China News Service, July 31. On July 31, Beijing time, at the Tokyo Olympic Games Women's Windsurfing RS: X Medal Competition, Chinese athlete Lu Yunxiu performed well and won the gold medal in the event.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Yin Jian won the event, and achieved the "zero" breakthrough in the Olympic gold medal of sailing for the Chinese delegation.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the windsurfing RS:X class will be replaced by hydrofoil windsurfing, so today's windsurfing RS:X class competition is its swan song in the Olympics.
On September 6, 1996, Lu Yunxiu was born in Fanyang Village, Duxun Town, Zhangpu, Fujian Province.
I showed my talent in sports when I was in elementary school, but I started to practice track and field events.
When she was 13 years old, she entered the Zhangpu Major Sports School. To everyone's surprise, she thought she would continue track and field events, but in the end she was sent to the Fujian Provincial Sailing and Windsurfing Management Center to practice sailing. .
At this point, Lu Yunxiu began to really get into the sport of windsurfing in July 2008.
Lu Yunxiu entered the Chinese National Windsurfing Team in November 2013.
On September 3, 2017, Lu Yunxiu won a silver medal in the windsurfing RS:X Olympic route competition of the 13th National Games.
Lu Yunxiu ushered in an outbreak and won two World Cup championships and the windsurfing World Championships.
In 2021, Lu Yunxiu was selected as the list of sailing athletes of the Chinese Sports Delegation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
In the preliminaries, Lu Yunxiu's results were not satisfactory on the first day of the competition, but according to the rules, the worst round of the ranking can be removed; in the next three days of the competition, she ranked in the top four in all rounds, and the overall ranking gradually increased. Ranked to third on the second day, ranked second on the third day, and ranked first at the end of the final preliminaries.