Since then, Chen Jingkai has broken the world record nine times and won the medal of honor for sports awarded by the State Sports Commission five times.
On May 6th, the IOC Executive Board decided to award Chen Jingkai the silver medal.
Chen Jingkai's brilliant record has attracted worldwide attention, but few people know how he was discovered.
That's at the end of 1954. At that time, Li Qilong, the weightlifting coach of the Central South Military Region Sports Team, was looking for weightlifters, and a friend recommended Chen Jingkai to him.
At that time, Chen Jingkai left his hometown of Shilong Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, and built a gym in Guangzhou to do odd jobs. In his spare time, he also practices fitness and plays with stones.
As it happens, Tan Wenbiao, who runs this gym, is an acquaintance of Li Qilong.
Li Qilong took the opportunity of finding Tan Wenbiao to meet Chen Jingkai in the gym.
/kloc-Chen Jingkai, 0/9 years old, is only 1.49 meters tall, with thick legs and muscular body. The only fly in the ointment is that his ankle is turned inside out.
At that time, the food supply was tight, and Chen Jingkai ate too much and often did not have enough to eat.
Tan Wenbiao hoped that Li Qilong would accept Chen Jingkai and find him a bowl of rice.
So, Chen Jingkai rode a scooter and followed Li Qilong with his luggage to the sports team of the Central South Military Region.
After short-term training, Chen Jingkai participated in the national weightlifting test 1955 held in March.
Because he is short and has no clothes suitable for him, he has to pin his weightlifting suit on the court. This time, he only lifted 95 kilograms and didn't even get the ranking.
Nevertheless, Li Qilong still thinks that Chen Jingkai has a bright future and recommends him to join the national weightlifting training team.
In the national training team, Chen Jingkai trained very hard and got the guidance of the former Soviet weightlifting coach, and his performance rose rapidly.
Finally, he became the first athlete in China to break the world record.