(Tokyo Olympics) Olympic first gold winner Yang Qian Enlightenment coach: she deserves this gold medal
China News Service, Ningbo, July 24th, title: Olympic first gold winner Yang Qian Enlightenment coach: she deserves this gold medal
Author Li Dian
On the 24th, in the women's 10m air rifle final of the Tokyo Olympics, the "post-00" teenager Yang Qian from Ningbo, Zhejiang won the championship with a score of 251.8, and won the first gold medal of the Olympic Games to the Chinese delegation.
A reporter from China News Agency contacted Yu Lihua, Yang Qian's enlightenment coach, to explore the story behind the "first gold".
In the women's 10m air rifle finals of the Tokyo Olympics held on July 24, Chinese athlete Yang Qian won the championship and won the first gold medal for the Chinese delegation.
This is also the first gold medal born in this Tokyo Olympics.
The picture shows Yang Qian kissing the gold medal through a mask.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
Yu Lihua is a national-level shooting coach from Suichang, Zhejiang. He is currently the head coach of the Hailiang Education Shooting Team.
In 2010, he came to Maoshan Central Primary School in Yinzhou, Ningbo, Zhejiang.
Here, he met Yang Qian for the first time.
"This little girl has a pair of water-like eyes, and her eyes are very firm." When she first saw Yang Qian, Yu Lihua remembered these "eyes that are different from others."
With her excellent performance in a series of tests such as stability, in December of this year, Yang Qian was selected by Yu Lihua into the shooting team of Ningbo Sports School.
Shooting sports requires athletes to have strong psychological qualities, concentration and time perception.
Yu Lihua recalled that after joining the shooting team of Ningbo Sports School, Yang Qian's sports advantages appeared one by one. “She is a competitive player. She plays very steadily in big competitions and her personality is especially suitable for shooting this sport.”
As Yu Lihua said, the "like a fish in water" Yang Qian has won one medal after another in competitions of all sizes.
In 2014, at the Zhejiang Games, 14-year-old Yang Qian won three gold medals in one fell swoop and scored a world-class score of 399 in the shooting of women's air rifle 40 rounds.
In 2016, Yang Qian was specially recruited into the shooting team of Tsinghua University.
Two years later, he was admitted to the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University with good results.
In Yu Lihua's view, Yang Qian is highly perceptive, strong in execution, and able to withstand loneliness, and has great potential in the field of shooting.
"In colleges and universities, apart from training and competition, athletes can better improve their cultural level, so as to obtain all-round growth." Yu Lihua always thinks a long way about the future of "apprentice".
"To become a good shooting coach, the first step is to pick seedlings." Today, Yu Lihua's students have won 130 championships in various competitions in China, including Wang Chengyi, Kang Hongwei, Zhang Chaoxuan, and Yang Qian. Champion contestant.
Watching the live TV broadcast of the women’s 10-meter air rifle final of the Tokyo Olympics, Yu Lihua wept in excitement after seeing Yang Qian win the championship, “All efforts have paid off. She deserves this gold medal.”
Yu Lihua bluntly said that he is a person who can control his emotions, but at the moment of winning the championship, he still couldn't help it.
"I know that Yang Qian is under a lot of pressure, and she paid a lot for this competition. For myself, Yang Qian is the first Olympic gold medalist among my more than 100 students, and it is of great significance."
Today, Yu Lihua bears more responsibilities.
He told reporters that as a member of the Ningbo CPPCC Standing Committee, he is committed to promoting the integration of education and sports, hoping to use this as a cut to explore a new path for Chinese competitive sports to learn from.
Yu Lihua said that this will be what he will do for a long time in the future.
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