Yang Xia
Yang Xia
Yang Xia, female, Tujia nationality, was born on January 8, 1977 in Qianling Town, Baojing County, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province. She is a Chinese weightlifter, world champion, Olympic champion and China's first woman weightlifter in the Olympic Games.
On September 18, 2000, at the 27th Sydney Olympic Games, she won the women's 53kg weightlifting championship with absolute strength.
Early experience
Born on January 8, 1977 in Qianling Town, Baojing County, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, she is a typical Tujia girl. Since the second grade of primary school, she has been practicing track and field under the guidance of her brother-in-law, a physical education teacher. Seeing her potential, her brother-in-law recommended her to coach Li Xiaoping of the Autonomous Prefecture sports school. When she was 13 years old, she began to receive special training and began to lift weights. She has good physical quality, stubborn self-esteem, lively and outgoing, hard training, strong acceptance ability, therefore, weight lifting performance is improving day by day.
Yang Xia's barbell training thousands of times a day, the palm of the skin along the lines are cracked, revealing the bright red meat, all this will not beat the little Yang Xia who wants to make a difference in the weightlifting field, so she attaches great importance to the training results. Once, because her grades continued to decline, she was so angry that she ran home without saying hello to the coach and said that she "would rather farm at home". Finally, she came back to the team after her father's persuasion.
In 1988, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture amateur sports school opened women's weightlifting class, she was the first team member of women's weightlifting class in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture sports school.
Sports career
She was selected into Hunan Women's weightlifting team in November 1989, and her life has been closely linked with heavy barbells ever since.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, women's weightlifting became an official event of the Olympic Games for the first time. On the evening of September 12, 2000, at the weightlifting training ground of Regents Park in Sydney, Yang Xia, with her face full of sincerity and desire, said that she always had a dream in her heart - a dream of "Grand Slam": integrating the champions of the National Games, the Asian Games, the World Championships and the Olympic Games. Only in this way can she do weightlifting in vain. Yang Xia won the gold medal in the 53kg class and became the first Olympic champion in China's women's weightlifting.
In the winter of 2003, she officially retired.
Award winning record
She won the women's weightlifting championship in the 7th National Games in 1993;
In September 1995, in the National Women's weightlifting Championship held in Yichun, Jiangxi Province, she won the 59kg class championship.
In the 1996 National Women's weightlifting championship, she won the fifth place in the 59kg class;
In April 1997, she won the gold medal in the kilogram clean and jerk at the National Women's weightlifting championship and the preliminaries of the 8th National Games in Jinan. In October, at the Eighth National Games held in Shanghai, she won the gold medal in the kilogram class with 232.5kg. This year, she also won two gold medals in the snatch and total results in the kilogram class, silver in the clean and jerk, and three world records in four times at the 10th Asian women's Weightlifting Championships.
In December 1998, at the 13th Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand, he won the gold medal in the 53kg class and broke two Asian records (exceeding the world record) three times, realizing the breakthrough of zero gold medal in Hunan Women's weightlifting Asian Games.
In October 1999, she won three gold medals in the 53kg snatch, clean and jerk and total results in the National Women's weightlifting championship.
In September 2000, at the world-famous Sydney Olympic Games, Yang Xia, who took part in the Olympic Games for the first time, walked calmly to the final with confidence and calm heart, won the 53kg gold medal with absolute advantage, broke three world records, and became the first Chinese women's weightlifting Olympic champion.
She won the 53kg women's weightlifting championship in the 9th National Games in 2001;
Hunan Provincial People's Government awarded her provincial advanced workers, and has recorded the first-class meritorious service twice. The provincial and all China Women's Federation successively awarded her provincial and national "March 8" red flag bearer, Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League awarded her "Long March Raider", the Provincial Federation of trade unions awarded her "provincial excellent workers", and the all China Federation of trade unions awarded her national "May 1 Labor Medal" and other honorary titles. In 2000, the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Hunan Youth Federation awarded her the "Hunan Youth five four outstanding contribution Medal" and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League awarded her the "Chinese youth five four outstanding contribution Medal".
Personal life
At the beginning of 1997, in order to reduce her weight to 54 kg, Yang Xia endured the torment of poor indoor air circulation, high temperature and dyspnea. She took many steam baths. After suffering, her weight finally dropped to below 54 kg.
From 2002 to 2006, Yang Xia studied in Hunan Normal University for four years.
After graduating from university in 2006, he served as secretary of Hunan weightlifting management center.
participate in activities
On October 18, 2003, the Fifth City Games of the people's Republic of China opened in Helong Stadium of Changsha City, Hunan Province. As one of the Olympic champions of Hunan nationality, Yang Xia became the image ambassador and participated in the torch lighting ceremony.
Social evaluation
Yang Xia has good psychological quality and strong self-regulation ability. In terms of opponent strength, Li Fengying is very close to her level. In the four women's events competition participated by the Chinese team, her opponent strength is relatively strong. Although Yang Xia felt the pressure, she didn't bear the burden. Since she arrived in Sydney, she has been in good condition. (Sha Feng, Yang Xia's coach)
Yang Xia often talks and laughs in the room, and even finds someone to play Gobang. She can't see any pressure at all. (Yang Xia's roommate and Chinese weightlifting team translator, Lun Shufen)
Yang Xia is a competitive player and is easy to make achievements in the competition. Her performance has always been very calm. Although she is not feeling well today, she still holds up the world record of 125kg, and her fighting spirit is really good. (Zhang Wenxi, head coach of China Women's weightlifting team)
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