Liu Xiang entered Shanghai Institute of Physical Education from 65438 to 0996, and studied under Sun Haiping. Liu Xiang, with good figure, strong explosive force and absolute speed, is a rare male hurdler in recent years.
In 2002, the international men's column 1 12 ranked fourth with 13 seconds. On July 10, 2006, 1 1 broke the world record of 13 in the men's10 meter hurdles final of the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Lausanne. However, this record was broken in June 2008 by Robles of Cuba in 12.87 seconds.
On August 3rd, 20071,Liu Xiang won the world track and field championship in Osaka with a score of 12.95 seconds, thus achieving a grand slam (Olympic champion, world champion and former world record holder).
On March 9th, 2008, in the final of 12 World Indoor Athletics Championships held in Valencia, Spain, Liu Xiang won the championship in 7.46 seconds. This is Liu Xiang's first individual indoor world championship champion, and also the first men's gold medal in the history of China indoor track and field world championships.
Allen johnson, an American athlete, had previously participated in the hurdles finals of the IAAF World Championships and IAAF World Indoor Championships (twice), but Liu Xiang won the championship three times.
Brilliant Athens Olympic Games
On August 27th, 2004, in the men's 1 10 meter hurdles final of Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang showed his skills perfectly, and crossed the finish line by nearly three meters, and finally won the gold medal with 12.95438+0 seconds, breaking the Olympic record and tying colin jackson10.
The moment Athens won the championship
After the game, Yuan Weimin, head of the China sports delegation, commented that this gold medal was the "most valuable" one won by the China delegation at the Athens Olympic Games, and Liu Xiang became the flag bearer of China at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.
At the Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang was the only yellow-skinned male athlete who could beat American and European athletes in track and field.
After the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang's achievements brought him a lot of glory. In 2005, Liu Xiang became the standard-bearer of Shanghai Team in the National Games and China Team in the East Asian Games. In 2006, at the awarding ceremony of "CCTV Sports Person of the Year" hosted by China CCTV, Liu Xiang won the Best Athlete of the Year Award, and became a star athlete in China people's mind, which is equal to Yao Ming.
Withdraw from the Beijing Olympic Games
On August 8th, 2008, the men's 1 10 meter hurdles were held in the first round, and Liu Xiang, who was placed in the second lane of the sixth group, was highly anticipated by the home audience. However, due to the recurrence of injury, Liu Xiang withdrew from the competition on the spot, missed the championship and failed to defend his title.
Liu Xiang has been plagued by injuries before the game, and the situation has been repeated. After entering the Olympic Village, Liu Xiang accepted the consultation and treatment of medical experts from the China delegation, and gave up the originally planned training activities for rest and treatment. Liu Xiang once said, "I wouldn't make a decision to quit if I didn't have to."
The first round of men's 1 10 meter hurdles in Beijing Olympic Games was held on the morning of August 18, which was the only event of Liu Xiang in Beijing Olympic Games. He was assigned to the second runway of the sixth group. Because the other six players in the same group are relatively weak, coach Sun Haiping predicted before the game that Liu Xiang would only need to run 13.50 seconds to advance. However, due to an injury to his right achilles tendon (a big tendon between the heel and calf), he had no choice but to withdraw from the competition. His foot has been injured for seven years. This is an old wound. After Liu Xiang entered the Olympic Village on August 16, he went to the hospital for expert consultation and had an MRI, and found that there was inflammation in the heel of his right foot.
After retiring, Liu Xiang hid his face and wept. Liu Xiang's sworn enemy Robles said in an interview: "I don't want to see his injury so serious. If I see Liu Xiang, I will hug him tightly. " Some economists pointed out from an economic point of view that Liu Xiang's failure will reduce his personal advertising income by one billion yuan (calculated in a lifetime).
Liu Xiang said in an interview with CCTV: "I won't give up easily. This is my character. I know I have strength. I just hope my feet are good, because I feel good in all aspects now, but this foot is not good, so don't say anything. I think I will be better one day. I think too many people are worried about me, so many people care about me and support me. I feel sorry because I really can't help it. When I do warm-up activities, I feel my feet are failing. But today, I don't know how it happened, and I don't want to. I really can't stand it. If I survive, maybe my achilles tendon ... will not survive! I also want to top it down, so it was really indescribable at the time. "
Withdraw from the Beijing Olympic Games
Hurt pain
Coach Sun Haiping said that Liu Xiang was injured in two places, one in the thigh and the other in the heel. The thigh was injured in 2008 and recovered after treatment. Another problem is the heel, which is an old problem. I was injured before the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and the situation has been repeated. He will feel pain after every intensive training. The results of MRI showed that his injury was actually attached to the calcaneus and distal achilles tendon. Liu Xiang's two heel bones are more prominent than the average person, which are easy to wear and form bubbles. After being punctured, they will form a hard cocoon.
At the end of 2005, Liu Xiang accidentally sprained his foot. After several months' rest, it broke the world record in July 2006, with a good result of 12.88 seconds. In May 2008, Liu Xiang injured his hamstring again. However, the injury was not serious, but for safety reasons, coach Sun Haiping decided to withdraw Liu Xiang from the 2008 new york Grand Prix. A few days later, at the Eugene Grand Prix, Liu Xiang was sent off for stealing the ball, and has never participated in any official competition since.
Liu Xiang returned to Beijing for proper treatment. After two months' rest, Liu Xiang is getting better and better. However, on August 6, 2008, Liu Xiang's injury reappeared. Every time Liu Xiang trains hard, he has a strong ache. At the Beijing Olympic Games, Liu Xiang made her debut again and withdrew due to injury.
Perfect regression
On the evening of September 20th, 2009, in the men's 1 10 hurdles competition of the 2009 Shanghai International Track and Field Golden Grand Prix, Liu Xiang, a flying man from China, who had just recovered from injury, and trammell, an American, crossed the line at the same time, with a score of 13 seconds 15. Subsequently, the organizing committee confirmed that trammell was the first to hit the line in the effective part in slow motion, and was lucky to win the championship, while Liu Xiang was unfortunately the runner-up.
Since he retired from the Liu Xiang Olympic Games on August 18, 2008, he spent 400 unsettled days in 13 months. In the latest team test, Liu Xiang ran 13.70 seconds. Because this Shanghai track and field competition is Liu Xiang's first official competition in more than a year, it is far more important to find a competition than to run the championship. Before the game, coach Sun Haiping set a target score of 13.50 seconds for Liu Xiang.
Although battle-hardened, Liu Xiang's starting response was very good, with a response time of 0. 159 seconds, ranking fourth temporarily. Interestingly, trammell, an American, has the same reaction time as Liu Xiang.
politics
On June 26th, 2008, Liu Xiang was elected as a member of the 11th China People's Political Consultative Conference. According to incomplete statistics, Liu Xiang, who is only 25 years old, should be the youngest CPPCC member. Liu Xiang's election also caused some controversy. Due to the busy training and competition, Liu Xiang missed the two sessions in 2008, and public opinion questioned Liu Xiang's decision to become a member of CPPCC. In March, 2009, Liu Xiang attended the two sessions for the first time, but mainly studied without any proposal.
Personal career in adolescence
★ 1990 when Liu Xiang was seven years old, he was selected by Zhong Suogui, the coach of the school's track and field team, and got in touch with track and field. Since then, he has become attached to sports.
★ 1993, at the end of the fourth grade, Liu Xiang was selected by Mr. Gu Baogang to be a junior sports school in Putuo District, Shanghai, mainly practicing high jump and assisting 100 meter sprint, and started his professional sports career.
★ 1995, an opportunity to run 100 meters in the city was spotted by Fang Shuiquan, coach of the second-line track and field team of Shanghai Sports Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as the second book), and then he began to practice hurdles.
★ 1996 won the second group championship of Shanghai Youth Track and Field Championships. This is the first hurdle champion in Liu Xiang's memory.
★ 1997, transferred to Putuo District Key Middle School and Yichuan Middle School, a traditional track and field school in Shanghai, and practiced while learning.
★ 65438+1At the beginning of August, 1998, a national youth track and field competition was held in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Liu Xiang was suspended with injury and won the second place in the national all-around competition.
★1March, 999, with Sun Haiping's all-out efforts, Liu Xiang returned to the second day of junior high school to practice hurdles and entered the first team. From then on, Liu Xiang became attached to his master Sun Haiping and finally created the myth of12second 9 1.
grow up
★ In May, 20065438+0, Liu Xiang won the first place with a score of 13.32 seconds in the national track and field championship and series grand prix held in Shanghai. In this "competition for hegemony" between old and new hurdles, Liu Xiang defeated Chen, the first hurdler in his mind. It was also from this time that Liu Xiang completed a real psychological transcendence.
★ 2001On May 28th, Liu Xiang won the first world champion title-Universiade 1 10 hurdles champion.
★ In July 2002, at the Swiss IAAF Grand Prix, Liu Xiang ran 13 seconds 12, breaking the world youth record of 13.23 seconds.
★ On May 8th, 2004, Liu Xiang beat Johnson with 13.06 at the IAAF Grand Prix in Osaka, Japan. The first time I defeated Johnson face to face, I also defeated Liu Xiang's idol, the second opponent.
★ On July 2nd, 2004, Liu Xiang won the IAAF Grand Prix in Rome with a score of13s 1 1, one thousandth of a second faster than Allen Johnson. The experience of defeating Allen Johnson twice injected infinite confidence into Liu Xiang's decisive battle against Athens.
★ On August 27th, 2004, in the men's 1 10 hurdles final of Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang won the gold medal with 12 seconds, which tied the record of British athlete colin jackson and created the miracle and myth of China people in short track events!
★ On August 12, 2005, Liu Xiang won the runner-up in the 10th World Athletics Championships with 13.08 seconds, which created the best performance of China male athletes in the history of the World Championships.
★ On July 2, 2006, Liu Xiang won the gold medal in the track and field Super Grand Prix with a score of 12.88 in Lausanne, Switzerland, breaking the world record of 12.9 1 set by British great colin jackson after sleeping for 13 years.