Cai Yalin

Cai Yalin

Cai Yalin, male, born on September 3, 1977 in Chengde City, Hebei Province, is a Chinese shooter, Olympic champion and coach of Hebei shooting team.

At the end of 1994, Cai Yalin entered the Hebei provincial team and the national team at the end of 1997. He won the men's 10m air rifle championship in Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. In 2002, he cooperated with his teammates in Busan Asian Games and won two team gold medals in 10 meter air rifle and 50 meter optional rifle, breaking a world record and an Asian record.

Early experience

Cai Yalin was a school sports "Star" since he was a child. He likes skating, volleyball, playing and playing. He likes to dance guns and sticks. During the winter vacation in 1991, Cai Yalin, a junior high school freshman, was recommended by the director of the gymnasium. His parents sent him to the shooting team of Chengde sports school. As soon as Cai Yalin entered the shooting team, he saw the small players holding their breath, the hard leather clothes of the air rifle players, and elbow and knee protectors. They were as complicated as special forces. He fell in love with them all of a sudden. In the next month, his training was mainly gun raising and running. After a winter vacation, more than ten bullets were fired.

Sports career

In 1991, Cai Yalin entered Chengde amateur sports school and began to practice shooting; at the end of 1994, he entered Hebei provincial team under the guidance of Ning Lijia's coach Chang Jingchun; at the end of 1997, he was selected into the national team; in 1998, he participated in the Asian Games in Bangkok and won the individual champion and team runner up of the 10m air rifle; in 2000, he won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle event of Sydney Olympic Games, breaking the gold medal with 696.4 rings In 2001, in the National Games, Cai Yalin was first squeezed out of the top three in the men's air rifle competition. Two days later, the men's 50m small caliber optional rifle ranked 20th in the qualification competition of 3 × 40 event. In 2002, at the Busan Asian Games, in the men's 10 meter air rifle shooting competition, the Chinese team composed of Li Jie, Zhang Fu and Cai Yalin won the gold medal of 1788 rings and broke the world record of 1785 rings set by the Russian team; in the men's 50 meter optional rifle team competition, Cai Yalin and his teammates Yao Ye and Qiu Jian won the record of 3472 rings in the Asian Games He won the gold medal of men's 50m rifle team. retired in 2004.

Award winning record

Career data

Personal life

Cai Yalin's father teaches history in a local vocational high school, and his mother is a math teacher in a primary school. When his mother just retired, she also ran a tutorial class for students. Later, she got cerebral thrombosis and couldn't move freely. On the night of the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, because Cai Yalin had a competition the next day, the leaders of the team didn't let him participate in the opening ceremony and wanted him to have a rest early. And he sneaked out of the room with a group of "foreigners" on the hill of the Olympic Village, using gestures as the main way of communication and international friends to dig out the "heart nest". They lazily enjoy the fireworks all over the sky and take pictures of each other. He felt that this was the friendship advocated by the Olympics. when he won the gold medal of men's 10m air rifle in Sydney Olympic Games, the media reported that he was a "black horse". Cai Yalin said that "black horse" does not refer to myself, but the men's air rifle event. In CAI Yalin's memory, the heaviest gold medal was not this one, but the gold medal of men's 10m air rifle in Bangkok Asian Games. Because the last shot hit 10.8 rings, all of a sudden, the bronze medal became the gold medal. On October 9, 2002, Cai Yalin returned from the Busan Asian Games with a gold medal. When he got off the plane, he got the bad news that his mother had died a month ago. Cai Yalin cried all the way back to Chengde. After the funeral, Cai Yalin looked at so many gold medals and shed tears again. Crying, he grabbed those gold medals and threw them out of the window. after Cai Yalin retired, he founded Cai Yalin shooting club in Hebei Province, which is the first shooting club in Hebei Province. He put forward the shooting culture connotation with "shooting to observe morality" as the core, hoping that shooting will become a part of people's leisure sports as soon as possible.

social activities

As an outstanding representative of China's shooting sports, Cai Yalin participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay. On July 29, 2008, with CAI Yalin, the shooting champion of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the last torchbearer, lighting the cauldron at the Hebei Provincial stadium, the Beijing Olympic torch relay in Shijiazhuang was successfully completed. In 2008, Cai Yalin became deputy director of Hebei shooting management center. on June 21, 2016, Olympic champion Cai Yalin was the first to send his best wishes to "Chinese athletes win gold in Rio Olympics".

Social evaluation

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