Her amazing jump monopolized the world platform for seven years, and she created a miracle of winning the championship. She was dubbed "diving queen". As we all know, China's super diving "Dream Team" is a "myth", and she is the opening protagonist of this "fairy tale".
Now she is over 50 years old, but her brilliant moment will always be recorded in people's hearts. In this issue, Ziya Tongqu Sports Observer will take you into the world of Gao Min, the "diving queen".
From 65438 to 0970, Gao Min was born in an intellectual family in Zigong, Sichuan. Both parents graduated from high flyers University of Finance and Economics. At that time, her parents should be regarded as people with background, so compared with ordinary families, Gao Min's life is still relatively rich.
Since Gao Min was born, it can be said that she has been loved by thousands of people and is the "apple of her eye" at home. Gao Min's father's family is three brothers, and there is almost no daughter's family. As soon as Gao Min was born, she became the only "golden daughter" of Gaos thought. Therefore, at home, both parents, uncles and grandfathers love Gao Min very much.
She had Zigong's first children's tricycle when she was very young. She had a bike when she was in the first grade of primary school. At that time, owning a bicycle was a luxury for adults, not to mention a child who had just entered the first grade.
Gao Min also knows that receiving a good education will bring more happiness. Although Gao Min is very young, her parents will respect her ideas. Her parents know the importance of good health, so they also pay great attention to exercising Gao Min's physical fitness.
Gao Min can have extremely high sports talent and strong physique, which is closely related to family reasons. Gao Min's father likes sports very much. When I was young, I won the junior swimming champion and held the highest record in Chongqing. Later, I was a striker of the football team in college. Therefore, Gao Min loves sports as much as his father.
Gao Min learned to swim when he was 5 years old, and often participated in various competitive competitions with his father, which greatly stimulated Gao Min's fighting capacity and self-motivation for sports. Six-year-old Gao Min was selected for the gymnastics team. She hoped that her daughter's father who was engaged in sports would naturally be very happy, but Gao Min was not happy because she didn't like gymnastics, and her favorite sport in her heart was water sports.
After Gao Min told his father what he thought, as a father, he was naturally willing to respect his daughter's choice, so Gao Min quit the gymnastics class.
When Gao Min was 9 years old, the school opened a new swimming class. Gao Min, who loves swimming, is naturally very serious in class. Swimming is much better than other students. However, Gao Min happened to be attracted by diving coach Yang Qiang. He saw at a glance that Gao Min was a good prospect.
The arrival of Yang Qiang, however, was not so hasty to directly recognize a person. Talent is a good thing, but he also wanted to see other characteristics of children, because the sports situation in China was not optimistic at that time. The country needed not only talented athletes, but also athletes with perseverance and courage.
Therefore, coach Yang Qiang came to cast the net. There are hundreds of children selected for the first time. He used the elimination mechanism to leave the best one. After a period of "devil training", there were only dozens and hundreds of children left, and time passed slowly. Gao Min, who was addicted to her own training, found that she was the only one among hundreds of people until the last day.
198 1 At the beginning of the year, 10-year-old Gao Min was officially selected as a professional diving team in Sichuan Province. Parents who know the news unconditionally support their daughters' wishes and dreams.
1984, Gao Min began to train springboard diving. At first, she challenged three difficult movements of 10 meter platform. Among all the divers at that time, only one or two people could complete these three difficult movements. Gao Min's insistence on sports was by no means just talk. She was particularly hard on herself and made a strict training plan. Finally, she learned these three movements. With her strong willpower and that momentum, she is now.
1985, Gao Min entered the national training team. From then on, an era belonging to China diving team opened, a "myth" opened by Gao Min. From 65438 to 0986, Gao Min participated in the 5th World Swimming Championships and won the women's three-meter platform championship. Together with her teammates, she won the women's team championship.
At this time, 14-year-old Gao Min received news that the national team wanted her to go to Beijing for training. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, with longing and anxiety, she embarked on a journey alone and got on the train to Beijing. However, it was with this starting point that she became the later "diving queen" Gao Min in the national team.
During the training of the national team, Gao Min also ushered in the golden development stage of his youth. At that time, Gao Min's height grew to 1.62 meters, and her weight was gradually increasing, approaching 100 or more. At this time, she realized the crisis.
For a diver, once her weight changes greatly, exceeding 100 kg, her diving skills will be greatly reduced, her posture will become strange, her bones will be easily deformed, and in serious cases, it will easily bring injuries.
Gao Min will never allow herself to make such a mistake. She immediately became alert and lost weight in high-intensity training, keeping her weight at around 95 kg. Her goal is to win the championship, stand on the international stage, let China's national anthem ring and the five-star red flag fly in the wind.
1988, the 24th Olympic Games was held in Seoul, South Korea. This is the first Olympic Games that Gao Min participated in, and it is also the arrival of her glorious moment. She won the women's 3m platform championship in one fell swoop, and she won the first gold medal in China diving, which ushered in the dawn of the China diving team.
After 1988 and 1989- 1992, Gao Min participated in many Asian Games and World Diving Cup, and won all the gold medals in major stadiums without exception, which became an unbeaten "myth". In the 25th Olympic Games from 65438 to 0992, Gao Min was injured. Nevertheless, she won the women's 3m springboard championship again.
Suffering from injuries, she chose a perfect ending, and her diving career ended in this competition. At the age of 22, she chose to retire. This year, she walked barefoot to the highest podium of the Olympic Games. She really felt the happiness of standing on the top of the world and said goodbye to the stadium with tears.
During Gao Min's sports career, she won more than 70 gold medals, including 1 1 world champion and two Olympic champions. 14 has 70 gold medals. In this way, she will take part in five major competitions on average a year. It seems that winning a gold medal is "playing" for her. A gold medal is the dream of many athletes, not to mention more than 70. The athletes competing with her said that her appearance would make her opponents feel desperate.
In the summer of 20021,the diving teenager Quan Hongchan became an instant hit, once again taking China's diving "dream team" to the peak. The girl Quan Hongchan won two gold medals in one fell swoop at the Tokyo Olympic Games and became the darling of media traffic for a time.
In this regard, Gao Min said on the social platform that it is necessary to treat the success of Quanhongchan rationally. 14-year-old quan hongchan is in a vigorous growth period, and there will be many variables and challenges in the future.
Today's debut is the peak. One day in the future, if she makes a mistake, the media will trample on it and ignore it. So she called on everyone not to pursue athletes too much, but to give them a relatively quiet environment so as not to bring them invisible pressure.
Gao Min also said that seeing this teenager's whole body red is like seeing his former self. As an experienced person, Gao Min is particularly appreciative of this rare and elusive talent. At the moment when everyone is pursuing the glory of this teenager, only Gao Min is thinking about her future hardships.
Although Gao Min retired from sports, she always missed all the sports news. She also hopes that the glory of China's diving "dream team" will never die.