Zhang Shan is the first female athlete to defeat a male opponent in a mixed event at the Olympic Games. Do you know Zhang Shan’s story?

After the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Zhang Shan became a famous name. At this Olympic Games, Zhang Shan represented the Chinese shooting team and defeated the "sharp shooters" all over the world in the mixed men's and women's two-way flying saucer competition. He not only won the Olympic gold medal that attracted worldwide attention, but also created the "women beat men" "The miracle. In the qualifying round, she fired 200 bullets without missing the target, turning the ancient legend of "always hitting the target" into reality. She became the first Oriental woman to stand on the podium in this competition that has been monopolized by European and American players for many years.

Zhang Shan’s hometown is Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. When he was born in 1968, his father Zhang Zhiyi was already 40 years old, and his mother Hu Guohui was also 38 years old. However, her parents did not dote on the youngest daughter in the family. When Zhang Shan was 6 years old, they sent her to an amateur sports school to let her go through hardships, see the world, and exercise her body.

i‘At Nanchong City Amateur Sports School, Zhang Shan learned to play basketball. Later he became the captain of the women's basketball team. She is not very tall, but she has a sharp mind, good skills, and strong organizational skills. During every game, as long as Zhang Shan is on the court, this small basketball team will play vigorously, orderly, and often beat the drum to win. However, Hu Zhongmei, the coach of the sports school, did not relax his demands on Zhang Shan because she was his favorite student. Like other young players, she was punished by running and criticized when she did not train seriously. Zhang Shan is a versatile person. She is not only talented in sports, but also good at singing and dancing. When she was in elementary school, little Zhang Shan was always required to perform on stage at celebrations in her hometown of Nanchong City. In terms of study, she is also a "top student" in the school. When she graduated from high school, the school principal, teachers, classmates, and her parents all believed that she could be admitted to a national key university, but fate sent her on the road to becoming an Olympic champion...

It was the early summer of 1984. Jiang Zexiang, the flying saucer coach of the Sichuan Provincial Shooting Team, came to Nanchong to select team members in preparation for the first National Youth Games. Zhang Shan’s excellent physical fitness and fierce personality attracted Coach Jiang’s attention at a glance. middle. Sure enough, during the trial training, among the 10 team members, Zhang Shan understood the coach's teachings the fastest, and he was also the first to dare to raise his gun and shoot live ammunition, and he hit two out of three shots, which greatly surprised Jiang Zexiang. As a result, Zhang Shan was left to continue training. In less than a year, she won the runner-up at the National Youth Games with a score of 181 out of 200 bullets, only one less than the first place. As a fledgling, her sharp edge showed off her shooting talent.

Zhang Shan is also a very diligent athlete. She is not only diligent in training, but also diligent in thinking. She always carefully appreciates the coach's guidance and often carefully observes the movements of excellent shooters to hone her own skills. As a result, her performance and technical level improved rapidly. At the beginning of 1989, Zhang Shan was selected into the national shooting training team and became the favorite disciple of Liu Jisheng, the famous Chinese flying saucer coach. In April of this year, she ranked on the gold list with 195 in the National Shooting Championship; in September, she participated in the World UFO Shooting Championships with Chinese famous players Wu Lanying and Shao Weiping, and jointly achieved the 6th consecutive World Women's UFO Team for the Chinese women's team. crown, she also ascended to the throne of the individual champion of the World Women's Skeet Shooting Championship.

The 1992 Olympic Games, which attracted worldwide attention, is coming soon. In order to prepare for the Barcelona Olympics, Zhang Shan and his teammates stepped up training. In April, Zhang Shan boldly proposed new action ideas during training based on coach Liu Jisheng's leading idea of ??"human and gun integration". After testing and experience, her technical movements have made a new leap. Now, when she raised her gun to shoot at the fast-flying target, she felt that she and her gun had become one. The gun seemed to be an extension of her arm and her eyes. She even believed that no matter what the target was, Whichever direction the target flies out from and which direction it flies towards, as long as she can see it with Zhang Shan's eyes, her bullets will pursue it relentlessly, and the target will be doomed. At the same time, she listened carefully to the psychology class taught by Liu Shuhui, a professor at Beijing Sports Normal University. As the competition approached, her psychology was adjusted to the best state. She wrote in her diary: "Dare to win and believe that I have the ability to realize my wishes." ”

From August 25th to 27th, Zhang Shan performed her superb stunts to the world in the Olympic UFO two-way competition. She hit 75 targets on the first day and the opening was a success.

The next day, she hit 75 targets again, and again without missing a beat. On the last day, she hit 200 targets in the qualifying round, pushing the record of the Olympic Games to an unbreakable peak. Then, In the 25-target final, she defeated the male "super shooters" from Europe and the United States, becoming the "Queen" in this competitive sport that has always been monopolized by male players.