1996-14 Li Zijun was born in Changchun City, Jilin Province!
Jilin Changchun is a famous ice and snow city in China, so many winter sports events are very common in Changchun, such as ice skating, which almost every Changchun child has experienced when he was a child.
When Li Zijun went out to play with her mother when she was young, she saw many children spinning and sliding on the ice. She also wanted to play with them very much.
So Li Zijun told her mother that she also wanted to "play" the song. It just so happened that a friend of Li Zijun's mother was practicing figure skating . In this way, Li Zijun was taken to the figure skating training ground by her mother.
At the age of 4, Li Zijun began to learn the simplest basic movements of figure skating under the guidance of his coach. What Li Zijun's mother did not expect was that her daughter was very talented in figure skating.
There are many difficult movements, and other children may have to practice them many times before they can learn them, and Li Zijun can be very proficient in practicing them once or twice.
Originally, Li Zijun's mother sent Li Zijun to practice figure skating just to make her daughter's childhood life richer, but she didn't expect that her daughter was so talented in figure skating. She gradually had the idea of cultivating her daughter into a professional figure skater in her heart.
In this way, Li Zijun's mother sent Li Zijun to the Changchun Sports School at that time (now Changchun Winter Sports Management Center), and studied under Tian Niping, and officially started the professional skating journey.
Li Zijun's inspirational mentor Tian Niping recalled that she had only trained with three children at the time. Li Zijun had already shown high talent when she was 5 years old. "In some difficult jumping movements, Li Zijun fell the least the number of times, and she could complete the movements very well almost every time."
Li Zijun practiced with Tian Niping for about a year at Changchun Sports School and participated in the Jilin Youth Figure Skating Competition. It was this competition that changed the life trajectory of Li Zijun and her whole family.
At that time, Li Zijun was only 5 years old, so she participated in the Ding Group competition. The day before the competition, she had just learned "Pull ice in the stage for a week" and ended up doing very well in the competition. More than 10 other children in the competition also made mistakes, so Li Zijun naturally successfully won the championship.
After winning this championship, Li Zijun entered Jilin Provincial Sports School with the support of her parents, learning figure skating while learning cultural courses.
After Li Zijun entered Jilin Provincial Sports School to start practicing figure skating professionally, her mother Li Chunyan quit her job to take care of her daughter's life and training.
Because Li Zijun was still in school at that time, Li Chunyan usually woke Li Zijun at four or five in the morning, and then rushed to school with her back.
At noon, Li Chunyan took the food prepared at home to pick up Li Zijun and asked Li Zijun to eat on the way to the training hall. After the training, Li Chunyan took Li Zijun back to school and went to school to train after school in the evening. Generally, it was basically over 9:00 to ten o'clock when you got home.
Even in such a difficult environment, Li Zijun never proposed to give up. Although Li Zijun often sat on the sofa and didn't want to move when she got home, she never said that training was hard or no longer practiced. The next day her mother asked her to train, and she still enjoyed it.
Figure skating is a competitive sports event with a very long period and requires endurance to persist. If Li Zijun wants to achieve outstanding results, it is not enough to rely solely on extraordinary talent, but also requires acquired diligence and hard work.
In addition to talent and hard work, it naturally requires certain funds. After all, "practice of sports is very expensive." It is understood that Li Zijun trained an ice skate for at least three to four thousand yuan. In addition to the costs incurred by going out for competitions, meals, and daily training, Li Zijun's growth process not only has to endure hardships, but also has a very "bursary".
Li Zijun was a little introverted when she was a child, but after practicing figure skating and achieving some results, she not only became talkative, but also became more confident.
In 2006, after 10-year-old Li Zijun won the Youth Group B championship in the National Figure Skating Championships, when CCTV reporters interviewed Li Zijun, Li Zijun said this: "I enjoyed the competition process very much, and I really enjoyed it. Every successful jump can make me feel satisfied with success. No matter whether I can get on the podium or not, I like to participate in the competition and I like that process."
Li Zijun, a young man, said it very official. At that time, CCTV reporters joked that Li Zijun would be a sports reporter when he grew up, and Li Zijun returned: When I grow up, I will go to you.
After training in the provincial sports school for several years, in 2007, 11-year-old Li Zijun won the Youth Group Championship at the National Figure Skating Championships, and she also began to gain some fame in China.
This year, in order to enhance the reserve force of figure skating, the General Administration of Sports of China decided to select a group of seasonal athletes from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics from China to the United States to go to the United States to train with Chen Lu's mentors Li Mingzhu . Li Zijun and Geng Bingwa from Heilongjiang Zhang Kexin and others were selected for this "BABY plan".
In this way, Li Zijun became one of the participants in the "On Overseas Study Program". She returned to China after training with Coach Li Mingzhu for a year or two in the United States.
In 2009, Li Zijun won silver medals in National Games and the National Championships, and both lost to the then "figure skating sister" Liu Yan with a slight advantage.
But until this time, Li Zijun was not yet included in the division (not registered with the provincial and national teams). She was not officially included in the division after the National Games and became a formal athlete in Jilin Province.
The reason for this is because Li Zijun is young. Even when she officially became an athlete in Jilin Province in 2009, she was only 13 years old. The Winter Sports Center of Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau was admitted to her exceptionally. In the words of the Winter Sports Center of Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau: "If you don't join the team, such good talents will be lost."
In 2010, Li Mingzhu returned to China to coach, and three young players including Li Zijun also began their long-term training life in Beijing. In the national team, Li Mingzhu recruited five young players of this age group, and only Li Zijun is from Jilin Province.
In order to take care of Li Zijun, his mother Li Chunyan also came to Beijing. Because the national team has been training in Beijing all year round, Li Chunyan rented a room next to the national team's dormitory to take care of Li Zijun's life and also tutored Li Zijun's cultural courses.
At that time, the national team trained on ice twice a day and once on land. They only arranged an English class for the team members on weekends, so the cultural course knowledge of these team members was generally only for their parents to help tutor.
In addition to taking care of her daughter and helping her daughter with cultural lessons, Li Chunyan is also very concerned about her daughter's competition and training.
In order to understand Li Zijun's performance and status in the competition, Li Chunyan has almost never missed Li Zijun's training class, which also made Li Chunyan a famous "expert" in the national team's family group.
Almost every time after the competition, Li Chunyan can predict Li Zijun's results. What is even more touching is that in order to understand the English transcript and order book after the competition, Li Chunyan took time to participate in the tutoring class to learn English, and she is also the oldest student in the tutoring class.
Li Chunyan has been taking care of her daughter like this. Li Zijun's father can only live silently in Changchun alone. It is difficult to see his wife, and he has no complaints and silently contributes to them. It may be this kind of family that allows Li Zijun to immerse himself in the training competition without thinking about anything.
In April 2010, Li Zijun won the first adult group championship in her career in Changchun - surpassing Liu Yan to win the 2009/2010 National Championship Championship.
In the 2010/2011 season, Li Zijun had just met the age and could participate in the national youth group competition. So she won the third and fourth place in the Austrian and Czech stations respectively. She won the bronze medal in the year-end finals without being favored. This result also made Li Zijun's mentor overjoyed.
A week after winning this bronze medal, Li Zijun easily won the National Figure Skating Championships held in Qiqihar . The day before the competition was her 14th birthday. Li Zijun gave herself a birthday gift with another championship.
It was also at that time that Li Zijun became the youngest national sportsman among active athletes in Jilin Province, and was also the youngest athlete to get a formal salary.
Although the results are dazzling, Li Zijun has made more efforts. Winter events have a certain seasonality, and the competitions are usually held from October to April of the following year.
But even Li Zijun has to participate in the national team training camp in the offseason. By 2010, she had not spent the Spring Festival at home for three years. In this regard, she could only turn her longing for her hometown into motivation and work hard in the competition.
With the victory over "No. 1 Sister" Liu Yan in 2010, Li Zijun officially "taken over" the Chinese women's singles, opening up the era that belonged to her.
2012 12th Winter Games, Li Zijun won three gold medals alone, achieving the Grand Slam of the domestic competition, and was therefore known as the "Star of Hope".
In an interview, Li Zijun said: "I feel very happy after so many years of hard work. I really want to thank my hometown for the support and the encouragement from my parents all the time."
On the second day of participating in the Winter Games, Li Zijun set off for Austria to prepare to participate in Winter Youth Olympic Games held in Innsbruck, Austria, and finally won the third place.
In 2014, 18-year-old Li Zijun was awarded the title of international sports champion by the General Administration of Sports. However, she did not perform well at the Sochi Winter Olympics this year. In fact, this is normal. After all, China's women's figure skating is far from the world's strong teams.
And in the 13th Winter Games two years later, Li Zijun won the women's single skating short program champion and women's singles free skating champion, which also proved her strength.
Although Li Zijun has absolute dominance in the women's singles figure skating in China, because the winter events are less popular, she is not that famous in China.
However, because of her beautiful appearance and having had scandals with several well-known athletes, Li Zijun has indeed gained a lot of popularity.
The first person who has a scandal with Li Zijun is the Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu . He has no need to say more about his influence in the whole world and China.
In 2014, Li Zijun shared an intimate photo of himself and Yuzuru Hanyu on his personal social media. At that time, many people thought the two were in love, so they commented: "I don't deserve it."
Because of the great impact, Li Zijun later updated the updates, but not only did she not explain the relationship between the two, but also said at the end that Yuzuru Hanyu asked her to tell everyone, "Don't worry, he is very good now."
This statement deepened everyone's suspicion about the two's relationship. Later, it was rumored on the Internet that Yuzuru Hanyu personally admitted that they were in love (the editor did not find relevant information).
The second athlete who had an affair with Li Zijun was Chinese table tennis player Fan Zhendong. Because the two were of the same age, many people were still optimistic about the two at that time.
The two people were rumored to have a scandal in 2016. At that time, Li Zijun won two gold medals at the Winter Games, while Fan Zhendong was the P card holder of the Chinese men's table tennis team at the Rio Olympics , and they were both very popular.
At that time, Fan Zhendong always liked to leave messages under Li Zijun's social media, and called Li Zijun "beautiful sister". Every time Li Zijun updates social media, Fan Zhendong almost always comments at the first time, which also made many people suspect that Fan Zhendong was particularly concerned about Li Zijun.
In addition to Fan Zhendong always commenting on Li Zijun's social media, Li Zijun often comes to Fan Zhendong's social media to "flirt with each other". At that time, netizens felt that they were watching the two fall in love publicly.
Not only that, because Fan Zhendong's head coach Wang Hao is also from Jilin. Once again, he met Li Zijun when he participated in an event in Jilin and posted a photo of the two on social media.
This also brought the scandal between Li Zijun and Fan Zhendong to the peak, because many people think that Wang Hao was going to "propose marriage" for Fan Zhendong, but after that, the scandal between the two plummeted.
The reason is that Fan Zhendong uninstalled Weibo . Many people speculated that Li Zijun rejected Fan Zhendong, which caused Fan Zhendong to uninstall Weibo. Of course, according to Fan Zhendong's own words, it was because the Internet was too hostile and he did not want to be affected.
Li Zijun announced his retirement in 2017 and has rarely updated social media since then. In August 2021, Li Zijun announced the news of her dating on social media. In November, she posted the marriage certificate , and posted a big belly photo on June 1, 2022.
It is also at this point that the scandals about Li Zijun, Yuzuru Hanyu and Fan Zhendong have begun to disappear. Now, the 26-year-old Li Zijun has officially entered the next stage of life and has begun to truly enjoy life!
