Fu Mingxia

Fu Mingxia

Fu Mingxia, born in Wuhan, Hubei Province on August 16, 1978, is a former Chinese diver, world champion and Olympic champion.

In 1987, Fu Mingxia entered the diving team of Hubei Province. In 1990, Fu Mingxia was selected into the Chinese diving team. In July 1992, 14-year-old Fu Mingxia won the women's 10m platform gold medal in Barcelona Olympic Games, becoming the youngest champion in Olympic history. In July 1996, at the Atlanta Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia won the women's 10m platform and women's 3m springboard at the same time. She became the first double champion in the history of Chinese Olympic diving. In September 2000, at the Sydney Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia defended her gold medal in the women's single 3m springboard. After the Sydney Olympics, Fu Mingxia officially retired.

Early experience

Fu Mingxia was not in good health when she was a child because her family was poor. In order to exercise her body, her father Fu Yijun sent her to gymnastics with her sister. Sister Fu Mingyan was admitted to Wuhan amateur sports school, but the naughty Fu Mingxia was not accepted by the coach. It was not until the first grade of primary school that Fu Mingxia was selected into the gymnastics team of amateur sports school. However, Fu Mingxia's joint hard, flexibility is not good, it is difficult to develop. In the summer of 1985, Jin Jing returned from the national team to Hubei Province, where she worked as a coach in the amateur sports school. Jin Jing recommended Fu Mingxia to Hu Demi, the diving coach of Hunan Province, and Fu Mingxia entered the diving industry. However, Fu Mingxia in Hubei diving team is not optimistic about the coach. When she began to practice diving, she couldn't swim. Hu Demi asked her parents Fu Yijun to tie a rope around her daughter's waist and throw it into the pool. Finally, she learned to swim. In order to make the diving more perfect, every night Fu Mingxia has to sit on a small bench, and then put her feet flat on another small bench. Her parents sit on her knees in turn. The weight of an adult of 50 or 60 kg is just a few minutes. Fu Mingxia cries loudly. Under the high pressure of training, Fu Mingxia gradually understands the hard work of her parents and coaches, consciously practices basic skills and grows rapidly Get up.

Fu Mingxia and Xiao Hailiang are the same group of players in Hu Demi's hands. They entered the diving team of Hubei Province and the national team together. At the age of 9, Fu Mingxia was discovered by diving coach Yu Fen. She left Hubei diving team and came to Beijing for training. At the age of 12, Fu Mingxia joined the national team with coach Yu Fen. In that year, she went to a series of International Invitational competitions, among which she won the 10 meter platform jump champion in the 1990 Seattle World Friendship games. At the beginning of January 1989, Fu Mingxia joined the national team with his teammate Xiao Hailiang and coach Yu Fen.

Sports career

In 1987, Fu Mingxia was selected into the diving team of Hubei Province.

In 1989, in the diving competition of the 2nd National Youth Games, Fu Mingxia won the fifth place in the women's 10m platform.

In 1990, Fu Mingxia won the 10 meter platform champion of group B in the National Junior Competition. Later, Fu Mingxia was selected into China's national diving training team.

In April 1990, at the friendly games held in Seattle, the United States, Fu Mingxia, 13 years old, won the gold medal of women's 10m platform with 443.04 points, becoming the youngest diving world champion. In September, Fu Mingxia won the third place in the women's platform diving competition of the 11th Asian Games in Beijing. In the same year, Fu Mingxia won the champion of platform diving in the international diving Invitational Competition held in the United States, and the runner up of Canada, the champion of the United States and the third runner up of China in the international diving open.

In January 1991, at the 6th World Swimming Championships held in Australia, Fu Mingxia won the gold medal of women's 10m platform optional action with a score of 426.50. In the same year, Fu Mingxia won the National City Games diving and National Diving Championships.

On July 27, 1992, in the diving competition of the 25th Olympic Games, 14-year-old Fu Mingxia won the gold medal of women's 10m platform with 461.43 points, becoming the youngest champion in the history of the Olympic Games.

In 1993, Fu Mingxia participated in the 8th Diving World Cup and won the third place in platform diving, women's team champion and mixed team champion. In September of the same year, at the Seventh National Games, Fu Mingxia won the second place in the women's single 3m springboard and women's 10m platform.

In September 1994, at the 7th World Swimming Championships held in Rome, Fu Mingxia won the gold medal of women's 10m platform diving with 434.04 points. In October of the same year, Fu Mingxia participated in the 12th Asian Games held in Hiroshima and won the silver medal in women's single 3M jump.

In 1995, in the 9th Diving World Cup, Fu Mingxia won the women's single 3m springboard championship.

On July 28, 1996, in the final of the women's 10m platform jump at the Atlanta Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia defended the title of the event by leading the second German athlete Annie by 42 points. On July 31, Fu Mingxia won the gold medal in women's 3m springboard with a 22 point advantage over Russia's Lashko, becoming the first double champion in Chinese Olympic diving history.

In 1997, after the National Games, Fu Mingxia retired.

In July 1998, Fu Mingxia resumed training in Tsinghua Diving team and announced her comeback.

In March 1999, Fu Mingxia competed with many children in Nanning diving class B competition, and finally won the most peculiar championship in her career with nearly 200 points higher than the children. In April, the national diving championship and Olympic trials were held in Jinan, and Fu Mingxia only won the third place. Later, Fu Mingxia won the women's 3m springboard championship at the China International Diving open held in Wenzhou. On July 7, Fu Mingxia won the women's 10m platform jump at the Universiade with 522.39 points. On July 10, in the diving competition of the 20th Universiade, Fu Mingxia won the women's 3m springboard championship.

On January 30, 2000, in the women's 3m springboard final of Sydney Diving World Cup, Fu Mingxia lost to Guo Jingjing with 566.25 points and won the second place. In March, Fu Mingxia returned to the national training team. On September 23, Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing won the second place in the diving competition of the Sydney Olympic Games. On September 28, Fu Mingxia defeated Guo Jingjing to win the championship with 609.42 points in the final of women's single 3m springboard at the Sydney Olympic Games.

After the Ninth National Games in 2001, Fu Mingxia officially retired.

Olympic experience

Take part in the Olympic Games for the first time

On July 27, 1992, the diving competition of Barcelona Olympic Games started. The first event is the women's ten meter platform. They are world famous, including miroshina of Russia, Clark and Wendy of the United States. They didn't care much about Fu Mingxia, a Chinese girl with a single braid in her back. In fact, 14-year-old Fu Mingxia did not think how powerful they were. She did every action by herself and didn't listen to others' scores. As a result, she finished the day's preliminary competition by 30 points ahead of the second place.

The youngest world champion

Fu Mingxia thought that the day when "famous generals are gods" ended a year ago. On the new year's day of 1991, Fu Mingxia played with the gods at the Perth World Swimming Championships. Clark, who is nearly 30 years old, was extremely angry at Fu Mingxia's appearance. She strongly protested to the Organizing Committee and fina: "how can you let a child come here and let her compete with us? It's either a contempt for us or a physical and mental destruction to children. This is the world's highest level competition. How can children bear the cruel physical and mental pressure? China's Fu should stay in primary school, enjoy the protection of her parents and teachers, and let her go back quickly, or her coaches will have to carry her back. " When Fu Mingxia heard about this, she didn't know much about Clark's anger. She just thought it was fun. Because she doesn't feel any pressure at all, the competition is much easier than the training. In the preliminaries, Clark was stunned by Fu Mingxia's easy flying on the 10 meter platform like a swallow. She cried out, "Oh, she's a genius and an elf!" Fu Mingxia, who participated in the world series for the first time, lost more than 20 points to her teammate Xu Yanmei in the preliminaries and ranked second. She is not worried at all. In her eyes, those big sisters are "gods". It's a matter of course to win her points. In the final, Fu Mingxia couldn't figure out how to get rid of all her opponents and her elder sister Xu Yanmei. She was ahead of the second place miroshina by more than 20 points and won the gold medal! Seoul Olympic champion Xu Yanmei only won the fourth place. 14-year-old Fu Mingxia understood overnight that "children can win over adults". She became the youngest world champion in the world and was recorded in the Guinness Book of records.

Atlanta Olympics

On July 28, 1996, before the Atlanta Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia suffered from a bad cold, low fever, and wheat swelling in her eyes. In the final of the 10 meter platform, Guo Jingjing, a team mate, gave an abnormal performance, which added great pressure to her. At the critical moment, Fu Mingxia is calm and self-confident, and inspires her tenacious belief and indomitable courage to serve the motherland. Five optional moves, she did it all at once. In particular, the last three and a half weeks of internal somersault, can be described as super level play, very beautiful and smooth movement won applause. Ann took the lead with Germany

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