conservative, it is also good to take a runner-up." ”
For this game, Tang Gonghong waited for a whole 4 years, during which she suffered so much and suffered many injuries, only she herself knew, how could a silver medal make her satisfied? For the sake of national honor and to live up to his efforts, Tang Gonghong decided to risk his life to lift 182.5 kilograms.
Before stepping onto the competition stage, Tang Gonghong silently said in his heart: "Even if you die, you will die on the stage!" After all, for her, if she can't win the championship, it will be worse than death, so she decided to fight for her life."
For Tang Gonghong's move to challenge the weight of 182.5 kilograms, many foreigners at the scene scoffed, and even some foreign judges felt that she was incapable of her own strength, but in the end, Tang Gonghong used her own strength to prove that the champion was none other than her.
When Tang Gonghong successfully lifted the barbell overhead, the entire stadium fell into a brief silence, followed by a deafening cheer, Tang Gonghong not only achieved a shocking reversal, but also broke two world records.
In the cheers of the crowd, Tang Gonghong walked off the competition stage with difficulty, but before she could sit down, there was constantly blood flowing out of her nose. This scene was captured by many reporters at the scene, and for a time, various rumors appeared on the Internet that Tang Gonghong's life was in danger. But in fact, Tang Gonghong's body was not only not in serious trouble, but also lived a happy and happy life after returning to China.
Due to the overload of weightlifting in the Athens Olympic Games, Tang Gonghong, who had just returned to China, did have some slight physical discomfort, and after a series of examinations in the hospital, it was found that Tang Gonghong's blood pressure had reached the level of low pressure 120 high pressure 170, and the doctor said to her very seriously: "If you are no longer hospitalized for treatment, and then continue to adhere to a large amount of exercise, the blood vessels are very likely to burst." ”
Forced to do so, Tang Gonghong had to choose to retire and leave the arena where she had insisted on for more than ten years, but she was still unwilling to give up her beloved weightlifting career. During his return to Shandong to recuperate, Tang Gonghong insisted on serving as a coach at the Weihai Training Base, which lasted until 2007, when he approached the Beijing Olympic Games, Tang Gonghong once again had the idea of winning glory for the country.
In order to restore her body to its best state as soon as possible, Tang Gonghong has been training day and night since returning to the national team, but soon she found that her blood pressure had soared again. As a last resort, Tang Gonghong had to give up his qualification for the Beijing Olympic Games.
In this way, Tang Gonghong, who refused to accept defeat, made a comeback many times, but each time he was defeated by the disease, until October 2009, Tang Gonghong held back tears and announced his permanent retirement.
For such a hero who won honor for the country, for such a veteran of weightlifting with rich experience, the state naturally could not make her chill, after Tang Gonghong won the championship, the state immediately rewarded her with a four-bedroom and two-hall house, as well as 2 million in cash. After Tang Gonghong announced his retirement, he was quickly promoted to deputy director of the base by the Shandong Weihai Sports Training Base. In addition to his career, Tang Gonghong also gained his own love shortly after retiring from the army.
In May 2012, Tang Gonghong, through the introduction of relatives, met Sun Aimin, the manager of a property company in Weihai, although the two engaged in different industries, but there are many common topics. Half a year later, two young people who admired each other joined hands into the palace of marriage, and soon after the marriage, the two gave birth to a son and formed a happy family of three.
Today's Tang Gonghong not only has a stable and loving job, but also has a husband who loves himself and a lovely son, which can be said to envy others.
Tang Gonghong and his wife
"The sword blade comes out of the grinding, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold!" No one can succeed gently and loosely, and no one will fail conscientiously. Through his years of hard work, Tang Gonghong not only realized his dream, but also bought a happy life. Each of us should set out for the sun, believing that in the end we will all get our own spring blossoms.
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