"Weightlifting King" Zhan Xugang: Retired at the age of 30, married his first love stewardess and set sail for this career.

Editor captain Zhang

"Some people hope for a miracle, some people pray for a miracle, and the rest let it happen."

Zhan Xugang is a miracle worker.

In the men's weightlifting 77kg final of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, he performed a miraculous reversal. When his muscles could hardly hold on, he just lifted 207.5kg, breaking his own record and inspiring countless people.

Because of him, China's "weightlifting" project began to enter everyone's field of vision.

Born in Kaihua County, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, Zhan Xugang is an out-and-out rural baby.

"Going out of the countryside to a bigger stage" has always been the voice in Zhan Xugang's heart. Behind the bigger stage, it often means hundreds of times more teeth than ordinary people, countless squats and clean and jerk, and looting day after day.

It was not easy for Zhan Xugang to walk from a small county to a world-class stadium, but fortunately he walked down and left an indelible mark.

Zhan Xugang's talent is not outstanding, but can only be said to be "superior to ordinary people". Some people regard this natural "preference" as a reward for food given by God, and without using it, they create a tragedy of "hurting Zhong Yong". Some people seize this advantage, keep exploring and build a pedal for life. Zhan Xugang is undoubtedly the latter.

Born in 1974, Zhan Xugang loved sports since he was a child. His peers love playing games, but he doesn't. His peers are addicted to animation. He is addicted to the fun of sports. Not only that, Zhan Xugang is a veritable "little git". He always eats more than his peers when exercising.

The school sports meeting is Zhan Xugang's solo show, and Zhan Xugang is present in both field and track events. His shot put, standing long jump and running are among the best, especially favored by PE teachers. With his outstanding sports achievements, he was appointed as the physical education committee member of the class by the class teacher.

As a leading weightlifter in China, Zhan Xugang had no idea what "weightlifting" was before 10, let alone his love.

The story of Zhan Xugang and weightlifting cannot be separated from coach Zhu Yuner, who has a pair of discerning eyes. Bole knows a swift horse, and coach Zhu Yuner found Zhan Xugang, an unpolished rough jade.

By chance, Zhu Yuner found Zhan Xugang, whose physique and explosive power meet the requirements of weightlifting. By looking at his competition records and physical data, he strengthened his point of view and threw an olive branch to the young Zhan Xugang. Zhan Xugang, who loves sports very much, agreed without hesitation, but his parents were worried.

Parents hope that Zhan Xugang will study hard, get out of the countryside through study and get married. They are worried that lifting weights will stop Zhan Xugang's height and be bad for his health.

Coach Zhu Yuner expressed his understanding and confided in this, and finally made Zhan Xugang's parents nod in agreement. Zhan Xugang joined the weightlifting team coached by Zhu Yuner and started his weightlifting career in the county sports commission.

After entering the Sports Commission, Zhan Xugang found that his specialty was not outstanding here.

Tough as Zhan Xugang, he studied weightlifting knowledge seriously and participated in weightlifting training. In addition to daily training, Zhan Xugang also actively collected various books related to weightlifting, carefully studied the muscle strength points of weightlifters, and devoted himself to weightlifting.

Over time, Zhan Xugang's persistence day after day and his achievements in weightlifting are amazing and surprising. In the first game of his life, he listed four amazing achievements.

I was arrested by the Zhejiang weightlifting team and left the county sports commission, which had been training for three years.

Coming to a bigger training ground, accompanied by more professional equipment and precise guidance, Zhan Xugang is still in Do not forget your initiative mind, and he firmly believes that his stage is not this world.

In addition to controlling his diet and weight every day, he trains harder and harder, although this is only his normal state.

This rough jade has been discovered again. Zhan Xugang, 1993, age 19, was selected into the national weightlifting team and began to prepare for the national campaign.

Zhan Xugang started a stricter training program, with heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, but his squatting posture is more secure. He firmly believes that his venue is the Olympic Games, and his goal is to represent the gold medal of national honor.

1996 The Atlanta Olympic Games arrived as scheduled. It's time to show your sword! In the men's 70kg class, Zhan Xugang shines brilliantly. This dark horse beat many world masters, won the Olympic gold medal in one fell swoop, and broke three world records of snatch, clean and jerk and total score.

This remarkable achievement has pushed the weightlifting project into China people's field of vision, which is a milestone start.

Standing on the top of the world, Zhan Xugang soon received the news that made him bolt from the blue. The World Sports Organization cancelled Zhan Xugang's scheduled men's 70kg class competition and promoted it to 77kg class.

This means that all previous models need to be re-planned, including Zhan Xugang's weight and training plan.

This change was like a bolt from the blue for Zhan Xugang, who was in the limelight at that time. As soon as the news came out, many players in the same session chose to leave. Zhan Xugang chose to stay after careful consideration for his favorite weightlifting and his burning ambition.

Then I fell into an unprecedented trough, gained weight, adjusted my training plan and gained weight. Everything seems to be going on in an orderly way, but only Zhan Xugang knows that his heart is in a state of confusion and uncertainty.

What remains unchanged is his posture. He strictly carried out the training plan, controlled his weight and remained diligent and dedicated.

In the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, Zhan Xugang made a miraculous turnaround and won the second Olympic gold medal in his life. But behind this gold medal, Zhan Xugang added another person to the thank-you list, that is, Jian Yao, the flight attendant he met before.

Jian Yao is a stewardess of China International Airlines. During a flight, Zhan Xugang fell in love with Jian Yao, who was outstanding in temperament and beautiful in appearance.

When Jian Yao learned that Zhan Xugang was the Olympic champion of weightlifting, he secretly promised the men's championship.

The two of them have a secret love, and this meeting is the beginning of their feelings.

Looking back on the 2000 Olympic Games, I still feel thrilling.

In the first game of 77kg class, Zhan Xugang's performance was not ideal, and he only ranked fourth. I called 167kg twice and failed. Just when everyone was frustrated and felt sorry, he challenged the 207.5kg that he had never lifted. Only in this way can he completely regain the score and win the game.

At this critical moment, Zhan Xugang caught a glimpse of Jian Yao cheering for him under the stage, not knowing that she would come. And she may not know, because her arrival gave him confidence that he had never had before. Successfully challenged 207.5kg!

Zhan Xugang became the first athlete in the history of China to win two consecutive Olympic weightlifting championships! Established the position of "the first weightlifter" in China.

With the continuous emergence of back waves and the decline of body-related functions, Zhan Xugang realized that he was "old".

At the age of weightlifting, when he retired, his body has entered its heyday and his explosive power is also declining. But that innocent heart hasn't changed.

Zhan Xugang, who has completed the retirement transformation, decided to come back and compete in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

It's a pity that Zhan Xugang lost and shed tears at the scene. It is said that men don't flick when they have tears. Zhan Xugang's tears contain too many regrets and ambitions of the elderly in Lian Po.

Zhan Xugang retired completely and started his career as an athlete.

At the age of 365,438+0, Zhan Xugang bid farewell to his identity as an athlete and began to think about his life outside of training.

With regard to his family, career and future, Zhan Xugang, who was faced with the choice for the second half of his life, actually had a period of confusion, but fortunately, his girlfriend Jian Yao has been with him all the time, acting as a "senior consultant" in his life.

Soon, Zhan Xugang and Jian Yao formally established a love relationship.

Jian Yao accompanied Zhan Xugang from peak to trough and encouraged him to go to trough. Jian Yao admired the world weightlifting champion from the bottom of his heart, while Zhan Xugang was infinitely grateful to the beautiful stewardess for her companionship and encouragement at the low ebb.

Shortly after the relationship was confirmed, the two entered the marriage hall and moved towards a happy family life.

Zhan Xugang also has his own considerations about his career.

After retiring, Zhan Xugang has become a hot topic in various training grounds, and many people have thrown huge benefits at him and asked him to go to vocational education.

However, under the unified arrangement of the organization department of the provincial party Committee at that time, Zhan Xugang went down to the grassroots level and served as the standing Committee member and deputy magistrate of the county party Committee in Sanmen County, Taizhou, and worked as a grassroots cadre for two years.

In 2005, Zhan Xugang entered Zhejiang Institute of Physical Education and continued to be responsible for the management of weightlifting projects. Although he is familiar with weightlifting, the venue is not in the training ground.

Zhan Xugang, who said goodbye to the sports ground and walked into the office, was not used to it for a while, so he walked into the weightlifting training ground at the suggestion of his wife Jian Yao, watched the training of the players and listened to the ideas of the weightlifting coach.

This practice of not sticking to the office quickly made Zhan Xugang find the pleasure of working.

Different from other leaders, Zhan Xugang often walked into the playground to communicate with teammates and coaches, which made Zhan Xugang's achievements affirmed by his superiors.

In 2008, Zhan Xugang became a torchbearer, which is a great affirmation of Zhan Xugang's contribution. He successfully completed the task of torchbearer.

At the beginning of 20 12, 44-year-old Zhan xugang was promoted to vice president of Zhejiang institute of physical education, equivalent to vice president, in charge of training preparation of training department, finance department and competitive sports department, and concurrently served as director of seven competitive sports departments.

So Zhan Xugang not only went down to the weightlifting field, but also went down to other sports training grounds he was responsible for managing.

Zhan Xugang, who has practical experience and training experience, is familiar with his own field.

Zhan Xugang's career path is actually not smooth.

20 15, Zhan xugang once again served as deputy county magistrate. In the face of the position of deputy county magistrate of Olympic champion, many people have raised doubts. As a former athlete, Zhan Xugang's management ability has become the focus of everyone's doubts.

In fact, it is not only everyone's suspicion, but also Zhan Xugang's own psychology.

Zhan Xugang, who has been dealing with cold equipment, had to face the needs of entertainment, which once made Zhan Xugang feel very upset.

His wife, Jian Yao, bought a lot of judicial materials and asked Zhan Xugang to compile them from scratch. Facing the entertainment circle, Jian Yao suggested Zhan Xugang not to worry too much. Since he is not good at interpersonal communication and doesn't like it, he should be a doer.

With Zhan Xugang's ability, he will be recognized. His wife's words made Zhan Xugang enlightened and started his career as a deputy county magistrate.

In the cradle of sports talents, he continued to devote his blood to weightlifting, and now he has become a bole for many swift horses, identifying pieces of dusty rough jade.

Today, Zhan Xugang is still engaged in management positions, and he and his wife Jian Yao are as loving as ever, and have a son and a daughter.

Zhan xugang is busy at work. Jian Yao always supported Zhan Xugang's work, retired to his family, took care of his children, and let Zhan Xugang concentrate on his work without worrying too much about the growth of his family and children.

In the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the local athletes in Zhejiang Province, where Zhan Xugang worked, made very proud achievements.

In the weightlifting field, Shi Zhiyong won the championship in one fell swoop, which continued the victory of the men's weightlifting team in China and continued to write the myth of the men's weightlifting team in China.

On the 28th, at the Rio Olympic Games, Shi Zhiyong won the 69kg gold medal with impeccable perfection.

He became the fourth weightlifter in China to win two Olympic gold medals after Zhan Xugang, Chen Yanqing and Long Qingquan.

This achievement has set a world record for the total score of this level, which is also the first world record created by the China delegation at this Olympic Games.

At the scene where Shi Zhiyong won the championship, Zhan Xugang, who was sitting at the scene, said that he was extremely nervous because Zhan Xugang was really Shi Zhiyong's teacher.

That amazing teenager who lifted weights for four years has now become a coach who watched his disciples fight hard on the sidelines. Zhan Xugang never seems to leave the weightlifting field. He used to be there.

Zhan Xugang brought China not only the glory of the champion, but also an indomitable champion spirit. The continuation of this spirit has enabled Zhejiang sports to continuously emerge champion talents.

Such as Shi Zhiyong, Tang and Feng Ludong.

The continuous emergence of the afterwaves has made Zhan Xugang more determined about his career. He will continue to seek gold in this wave and devote his life to this weightlifting field like his old coach Zhu Yuner.

Zhan Xugang devoted his first 15 years of youth to weightlifting and won the glory of big and small competitions. After retiring, he occupied the hard work of the second half of his life for China's weightlifting career, trained a group of weightlifting talents from China, and completed the continuation of weightlifting in China.

He explained the meaning of love with persistence and persistence, and he wrote a legend with his life-long blood. His story is worth telling and his spirit is worth carrying forward! Pay tribute to this legendary genius!

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